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British Space Startup Launches Longevity Lab Into Orbit
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British startup Mass Balance has launched an autonomous laboratory into orbit to study disordered proteins in micro-gravity. The experiment aims to generate high-quality data to improve life science models, potentially aiding research into age-related diseases like Alzheimer's.
A British startup just launched self-run chemical experiments into orbit, in the hopes zero-gravity data might shine a light on a group of disease-causing proteins too difficult to study on Earth. But first they need to check their autonomous laboratory will work in space.
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