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NASA initiates out-of-this-world drug discovery

Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have come up with idea of launching fungi into space to create new medicine

NASA initiates out-of-this-world drug discovery
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Astronauts on drugs? With one member of the EPM editorial team having a particular fondness for Tim Peake, we were particularly interested to read about events taking place on the International Space Station (ISS)

It’s one thing keeping abreast of the latest developments in the pharmaceutical sector on earth so to read that researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have come up with idea of launching fungi into space to create new medicine, is incredibly exciting.

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