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Space Bugs Become More Dangerous

September 25, 2007 | 
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Scientists have shown how bacteria in space can gain virulence.When Salmonella typhimurium food bugs were flown in special flasks on the shuttle, they were found to alter the way they expressed 167 genes.

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