This extraordinary capacity is due to the existence of a cellular sensor capable of detecting nutrients in the environment. With a food source nearby, the bacteria reactivates and resumes its normal activity.
Bacterial spores are metabolically inactive and can remain in that state for years and even centuries.Ines Fuentes/CDC/Jeremy/Perkins
27/04/2023
Updated at 8:34 p.m.
More than 150 years ago, biologists first described bacterial spores (dormant, inert bacteria enclosed in a protective capsule) and ever since they have wondered how they manage, even after several decades in that state, to return to life again. …
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