Scientists are sending a variety of bacteria to the International Space Station Staff -11 missions. This experience is not a plot for some people Happy horror movieBut with the aim of understanding the scientific investigation of Israel’s Shiba Medical Center and the US -based company Space Tango, how bacteria spread and behave under extreme circumstances. This experiment also includes e -coli as well as bacteria that cause diseases such as typhoid fever and infection is commonly known as Salmonella.
After reaching ISS, various bacterial species in this experiment will be seen before experimenting against counterparts against the counterparts that were grown simultaneously in the same lab under normal circumstances. The results of this experiment will help scientists understand what bacteria respond to zero gravity and help astronauts, which are more at risk of infection during missions due to stress, radiation exposure and changes in gravity. However, research can be beyond space missions. With the onset of the super bugs showing antibiotic resistance, ways to cope with strong bacterial stress can be shown.
“This experiment will allow us to make the first time organized and molecular maps in space that many pathogenic bacteria’s genetic expression profile in space,” said Ohhad Gail Marwar, head of the infectious diseases in infectious diseases in Shiba, “said in a press release.
The Medical Center had previously conducted a test with bacteria in artificial space conditions, showing less ability to create antibiotic resistance, but the latest experience is the first experience in ISS. This is not the first time that scientists have studied bacterial behavior Micrograde conditionsSince researchers at Houston University have experienced how e -coli will develop in an artificial space environment in 2017. Recently, Nasa The internal parts of the ISS began an experiment to work for astronauts to sweep the internal parts of the ISS and test them for antibiotic -resistant bacteria.