Bacterial communities build biofilms to protect themselves from external threats, such as antibiotics. But researchers are now taking aim at these bacterial shields. “Biofilms can be good ...

How do biofilms fit into the fight against antibiotic resistance? Researchers estimate that most human bacterial infections proceed with biofilm formation. These biofilms are able to take hold in ...

In addition, students will examine transposon mutants and transformed bacterial strains to determine which gene products interact with host cell mediators. This work will contribute to a better ...

Bacterial Space Biofilms (1st flight): Launched on November, 2019 (NG-12). Returned to Earth on January 2020 (SpaceX-19) Fungal Space Biofilms (2nd flight): Launched on February, 2022 (NG-17).

The biofilm allows the micro-organisms to adhere ... techniques demonstrate unequivocally that more than 99.9% of bacteria grow as aggregated "sessile" communities attached to surfaces, rather ...

However, similarly to humans, bacterial cells often socialize, using surfaces to coalesce into complex heterogeneous communities called biofilms. Within a group, bacteria in the biofilm are ...

Most of the disease-causing bacteria secrete matrix-like layers around themselves called biofilms. These biofilms act as ...

Now, a team of scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has devised a way to break down this biofilm barrier, using an enzyme from the cow's digestive tract. The findings were ...

The discovery could pave the way to starving antibioitc-resistant bacteria without new drugs or harmful chemicals.

Scientists have identified many types of bacteria in the mouth, but many problems remain in understanding how they work with ...

Mohammad Monir, a fish vendor from Khilgaon in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, was arranging a new batch of pabda fish (Ompok ...