In the zero gravity of space, we could manufacture in 30 days lifesaving medicines it would take 30 years to make on Earth.

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If we all had to grow our own crops, make our own clothes, and manufacture our own medicines, we would never enjoy the standards of living we now enjoy.

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Instead of medicines made from small, easy-to-manufacture molecules, biotech drugs were proteins or antibodies--big messy molecules of the kind found in our bodies.

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