Researchers at Umeå University have recently developed a highly sensitive method for detecting bacterial spores—tough microorganisms that survive extreme conditions and can cause both food poisoning ...

Laboratory tests of ByHeart infant formula confirmed some samples were contaminated with the type of bacteria that has ...

image: Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that multidrug-resistant bacteria and bacterial spores can be killed by ultrashort-pulse lasers. The findings ...

When the going gets tough for certain bacteria, they form into spores that can withstand the harshest of environments. Scientists have now utilized that fact to produce "living plastic" that ...

B. cereus is common in the environment. It can be present in soil and therefore on vegetation. That means it can come into ...