Searching for Drugs to fight Slide 9 of 10 BioServe Space Technologies and Chiron Inc. have conducted several space experiments. The resulting drugs will not only counter bone loss on Earth but will also aid long term human spaceflight. The yellow areas show bone growth that occurred in space. Osteoporosis decreases bone mass resulting in fragile bones which can break easily. This changes is mimicked and accelerated in the space environment.
Space is used to test candidate drugs, assisting the development of new drugs.