NASA Report on Space Station Drug Microencapsulation Research
NASA has released a report on their investigations into microencapsulation of targeted cancer drugs. This research was conducted in space, on the International Space Station. Here’s a link (pdf) to the full NASA ISS research report. And here’s a blub from the press release:
“Another experiment produced a potential medical advance, demonstrating a new and powerful method for delivering drugs to targets in the human body. Microgravity research on the station was vital to development of miniature, liquid-filled balloons the size of blood cells that can deliver medicine directly to cancer cells. The research was conducted for the Microencapsulation Electrostatic Processing System experiment.”