Engineered Bacterial Spores Make Them Ideal for Vaccine Applications

Engineered Bacterial Spores Make Them Ideal for Vaccine Applications

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. For humans, though, hay bacillus is usually, but not always, harmless. Recently, Gholamreza Ahmadian, PhD, professor of industrial and environmental biotechnology at the National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB) in Tehran, …