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 ...

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 ...

Gürol Süel points to an oval image on a large screen. It’s a video of a spore that periodically changes color. “It’s counting every time it encounters food. It’s summing those signals and it gets ...

Infections with the bacteria Clostridium difficile are a big problem, killing 29,000 people a year. Many of those people got infected while in the hospital. And antibiotics often don't work. So how ...

Researchers have found that multidrug-resistant bacteria and bacterial spores can be killed by ultrashort-pulse lasers. The findings could lead to new ways to sterilize wounds and blood products ...

Scientists at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) are taking the unique approach of using the natural stimuli responses in bacterial spores to create high-accuracy humidity sensors. Spores have a ...

At this week’s meeting of the European Astrobiology Network, Tom Gheysens from Ghent University in Belgium and colleagues presented results of their research on the survival of bacterial spores ...

Getting microbes to eat plastic is a frequently touted solution to our growing waste problem, but making the approach practical is tricky. A new technique that impregnates plastic with the spores of ...

Water, plastic and bacterial spores might become the power source of the future. The spores soak up moisture and release vapor, and researchers at Columbia University have built a device to tap the ...