{"id":875165,"date":"2026-08-29T00:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T00:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/875165\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T00:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T00:16:11","slug":"u-of-l-lab-collaborates-with-canadian-space-agency-on-extraterrestrial-biomanufacturing-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/875165\/","title":{"rendered":"U of L lab collaborates with Canadian Space Agency on extraterrestrial biomanufacturing project"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Willi-Lab \u2014 (L to R) Dr. Jessica Willi, Roza Gabdullina, Valeria Angulo Villa. Payload \u2014 The prototype payload that was sent into the stratosphere. (Image Credit: University of Lethbridge)<\/p>\n

By LNN Staff<\/p>\n

STRATOS ICARUS 2026 campaign<\/p>\n

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University of Lethbridge researchers are collaborating with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to prototype extraterrestrial biomanufacturing (ET-bio), a concept that supports human space exploration and could also benefit Canadians living in remote areas on Earth.<\/p>\n

When humans eventually settle on the moon or Mars, ULethbridge officials ask, what medicines, biomaterials and vitamins will they need? And what if they can make those things on demand? <\/p>\n

Officials say the ULethbridge Willi Lab<\/a>, led by Dr. Jessica Willi (chemistry and biochemistry), was tasked with supplying biochemical reactions to the CSA for a recent launch that sent payloads into the stratosphere.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBiochemical reactions can be freeze-dried, sent to space, and then programmed later to make anything encoded on DNA,\u201d says Willi.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Willi-Lab \u2014 (L to R) Dr. Jessica Willi, Roza Gabdullina, Valeria Angulo Villa. Payload \u2014 The prototype payload…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-875165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}