Solving a riddle that has confounded biologists since bacterial spores — inert, sleeping bacteria — were first described more than 150 years ago, researchers at Harvard Medical School have discovered ...

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 ...

While much effort has focused on avoiding anthrax, history has also seen attempts to explore using the bacterial spores to ...

Bacteria are resilient organisms with the ability to change their metabolism to enter a dormant state that allows them to survive long periods. Dormant bacteria, known as spores, are able to come back ...

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 ...

Solving a riddle that has confounded biologists since bacterial spores - inert, sleeping bacteria - were first described more than 150 years ago, researchers at Harvard Medical School have discovered ...