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08/30/2018 / By Ralph Flores

Fighting antibiotic resistance in space: NASA sent E.coli into space to see how the superbug fares in hostile conditions

We’ve launched nearly everything into space — from coins to recordings, to images of cities, we’ve even sent up dirt and toys. Just when you think that we’ve already launched every conceivable thing into orbit, scientists over the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have launched a bacteria strain in space to see how it would react […]

09/16/2017 / By Russel Davis

Shapeshifting bacteria? Scientists discover how E. coli in space becomes antibiotic resistant

Bacterial cells such as E.coli were found to mutate or shapeshift in space to resist common antibiotics that successfully kill them on Earth, a study in the Frontiers in Microbiology revealed. The scientific community has long established that bacteria show different activities in space than when they are on Earth. Likewise, researchers have known that it takes […]

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