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Hibernating bacteria can invade hospitals and survive outer space—but their energy budget reveals a weakness
Source: Phys.org · Published
A spore is a bacterium's survival capsule: dried almost solid and wrapped in protein armor, with its chemical processes shut down. Bacteria enter this state of hibernation when environmental…
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