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Bacteria More Virulent in Microgravity

Posted by Hemos on from the just-wonderful dept.

Tortured Potato writes "Did you know that salmonella become more virulent in simulated microgravity? No one's sure why, either. Professor Cheryl Nickerson of Tulane University is hoping to find out why when an experiment with brewer's yeast gets sent up on a Russian Progress rocket to the Space Station next year."

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  1. Simulated Microgravity? by roshi · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Anyone care to enlighten me as to what "Modeled Microgravity" is exactly? How do you simulate u-G?

    Just wondering...

  2. This brings the question... by shadwwulf · · Score: 2, Insightful
    ...if less gravity makes bacteria more virulent, does more than 1x g's cause the bacteria to become less virulent? If so I wonder if we'll be seeing medical equipment down the road that flattens you to a spinning wall much like a specific type of amusement park ride of today does.

    All in the name of curing a bacterial infection...

    Just a thought...