Medically reviewed by Jamie Johnson, RDN Key Takeaways Natto is a traditional Japanese fermented soybean dish made with a bacterium called Bacillus subtilis var. natto.Natto contains probiotics and ...

Because natural resources are always limited, the right strategy decides about success in life. This also applies to spore-forming bacteria. Bacillus subtilis can survive unfavorable living conditions ...

Researchers at National Taiwan University have discovered a versatile enzyme from Bacillus subtilis that efficiently attaches phosphate groups to a wide variety of phenolic molecules, offering a ...

In the study of bacteria, a longstanding dogma has held that two molecular machines—RNA polymerase, which leads the way in transcribing DNA into RNA, and ribosomes, which bring up the rear translating ...

The bacterium Bacillus subtilis can be found anywhere from soil to a human’s gastrointestinal tract. Known as hay or grass bacillus, B. subtilis is often used as an agricultural plant to deter pests.

A promising approach to control Staphylococcus aureus bacterial colonization in people -- using a probiotic instead of antibiotics -- was safe and highly effective in a Phase 2 clinical trial. The new ...

For decades, Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae have dominated industrial bioproduction. Yet Gram-positive bacteria—particularly actinomycetes ...