Minuscule changes in the size of Bacillus spores with increasing humidity may allow scientists to build a simple optical detector of anthrax spores. UC Berkeley physicists report in the online ...

Discovery Of Size Changes Of Bacillus Spores May Lead To Simpler, Faster Anthrax Detector Date: February 11, 2003 Source: University Of California - Berkeley Summary: The spores of a microbe ...

How cells control their shape and size is a long-standing question in cell biology. Many rod-shaped bacteria elongate their sidewalls by the action of cell wall synthesizing machineries that are ...