Sachi Bioworks is working on rapid, low-cost drug discovery in space.
Created: 2023-07-19
Updated: 2024-10-02
Company - Sachi Bioworks
Product/Service
- Classification
- In-Space Manufacturing
- Category
- In-Space Manufacturing
- Fields
- Biotech
Biological Research
Medicine and Drugs
- Status
- Demonstrated
- First launch
- 2023
Sachi Bio's Research into Exploring Brain Aging in Space flies on SpaceX CRS-29, 2023-11-10.
- Leveraging Sachi Bio's Nanoligomer technology that has demonstrated excellent transport behavior and gene targeting capability, and building on Sachi Bio's body of work on human brain organoids, as well as, animal disease models of neurological diseases, we are embarking on our maiden Space flight to evaluate if the microgravity environment can be used as an approach to accelerate drug discovery.
- Sachi Bio is the first pharmaceutical company in the world to test RNA therapeutics, specifically, its proprietary therapeutic called NanoligomersTM, in space.