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 ...

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 ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 106, No. 46 (Nov. 17, 2009), pp. 19334-19339 (6 pages) The bacterial spore, the hardiest known life form, can ...

Spores, resilient and protective structures formed by certain microorganisms like bacteria and fungi, serve as a survival mechanism against adverse conditions. Bacterial spores are among the ...

Bacteria go to extremes to handle hard times: They hunker down, building a fortress-like shell around their DNA and turning off all signs of life. And yet, when times improve, these dormant spores ...

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 ...

Sporulation may have given rise to the bacterial outer membrane Date: September 4, 2011 Source: California Institute of Technology Summary: Bacteria can generally be divided into two classes ...

Dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) is a potent sensitizer of irradiated bacterial spores (Bacillus megaterium). It is effective under either anoxic or well-oxygenated conditions; in both cases, DMSO increases ...

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

TLR sensing of bacterial spore-associated RNA triggers host immune responses with detrimental effects. The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 2017; jem.20161141 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20161141 ...