Outer Space Is The Place For Manufacturing At-Home Cancer Drugs, Startup Demonstrates With Crystal Technolgoy

Outer Space Is The Place For Manufacturing At-Home Cancer Drugs, Startup Demonstrates With Crystal Technolgoy

Outer Space Is The Place For Manufacturing At-Home Cancer Drugs, Startup Demonstrates With Crystal Technolgoy Crystals formed in microgravity – credit, JAXA A UK startup is designing new versions of established cancer drugs to be used routinely at home, saving the patient time and money, as well as floor space in the hospital’s cancer ward. The only thing is the startup’s manufacturing plant requires rather unique and limited real estate: the International Space Station. BioOrbit believes that space is the final frontier of drug manufacturing, because of the unique properties that can be achieved while synthesizing drugs in microgravity. A key factor of at-home cancer drugs would be turning their compounds into more shelf-stable crystal structures. This would allow the drugs to go from being delivered intravenously with a syringe (IV) to an easier, at-home injection method like an subcutaneous epi-pen or Ozempic. Put in extreme simplicity, the Earth’s gravity interferes with crystal growth …