A team analyzed the amino acids that affect the formation of spores in a bacterium that causes food poisoning, Clostridium perfringens, and identified serine as an amino acid that inhibits spore ...

A common cause of food poisoning, this bacteria’s growth might be regulated by the presence of certain amino acids. News organizations may use or redistribute this image, with proper attribution, as ...

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 ...

Solving a riddle that has confounded biologists since bacterial spores - inert, sleeping bacteria - were first described more than 150 years ago, researchers at Harvard Medical School have discovered ...