Millions of people living with diabetes endure the daily burden of managing their condition, relying on devices that require frequent blood samples. Current glucose monitoring systems, although ...

Under stress from heavy metal ions, Bacillus subtilis forms spores. The team mixed these engineered spores with poly (caprolactone) (PCL) plastic granules and produced spore-containing plastics ...

Finding life in outer space is one of the great endeavors of humankind. One approach is to find motile microorganisms that ...

For millions of people with diabetes, daily glucose monitoring often involves painful finger-stick tests to draw blood for ...

Note: Formation of an endospore. The spore stains green and the vegetative cells stain red to orange. Students will work individually. Prepare a smear of Bacillus subtilis using a darkly colored ...

The molecular biology of spore germination in Bacillus subtilis and in the Bacillus cereus family, and the structure and assembly of coats and exosporium. The role of sigma M in the stress-resistance ...