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Sustainable Development

Microbes From Human Skin Have Colonized The ISS

by The Daily Eye Team October 27 2015, 4:48 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 21 secs

Researchers led by Kasthuri Venkateswaran, a molecular biologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, studied dust particles collected from ISS vacuums and air filters and compared them to samples collected from NASA cleanrooms. Their efforts mark the first time any team has combined both traditional techniques, like colony counts, with advanced genetic sequencing of the station’s microbial communities.

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