Tag Archive for: space biotech

Can in‑space manufacturing help cancer patients take complex medicines at home? For a technology that aims to do just that, UK‑based BioOrbit has just raised £9.8m (around €11.3m) – the “world’s largest” seed round of for in‑space manufacturing.

It's still a long way to spaceship gardens like the one in this image. Source: AI.

A team led by Imperial College London has launched a miniature lab into Earth orbit to test the production of edible proteins in space with the help of yeast-based biotech.