Gram-negative bacteria may appear red under the microscope because red-pink iodine ... Doctors further categorize them into spore-forming and non-spore-forming. Forming spores and lying dormant ...

More precise electron microscope ... bacteria, B. subtilis and B. megaterium. To determine whether spores change size with environmental conditions, they checked the size of B. thuringiensis ...

He developed sophisticated techniques for observing bacterial growth on microscope slides, and saw that anthrax could form spores that survived ... and identifiable under the microscope, and ...

Chemical disinfectants like chlorine bleach can kill bacteria, but they can’t wipe out spores. High-temperature sterilization under high pressures destroys spores and bacteria. The research ...

The discovery sheds light on how certain bacteria -- including strains that cause food poisoning and anthrax -- form spores for survival. Scientists have discovered a protein that enables bacteria ...

It is filled with bacterial spores that, when exposed to nutrients present in compost, germinate and break down the material at the end of its life cycle. The work is detailed in a paper published ...