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Created: 2022-09-03
Updated: 2023-02-18
Company - Merck Research Laboratories
Product/Service
- Classification
- In-Space Manufacturing
- Category
- In-Space Manufacturing
- Fields
- Pharmaceutical
Medicine and Drugs
- Status
- Demonstrated
- First launch
- 2014
The first experiment on the space station yielded crystals larger than those that could be grown on the ground, which was promising. Merck continued space-based protein crystallization experiments on 10 separate shuttle flights. Based on these previous findings, Paul Reichert, chemistry research fellow at Merck, expects to grow uniform suspensions of 5-micron crystals without impurities that can develop on Earth.