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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that approximately 40,000 US citizens contract salmonella every year, primarily from unwashed food. The bacterium can do some serious damage inside the body, and outbreaks are not at all uncommon. Against it, many pharmaceutical companies have attempted to develop vaccines or other forms of treatment, to various degrees of success. Now, Austin, Texas-based Astrogenetix is applying for approval from the CDC for starting human trials with its new salmonella vaccine, obtained from research done in orbit. The International Space Station (ISS) has been touted as the most important research facility in the world today, mostly because it took more than $100 billion, and about 11 years, to build. Rather than housing weapon research, as one could expect from an orbit-based research facility, the station is home to a very large number of scientific experiments, which are all designed to further knowledge in specific f!
ields of research back on Earth. From physics and chemistry to medicine and technology, nearly every line of study is represented by a project or an ongoing investigation on the lab. However, because of technology restraints, not every experiment that deserves to be in orbit reaches the orbit. As a result, for a long time, NASA has been o...
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