"Educational poster (showing) a group of mushrooms with the spores that connect them at the bottom. Above are a number of images of cross-sections of the mushrooms and microscopic images of the spores."

Jung-Koch-Quentell Wall Tables. 1963.

A remarkable quality of bioengineering is that scientists can take biological processes honed by millions of years of evolution and use them to efficiently create drugs, chemicals and other products to improve our lives. Now Tufts researchers have found new ways to expand the potential for using bacterial spores as catalysts for chemical reactions, biofuel production or breaking down pollutants.