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Microgravity on International Space Station Alters Coevolution of Bacteriophages and Their Hosts


In new experiments aboard the International Space Station (ISS), microbiologists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Rhodium Scientific Inc. have discovered that the near-weightless environment of space can significantly reshape how bacteriophages -- viruses that infect bacteria -- interact with their hosts.

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