Biotechnological research on ISS Russian Segment
Experiment Vaktsina-K
Objective:
Creation of new vaccines against dangerous virous diseases, development of the national vaccine against AIDS.
Task:
Development tests of the crystallization procedure and production of the crystals of protein-candidate for vaccine against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) under microgravity conditions.
Science Hardware Used :
Experiment Results:
The crystals grown under space flight conditions in multipurpose crystallization cassettes returned to Earth for a subsequent X-ray crystal analysis.
Expected Results:
Creation of a new generation of vaccines against virous infections based upon synthetic proteins with a predetermined antigenicity and immunogenicity.