Widespread planting of corn hybrids designed to combat corn rootworm, the crop's most damaging pest in the Corn Belt, is ...

These are some of the most common questions surrounding this disease. The last Monday, the World Tuberculosis Day was celebrated with the aim of raising awareness about the need to raise more funds to ...

Check the dangerous side effects of eating raw rice, including food poisoning, gastrointestinal issues, dehydration, and more ...

Following the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin shortage, the first patient with bladder cancer has been dosed with recombinant ...

What is Bacillus cereus? Bacillus cereus is a gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium that is commonly found in soil, vegetation, and food. It is known for producing two types of toxins: those causing ...

Scientists have discovered a protein that enables bacteria to shut down into dormant spores under extreme conditions. The process, which enables the ...

The study, covered in two separate papers published in Genes and Development today, looks at Bacillus -- a group of bacteria including cereus, which is responsible for food poisoning, and anthrax.

CDC scientists were studying the bacteria in a high-level biosecurity lab and then transferred the samples to three lower-security labs without first properly inactivating the live microbes. Workers ...

We have attempted to examine this problem using clean, dormant, thermostable spores of a common aerobic bacterium, Bacillus cereus strain terminalis.