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Jessica Zeitz writes an article published in Asgardia The Space Nation that discusses the lab’s work titled, “Lettuce could be used to make drugs for the first Mars settlers.”

Veronika Szentpétery-Kessler covers the lab’s research in an article published by MIT Technology Review (German edition) titled, “Green pharmacy for space.”

John Cumbers covers the lab’s research involvement in an article published by Forbes titled, “NASA is quietly funding this project to understand how synthetic biology can support life in space.”

Allie Nawrat of Drug Discovery Today covers the lab research in an article on the newly funded TRISH awards on ‘just-in-time’ medication for space titled, “How astronauts will make their own drugs in space”

NASA, Technology.org published an article based on an interview with Dr. McDonald titled, “Instead of high-tech hardware, plants might one day produce medicines on Mars.”

Congrats to Kiro on a great oral presentation at Food Innovation and Engineering conference!

Karen and Matt, joined by Kelly Wetmore of UC Berkeley and Paul Kasuma of Utah State University, represented the Center for Utilization of Biological Engineering in Space (CUBES) in Washington D.C. for NASA’s STRG Tech Day on the Hill. Special Read More …

Congrats to Mary on a great poster at the 2019nSpace Travel: Adaptive Research and Technologies conference in Boston.

Korn gave an oral presentation at AIChE 2019 with the title “Simplified Lab Scale and Pilot Scale Bioreactor Process for Recombinant Butyrylcholinesterase Production in Transgenic Rice Cell Suspension Cultures” on November 13, 2019. Congrats, Korn!

The group took a break from the lab and spent some nice time at the campus billiards hall!