Forming the components for producing artificial blood for animals🩸

In addition to showing promise in drug development, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA’s) other work on crystallizing proteins in microgravity inspired development of an artificial animal albumin.

Albumin is the most abundant protein in blood but is difficult to crystallize on Earth.

Researchers used the space station to crystalize albumin from cats and dogs to better understand the structures of these proteins and how they are formed.

Veterinarians in animal hospitals have trouble providing blood transfusion treatments since there aren’t large stores of donated animal blood, an issue that could be positively impacted through potential application of this work to veterinary medicine.

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