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Article: Medicines from space. (laboratory experiments aboard the space shuttle) (includes related article)
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- FDA Consumer
- Article date:
- September 1, 1993
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When FDA Consumer last looked to the skies 10 years ago, the "out of this world" medical prospects focused on manufacturing scarce products like interferon and pancreatic beta cells in an environment virtually free of gravity ("Why Drugs Will Be Made in Space," November 1983 FDA Consumer).
McDonnell Douglas Corporation, Ortho Pharmaceuticals, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration were cooperating in the early 1980s on continuous flow electrophoresis experiments. This was a process of separating biological materials from preservative solutions to produce erythropoietin, a hormone important for stimulating human red blood cell production, more ...