Comments on: Pharmaceutical company to use Varda’s capsules to manufacture heart drugs in space https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/pharmaceutical-company-to-use-vardas-capsules-to-manufacture-heart-drugs-in-space/ Thu, 14 May 2026 16:42:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/pharmaceutical-company-to-use-vardas-capsules-to-manufacture-heart-drugs-in-space/#comment-1631801 Thu, 14 May 2026 16:42:59 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=123709#comment-1631801 “Varda Space Industries has not publicly named a specific heart drug as its current manufacturing target in space, but its work is focused on crystallizing pharmaceuticals.”

“The company’s most recent high-profile success was crystallizing the HIV drug Ritonavir in orbit, which demonstrated the potential of microgravity to produce drug crystals with superior uniformity and novel polymorphs.”

–>The key word here is “polymorphs.”

“In crystallography, polymorphism is the phenomenon where a compound or element can crystallize into more than one crystal structure. These different solid forms are called polymorphs, and they share the same chemical composition but differ in the arrangement of atoms, molecules, or ions in the crystal lattice. Polymorphs are not chemically different substances; they are the same molecule or element in different solid arrangements, and result in different pharmaceutical effects.”

“Crystal Polymorphism”
Veritasium (April, 2026)
https://youtu.be/ksn5yrsC3Wg
33:24

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