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Research conducted on the International Space Station in 2006 and 2008 has finally revealed for certain something that virology experts have suspected for a long time, and namely that salmonella grows to be more or less dangerous depending on its environment. In the micro-gravity surroundings of the ISS, the bacteria became much more virulent than they regularly were on Earth, a find that, one day, might yield a new treatment for people who would be infected by the pathogen.