Over the past few months there’s been a lot of talk about the conditions inside the International Space Station and its potential to spawn new, potentially dangerous kinds of microscopic organisms. Close study of the microbes found inside the space station suggested that they may be mutating, and fears of “superbugs” that were resistant to modern antibiotics dominated the discussion.
A new research effort appears to indicate that the bacteria in the ISS is indeed mutating, but not for the purposes of circumventing human defenses. As it turns out, the tiny microbes might just be trying their best to adapt to their strange new home in space.
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