Scientists discovered 'alien' bacteria on China’s Tiangong space station, raising questions about life in space.

On Earth there is no record of Niallia tiangongensis, a bacterium found aboard the Tiangong station that appears to be well ...

difficile endospores on contaminated surfaces.” C. difficile is a spore-forming anaerobic bacterium. Inside the intestines, C. difficile is like many other intestinal bacteria, but upon entering the ...

Edited by Richard M. Losick, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, and approved August 5, 2011 (received for review June 14, 2011) ...

Image Credit: Halfpoint/Shutterstock.com This breakthrough leverages Bacillus subtilis endospores within a microengineered paper-based platform, addressing the limitations of traditional glucose ...

Scientists have long suspected that the endospores (a dormant form of bacteria that can survive harsh conditions the bacteria otherwise wouldn’t) at both sites, Svalbard and the Labrador Sea ...

This paper is to report the fabrication of a digital microfluidic chip coupled with platinum electrodes for conductometry and to monitor the in situ germination of Bacillus atrophaeus endospores.

Food poisoning – we’ve probably all had it, and don’t ever want to get it again. Now it seems the internet has a new strategy for avoiding it: never eat reheated rice. "Being a med student ...

The fibers are coated with a layer of hydrogel that contains endospores – dormant forms of bacteria that can withstand extreme environments, then revive themselves when things become more ...

Mark Blaskovich receives funding from a range of government, not-for-profit and commercial organisations for research into antibiotic discovery and development. He is affiliated with AAMRNet ...