cellboy

On CSPAN tonight I am watching Dr. Cheryl Nickerson of ASU, talk about the findings of Salmonella and its genetic changes in space. Salmonella accounts for 35% of deaths in the US, and even greater world wide. Studying how these and other viruses react and mutate in space, may hold a key for cures here on earth.
http://medgadget.com/archives/2007/09/space_flight_makes_bacteria_deadlier.html

http://www.biodesign.asu.edu/news/space-flight-shown-to-alter-ability-of-bacteria-to-cause-disease
Here they are asking the House Science Subcommittee for more appropriations, and more time, to continue their research. More time for private and commercial medical research.
Sad thing is, is that the Space Shuttle is due to retire in 2016. So then what next? Scrap research on the space station before it is all is complete?
http://www.shuttlepresskit.com/ISS_OVR/index.htm
(Yes girls, I do watch this stuff, not just porn :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdrqeAKNLM8