spores

The concept of using bacterial spores as a means of producing motion is pretty neat, though it's obviously a long way from being practical.

If it happened later, say after bacteria had evolved, then bacterial spores could have been transported as well.

Would be a shame to contaminate our best chance of discovering microbial ET with spores from earth.

We have explored the use of infrared spectroscopy of pollen and spores for an inexpensive and rapid characterization of aeroallergens.

It's legal in the US (in all but three states I believe), because the spores do not contain psylocin/psylocybin.

Mold certification will be given if the spores have been counted correctly.

Cockroaches, dust mites, or mold spores could be prompting some epigenetic response.

I wonder how hardy those spores are -- that is, if they're as much of a problem with dried garlic, as with fresh?

You could also wake up feeling tired as a result of changes in air quality (chemicals, mold, spores, wall paint, even furniture materials apparently).

Correct me if I'm wrong but if the procedure is counting spores under the microscope, couldn't a computer vision system be trained with machine learning techniques to count an air sample under the microscope too?

It has a symbiotic relationship with the nearby trees, and when they die, it blooms and releases its spores to fly off in search of other places to live.

We can afford to send up a couple of hundred tons of prokaryotic spores every year until the cows come home, with solar sails to get their packages up above solar escape velocity.

The problems ranged from the kits having no expiration dates, potentially compromising the results, to being difficult to use" One solution seems to be to lead the mold spores land on a Petri dish, incubate the dish, and inspect to see what grows.

(This is the theory of "panspermia".) Or, the same collision processes that brought the Martian-meteor with maybe-fossils to Earth, could have carried live spores between the planets – so a single microbial-evolution inside our solar system could reach multiple planets.