Bacterial and fungal spores float out in the stratosphere, yet they are capable of falling back to Earth where they can ...

Trillions of bacteria, fungi, viruses and single-celled organisms travel the globe high in the atmosphere. Scientists are ...

Plenty of different types of viruses and bacteria are resistant to alcohol-based sanitizers. And they can make you very sick.

According to a paper published in Nature Communications, University of San Diego researchers created a biodegradable plastic from bacterial spores and ... at its most basic structure.

Scientists have discovered a protein that enables bacteria to shut down into dormant spores under extreme conditions ... King's were able to solve the crystal structure of the protein using ...

and germinate into metabolically active bacteria when conditions are favorable. Numerous factors influence this hardiness, including the spore structure and the presence of compounds to protect DNA ...

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), led by synthetic biologist Chenwang Tang, have now figured out how to bake bacterial spores, which secrete these enzymes into the very structure ...

The chemical structure of most polymers is stable and ... and may not be compatible with incorporating bacterial spores. In addition, it's possible that some TPU uses would expose the plastic ...

has a cross-linked structure and can swell upon sorption of water, like rubber swelling in organic solvents or hydrogels swelling in water. To conclude, sorption of water induces swelling and change ...