Researchers from Binghamton University are developing a paper-based biosensor that promises pain-free diabetes monitoring ...

One early project, dubbed "Operation Vegetarian," investigated the practicality of dropping linseed cakes containing anthrax bacterial spores over Germany that would kill any cattle that ate them.

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 ...

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 ...