Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan Medical School researchers found that calcium in the gut may help Clostridium difficile bacteria germinate. The new research shows C. diff, which forms ...

International Journal of Plant Sciences, Vol. 159, No. 5 (Sep., 1998), pp. 848-852 (5 pages) Schizaea pusilla is a leptosporangiate fern that occurs in bogs in two disparate geographic locations (i.e.

The effects of spore age and sterilization on spore germination and early gametophyte development were investigated in the fern, Platycerium bifurcatum. The highest germination percentage of ...

SEATTLE – For Bacillus anthracis, the bacterium that causes anthrax, nothing beats the inside of a warm human or animal host for triggering an intense spurt of rapid growth and reproductive activity.

It lurks in hospitals and nursing homes, preying upon patients already weak from disease or advanced age. It kills nearly 30,000 Americans a year, and sickens half a million more. But new research ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - It lurks in hospitals and nursing homes, surviving the cleaning crew's attempt to kill it by holing up in a tiny hard shell. It preys upon patients already weak from disease or ...