{"id":23209,"date":"2026-05-23T09:37:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T07:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/final-frontier-for-meds-uk-startup-sends-drug-making-into-space\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T09:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T07:37:37","slug":"final-frontier-for-meds-uk-startup-sends-drug-making-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/final-frontier-for-meds-uk-startup-sends-drug-making-into-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Final frontier for meds? UK startup sends drug-making into space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BioOrbit hopes drug-crystallisation technology will lead to self-injected cancer treatment that could save millions<\/p>\n<p>Onboard a SpaceX flight last week was a remarkable piece of cargo \u2013 a hi-tech box destined for the International Space Station to grow ultra-pure protein crystals, with the aim of producing self-injected cancer drugs.<\/p>\n<p>A British startup, BioOrbit, has developed the drug-crystallisation technology at its labs in London and launched Box-E, a compact unit the size of a microwave, on the 15 May rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/23\/meds-uk-startup-drug-making-space-bioorbit-cancer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/146102ed0b799d026345e83d197e9783446b8bcf\/300_0_6880_5504\/master\/6880.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7020cbae33d6ade30fad9a4292e81ce7\" title=\"Final frontier for meds? UK startup sends drug-making into space\" \/>BioOrbit hopes drug-crystallisation technology will lead to self-injected cancer treatment that could save millions<br \/>\nOnboard a SpaceX flight last week was a remarkable piece of cargo \u2013 a hi-tech box destined for the International Space Station to grow ultra-pure protein crystals, with the aim of producing self-injected cancer drugs.<br \/>\nA British startup, BioOrbit, has developed the drug-crystallisation technology at its labs in London and launched Box-E, a compact unit the size of a microwave, on the 15 May rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BioOrbit hopes drug-crystallisation technology will lead to self-injected cancer treatment that could save millions Onboard a SpaceX flight last week was a remarkable piece of cargo \u2013 a hi-tech box destined for the International Space Station to grow ultra-pure protein crystals, with the aim of producing self-injected cancer drugs. A British startup, BioOrbit, has developed &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/final-frontier-for-meds-uk-startup-sends-drug-making-into-space\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Final frontier for meds? UK startup sends drug-making into space<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}