More information: Bing Zhou et al, Dormant bacterial spores encrypt a long-lasting transcriptional program to be executed during revival, Molecular Cell (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2023.10.010 ...

Bacterial spores can survive for years, even centuries, without nutrients, resisting heat, UV radiation, and antibiotics. How inert, sleeping bacteria — or spores — spring back to life has ...

Because spores are a vector for long-term preservation of the bacteria, they need to be capable of resisting heat, cold, radiation, and other dangers.

The spore is what’s become of a bacterial cell that has encountered harsh conditions. It’s not exactly dead, but Suel said it is in a state of dormancy where the common needs and functions of ...

The spore structure, from the outer to inner layers, consists of the exosporium, the spore coat, the outer membrane, the cortex, the germ cell wall, the inner spore membrane, and the core. The ...

Park and colleagues found that anthrax spores do, in fact, stimulate the host immune system and that they do so by activating a distinct set of immune sensors that don't recognize the active, or ...

Commentary Published: 15 December 2011 Bacterial outer membrane evolution via sporulation? Waldemar Vollmer Nature Chemical Biology 8, 14–18 (2012) Cite this article ...

More information: Jonas Segervald et al, Ultra-Sensitive Detection of Bacterial Spores via SERS, ACS Sensors (2025). DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.4c03151 Provided by Umea University ...

A novel heat transfer model reveals critical factors affecting bacterial survival in self-healing concrete, advancing ...

The UIC team has dubbed its creation NERD (short for Nano-Electro-Robotic Device). The cytobot is built on a bacterial spore – more specifically, an endospore – which is essentially a dormant ...

Because spores are a vector for long-term preservation of the bacteria, they need to be capable of resisting heat, cold, radiation, and other dangers.