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>>10682272 >>10687619
In particular, they are taking another batch of microbial samples from the outer station surface for the "Test" experiment. (yeah it's called like that). It's a long running experiment analyzing the chemicals and lifeforms accidentally brought to the outer surface by various means.
http://www.tsniimash.ru/science/scientific-experiments-onboard-the-is-rs/cnts/experiments/test/
The intermediate results are already surprising. They've found different planktonic species from all over the world, from Barentz Sea to Indian Ocean, many of them alive and capable to reproduce, and also some non-oceanic fungi spores. They're proposing the existence of some ionic mechanism lifting microscopic particles (including micro-organisms) to that height. Which means a previously unknown possibility for panspermia.