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This one, researchers from Sheba Medical Center in Israel, along with a U.S.-based company, Space Tango, have put together a study to examine how microgravity affects bacteria growth in space. And the scientists are only interested in bacteria that's pathogenic to humans. They studied bacteria in space in the past, some of it's been inadvertent, they discovered it on the outside of the space station later on. And some of it on clothes when they come gas up from the backyard. But this here, it's intentional, and specifically for bacteria that's pathogenic. And the team, the team thought that they were going to be born with very strange bacteria in microgravity. They're going to freeze in that minus 80 degrees Celsius and then return to sample Earth to find out how they grow differently than the same bacteria back here on the Earth.