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Microgravity Can Permanently Mutate Bacteria And Make Them Faster Breeders
(www.sciencealert.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2023
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Could potentially be used to create better strains of "good bacteria" such as the extremely important ones that make up the human gut microbiome. I could see it maybe being useful for the development of antibiotics and vaccines too!