[NIAC 2023] On-Demand Pharmacy for Space Missions

Published: May 4, 2023, 5 p.m.

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
\n02:15 Printing medicine in space
\n17:17 Evolution VS Engineering in Biology
\n36:30 Risks involved
\n50:50 What's next for the NIAC grant

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