ASTRONAUTS MAY GROW MEDICINES: UC SAN DIEGO TESTS SPACE PHARMA
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More than half the medicines stocked on the ISS expire within three years, a serious problem for a Mars mission lasting around 400 days. A new University of California San Diego study offers a fix: grow the drugs on board.
According to Times of India, More than half the medicines stocked on the ISS expire within three years, a serious problem for a Mars mission lasting around 400 days.
The available RSS description adds: A new University of California San Diego study offers a fix: grow the drugs on board.
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- Times of India: More than half the medicines stocked on the ISS expire within three years, a serious problem for a Mars mission lasting around 400 days.
- Times of India: A new University of California San Diego study offers a fix: grow the drugs on board.
- Times of India: Researchers cultivated cowpea mosaic virus, a cancer-fighting plant virus, on tobacco-relative and black-eyed pea plants in simulated microgravity, then extracted it without killing the plant.
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