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Spaceflight boosts bacterial deadliness

Microgravity increases virulence of Salmonella in space.

It sounds like a plot device from a cheap science-fiction novel: bacteria that travel into space come back to Earth deadlier than before.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on September 24, 2007 10:00 PM |

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