Bacterial spores—the hardy survival structures formed by certain bacterial species—are proving to be a game changer in the ...

Bacterial spores – the hardy survival structures formed by certain bacterial species – are proving to be a game changer in ...

CDPH led the development of BabyBIG in the 1990s, securing FDA approval to produce the life-saving drug in 2003, and remains ...

Discover how researchers used bacterial spores to make sustainable, living, smart materials that can endure harsh ...

Moss spores have just joined the short list of life forms proven to withstand the raw vacuum of space for months at a time, ...

Researchers led by a team at the University of California San Diego have developed a biodegradable form of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) that could help reduce the plastic industry’s environmental ...

Scientists have demonstrated a creative solution to plastic pollution, one of our most pressing environmental problems. Plastic was embedded with spores of plastic-eating bacteria that are activated ...

Humans can contaminate space; microorganisms can find their way onto and into stuff that gets sent into space, even though care is taken to decontaminate spacecraft prior to launch. Spores from Earth ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 106, No. 46 (Nov. 17, 2009), pp. 19334-19339 (6 pages) The bacterial spore, the hardiest known life form, can ...

The master chemists known as Streptomyces bacteria have turned a compound rich with the tangy odor of moist soil into a hitchhiking scam. This group of bacteria, the inspiration for streptomycin and ...

Bacterial spores store information about the individual growth history of their progenitor cells, thus retaining a "memory" that links the different stages of the bacterial life cycle. The spore ...

As the nationwide outbreak of infant botulism continues to grow, and new test results show botulism bacteria in some samples ...