In a laboratory in Ulsan, South Korea, scientists have quietly pulled off what might become one of the most important ...

Peering through a microscope at bacteria taken from Treacy’s wound ... an unusual strain of the soil bacterium Bacillus subtilis. “The study of these bacterial antagonists in contaminated ...

B. subtilis spores are stable across a wide temperature range, which reduces the cost of storage and transportation.

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.