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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. This isnt the smartest question ever posed... by hookedup · · Score: 4, Interesting


    Would it's ability to be more virulent possibly come from it's relative ease of travel with no gravity? Like somehow gravity 'slows' the virus down when it's on the planet or something...ok...this is where i trail off...

    Go gentle on me.