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Bacteria in space: why the International Space Station is riddled with ‘germs’ – MENAFN.COM
Forget Ridley Scott’s Alien . There’s a new, real-life horror story in space. As one national newspaper headline warned this week , the International Space Station…
(MENAFN – The Conversation) Forget Ridley Scott’s Alien . There’s a new, real-life horror story in space. As one national newspaper headline warned this week , the International Space Station is ‘filled with germs’.
But should such a revelation really make us scream? The story stems from a new NASA study (reported in Microbiome ) which found that some bacterial pathogens, including Actinobacteria often associated with human skin are thriving in the station, 248 miles above the Earth. Not that this…
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