The world has produced over nine billion tons of plastic since the 1950s, with another 400 million tons added each year. Plastic is everywhere because it’s cheap, durable, and versatile.

First, the expression ‘the dormant bacterial endospore’ usually describes the apparent metabolic inactivity of the spore stage as compared with the vegetative cell. Secondly, the same term has ...

Millions of people with diabetes rely on finger-stick devices to monitor their blood sugar levels, a process that involves ...

However, researchers have come up with a sci-fi like solution. By incorporating spores of plastic-eating bacteria they've developed a plastic that can self-destruct. The spores remain dormant ...

Food poisoning is a common, yet unpleasant, illness caused by eating contaminated items. It is sometimes caused by ...

Moreover, the phage-mediated delivery of small, acid-soluble protein (SASP) derived from spores are the basis of an innovative approach to the killing of antibiotic resistant bacteria. Yet, despite ...