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From: rjnoe@riccb.UUCP (Roger J. Noe)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Re: spinoffs
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Date: Wed, 27-Nov-85 09:17:52 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 27 09:17:52 1985
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> > The big advance coming now is direct manufacture in space.
> 
> I am skeptical.  There is not one product yet identified that is a good
> bet for large scale space manufacturing.  What about the drugs purified
> with continuous flow electrophoresis?  Don't bet on them: drugs can
> be purified on earth using other techniques (for example, by affinity
> chromatography in columns filled with monoclonal antibodies).

I think the productivity of the CFES experiments has been something like
four HUNDRED times that on Earth and may go higher.  Also, what about the
monodisperse latex reactor experiments with the uniform spheres?  Can
THAT be done on Earth?
--
Roger Noe