Protein crystals form in microgravity in the space station’s Kibo Module. Credits: JAXA For more than two decades, the International Space Station has provided a platform for growing and studying ...

For more than two decades, the International Space Station has provided a platform for growing and studying protein crystals. In the early days of microgravity research, scientists discovered that ...

The International Space Station suspended over planet Earth and against the backdrop of the inky universe. The International Space Station suspended over planet Earth, as photographed by the ...

For those outside the chemistry cognoscenti, the announcement might have seemed little more than researchers patting each other on the back. But the question of protein folding had plagued scientists ...

Microbes designed to make edible proteins in space could significantly bolster the wider precision fermentation industry, paving the way for more environmentally-friendly food. Scientists from ...