At 6:05 p.m. EDT on Friday, May 15, a Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral ...

The space startup is collaborating with United Therapeutics Corporation to manufacture commercial drugs in orbit.

With regularly scheduled restocks, the astronauts don’t have to worry as much about issues like shelf life. That means that ...

United Therapeutics Corp. is working with Varda Space Industries Inc. to explore the use of microgravity in creating drugs ...

NASA has enabled scientists to study the impact of microgravity on drug development for decades, beginning with the Space ...

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Varda Space Industries has signed its first major agreement with a pharmaceutical company to develop improved drugs in microgravity.

This is the first commercial path to products made in space,” says Michael Reilly, Varda’s chief strategy officer. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. an astronaut floats in space beside a superimposed graphic of a protein Scientists have discovered how living cells may respond ...

As space travel gains traction and astronauts spend increasing amounts of time in space, studying its effects on health has become increasingly critical. Is space travel truly safe? Far from ...