A study published in Microbiome reports how Acinetobacter pitti forms its own genetically and functionally discrete clade distinct from most Earth-bound isolates aboard the International Space Station. Read the paper here:
Monitoring the adaptation of microorganisms to the extreme environment of the International Space Station is crucial to understanding microbial evolution and infection prevention.is an opportunistic nosocomial pathogen, primarily impacting immunocompromised patients, that was recently isolated from two missions aboard the ISS. has formed its own genetically and functionally discrete clade distinct from most Earth-bound isolates .
The International Space Station is perhaps the paradigm of experimental “built environments” to observe such microbial adaptation in action. After all, all life on the ISS had to originate on Earth, and this makes it the ideal place to study, in a contained environment, how life changes in orbit. To date, there have been numerous other examples of microbes changing after being exposed to space.
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