It seems that space travel makes the germs even more virulent and infectious. During the Space Shuttle Mission STS-115, September 2006, there was included a carefully wrapped culture of Salmonella spp. The bacteria responsible for the infectious dyarrhea caused by the ingestion of poisoned food.
The results were amazing. The mice infected in the lab with the space-traveled germ were three times more likely to get sick and died sooner than the ones infected with the non-spaced-traveled samples.

Wherever humans go, microbes go — you can’t sterilize humans. Wherever we go, under …

Craig Venter, the well-known DNA researcher, recently surprised the world when showing at stage with Tim O’Reilly at the Web 2.0 Summit.
A geneticist in a Web 2.0 Conference? Apparently, information technology and genetics are positively converging.
According to Moore’s Law, the capacity of computer chips - and related devices - grows exponentially year after year, and has been so since the 1950s. And the trend will probably continue for the coming decades, as was calculated in 2001.
The sequencing of Venter’s DNA cost about 70 million dollars. Currently, the cost has reduced …