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 ...

Paris-based Spore.Bio, a startup that developed an artificial intelligence-driven method for detecting pathogens, said today it has raised $23 million in early-stage funding to reinvent microbiology ...

Military textile fabric treated with an antimicrobial compound can kill dormant anthrax spores and could provide the basis for enhancing military protection in the event of a biological attack.

On a kitchen counter, filamentous fungi can start growing inside an orange, for instance, eventually break through that fruit’s surface, and suddenly spurt spores out to contaminate the rest of the ...

Dormant endospores can survive tough conditions over prolonged periods of time, but what cues reactivate them from their torpor? Nutrients are a well-characterized signal for germination of spores but ...

Anthrax spores may survive traditional drinking water disinfection methods and can attach themselves to the inside surface of water pipes, suggesting water treatment facilities should be prepared to ...

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 antibiotic teixobactin—developed a decade ago by Northeastern University professors Kim Lewis and Slava Epstein in collaboration with university startup NovoBiotic—has already proven itself ...