Lyophilization can help create food for space travel, new medicines for cancer

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safely living both during and afterward are differing ideas. The latter is the research focus of Alina Alexeenko.

"We know how to get to space, but that's not the same as knowing how to survive there," said Alexeenko, a Purdue professor in aeronautics and astronautics. "If we are to do a colony on Mars, we're not going to send pills or a pharmaceutical factory. There won't be a CVS on Mars."

Source https://phys.org/news/2019-04-lyophilization-food-space-medicines-cancer.html