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Swab-sticks
Swab-sticks used for the DELTA Mission SAMPLE experiment - a study of the composition, physiology and possible adaptation of microbial communities exposed to weightlessness.

Credits: H.J.M.Harmsen/University of Groningen
 
  Last update: 16 February 2004 
 
 
 
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