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[NIAC 2023] On-Demand Pharmacy for Space Missions

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English - May 04, 2023 17:00 - 57 minutes - 79.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 238 ratings
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Space missions will become longer. It will inevitably become impossible to pack every medication you need and take it from Earth. This means that we'll need a way to produce them in space. Which is the goal of the NIAC award developed by Dr Lynn Rothschild.
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00:00 Intro
02:15 Printing medicine in space
17:17 Evolution VS Engineering in Biology
36:30 Risks involved
50:50 What's next for the NIAC grant
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Space missions will become longer. It will inevitably become impossible to pack every medication you need and take it from Earth. This means that we'll need a way to produce them in space. Which is the goal of the NIAC award developed by Dr Lynn Rothschild.

🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday

More about the NIAC award:

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2023/Astropharmacy/

00:00 Intro

02:15 Printing medicine in space

17:17 Evolution VS Engineering in Biology

36:30 Risks involved

50:50 What's next for the NIAC grant

📺 VIDEO VERSION

https://youtu.be/jvHEKqrdP9k

📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER

Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.

Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter

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Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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