CHICAGO — Sophia Leung sees the potential of probiotics in baked foods within her own household. “It’s a lot more appealing to have probiotics in something like a muffin than probiotic supplements, or ...

Our days of crying over spoiled milk could be over, thanks to food scientists. Milk undergoes heat treatment -- pasteurization -- to kill off microbes that can cause food spoilage and disease, but ...

When spore-forming bacteria, such as Bacillus or Clostridium, enter a state of starvation, they transform into a state of dormancy in order to survive. No other life form is as difficult to eliminate ...

New research has found that six probiotic Bacillus strains are resistant to several antibiotics. Genetic analysis of other Bacillus strains has shown genes that contribute to antibiotic resistance ...

Scientists have found that bacterial spores, the most resistant organisms on Earth, carry an extra coating of protection that has gone undetected until now. The findings, reported in the latest issue ...

Discover how researchers used bacterial spores to make sustainable, living, smart materials that can endure harsh ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Rates of molecular evolution are known to vary considerably among lineages, partially due to differences in life-history traits such as ...

THAT spore-forming bacteria, that is, species of the genus Bacillus, are responsible for some plant diseases has been recorded from time to time, but has rarely been confirmed ; it is not yet ...

Bacterial spores—the hardy survival structures formed by certain bacterial species—are proving to be a game changer in the ...