Mutants from Space

So scientists sent some disease-causing microbes up to space to see how the experience might change the microbes. Apparently, space only makes them more dangerous:

Following the shuttle flight, studies using mice showed the salmonella bacteria aboard the shuttle were "almost three times as likely to cause disease when compared with control bacteria grown on the ground," said a university statement outlining the study.

I suppose I can't fault the scientists for trying this experiment as long as everyone learned a lesson and will no longer take disease-causing microbes to space. But wait:

The scientists plan to carry out more experiments on the same theme possibly on space shuttle flights in 2008.

On the bright side, we can worry less about the scientists who are creating an army of clones that will destroy humanity, because the world will be wiped out much earlier by the super-strength diseases that are being cultivated in space and brought back to our planet.