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Now, this is thinking outside the box.   Dr. Adam Driks (Loyola, Illinois) is a microbiologist who has been studying spores for a while.  A spore is a protective shell (actually, concentric shells) that some microbes form to keep themselves  preserved during periods of environmental stress.  It was originally thought to be like a walnut shell protecting the valuable components within.  But, Driks has been studying Bacillus spores and found that when the relative humidity changes, so does the spore itself.

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