Could Launching Tumors Into Space Help Medicine Beat Cancer?

Source: International Business Times

A new experiment is seeking to validate whether living cancer samples can be prepared, operated, monitored, and recovered under flight conditions without crew intervention in their standardized format for pharma-grade preclinical research. AFP Somewhere over the Atlantic this month, a small payload roughly the size of an oat milk carton is preparing to leave Earth. Inside it are living cancer cells, a self-contained laboratory, and a bet that one of medicine's oldest problems might finally yield to one of its newest tools: the absence of gravity.