Federal health officials on Wednesday expanded an outbreak of infant botulism tied to recalled ByHeart baby formula to include all illnesses reported since the company began production in March 2022.

From your phone to your sponge, your toothbrush to your trolley handle, invisible armies of bacteria are lurking on the everyday objects you touch the most. Most of these microbes are harmless—some ...

A recent article in Microsystems & Nanoengineering introduces an innovative approach to glucose monitoring, featuring a self-powered transducing mechanism driven by spore-forming bacteria. Study: ...

Researchers from Binghamton University are developing a paper-based biosensor that promises pain-free diabetes monitoring using sweat. According to its developers, the new paper-based biosensor system ...

Abstract: The advent of microelectromechanical system allows people to investigate microbial physiology in a microscale. This paper is to report the fabrication of a digital microfluidic chip coupled ...

Taxoniq is a Python and command-line interface to the NCBI Taxonomy database and selected data sources that cross-reference it. Pre-built wheels are available for ...

Abstract: We present a groundbreaking non-invasive, wearable glucose biosensor offering long-term stability, high selectivity, and biocompatibility at low cost. Utilizing bacterial endospores as novel ...

In hopes of producing concrete structures that can repair their cracks, researchers from Drexel University’s College of Engineering are putting a new twist on an old trick for improving the durability ...

Bacterial spores are specialized cell forms for survival, even in adverse environmental conditions. They are always produced within a vegetative cell, which is why they are called endospores.