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Spinoff story
Protein Innovations Advance Drug Treatments, Skin Care
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
While at Marshall Space Flight Center, Dan Carter and colleagues mapped the atomic structure of albumin, an important blood protein, for the first time. Carter formed New Century Pharmaceuticals of Huntsville, Alabama, to build on this achievement, resulting in new skin care products and platforms for cancer treatment.