The New Pharma Frontier: Could Drugs Made in Space Help You Live Longer?

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The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In the future, the drugs helping you live healthier, happier and longer may have components manufactured in space. In this conversation with WSJ’s Danny Lewis from the Future of Everything Festival in May, Eric Lasker, an executive at Varda Space Industries, and Sita Sonty, former CEO of Space Tango, discuss the advantages and limitations of space manufacturing and how it can benefit pharmaceutical development. What do you think about the show? Let us know on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or email us: [email protected] Sign up for the WSJ's free The Future of Everything newsletter. Further reading: Is Space the Next Manufacturing Frontier? Varda Hopes New Research Draws More Drugmakers to Space Factories How Research in Space Helps Doctors Treat People on Earth Space Manufacturing: Building an Economy Beyond Earth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.1	Where do the medicines people use every day to live longer healthier lives come from. If you said a laboratory,
0:26.2	well yeah that's a really good answer, but in the future the components in cutting-edge
0:32.0	drugs may not be made on Earth.
0:35.0	If you want things to actually bind together in a very specific way, you have to create
0:39.7	surface tension among them, and in a microgravity environment you can control it. That's
0:44.9	Sita Santi, the former CEO of orbital manufacturing company Space Tanko that
0:50.1	makes miniature labs for research on the International Space Station.
0:54.3	We spoke back in May at the W.S.J's Future of Everything Festival,
0:58.0	along with Eric Lasker, an executive at another company, Varda Space Industries, that's working on satellites that can make
1:04.7	pharmaceutical components while in orbit around the Earth.
1:08.4	In 10 years time, my big hope is that we have drugs from space in patient populations, so we're actually bringing the benefits of microgravity and to help people back down here.
1:17.5	From the Wall Street Journal, this is the future of everything.
1:20.7	I'm Danny Lewis.
1:22.4	Today, we're bringing you a conversation about where space manufacturing is going and how it could help make better medicine.
1:29.0	That's after the break. And now here's my conversation with Varda Space Industries Executive Eric Lasker and former
1:48.7	Space Tango CEO Cita Santi from the Future of Everything Festival in May.
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