Drugs in Space!
Space: the radical frontier.
He brags, he’s biased, he’s a billionaire. Investor Thomas Pickens III, who also manages a not-tiny nanotech fund, wants to help scientists study in space. Or rather, wants us to help him help them. When NASA funding slows down, Pickens hopes Big Pharma will step in. We’ve already got the station, so using it for research in disease etiology and treatment could be a brilliant project. Why? Because of differences in physical conditions, research in space holds tremendous promise. For example, on Mir, scientists were able to grow a protein crystal 32 times the size of a protein crystal on earth. Such dramatically improved resolution of a protein’s structure translates to a faster path to potentially life-saving drugs that many people need.
Related reading: if you don’t know about the fascinating nanotech developments that could save, oh, millions of people in the very near future, you might want to read this vintage ‘bolt.
(Photo via a guy who really does not like Tom Cruise.)
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