#biologics

#biologics

Hilary Hodge suffers from severe allergic asthma. But in 2012, she saw hope in biologic medication. There was one catch: She was living in the United States at the time, and biologics would cost her $36,000 a year. A few years later, she moved to Algiers, France, with her husband. Across the pond, that same medical treatment was 12 times cheaper.

Varda Space has raised $187 million to build a lab for producing pharmaceutical components in space, aiming to use zero gravity for crystallization of biologics.