The accumulation of microplastics in the environment, and within our bodies, is an increasingly worrisome issue. But ...

The breakthrough offers potential advances in healthcare as well as preventing equipment corrosion in industrial settings. "In simple terms, biofilms are communities of microorganisms, like ...

Most people have encountered the black, grey, or pink stains of bacterial biofilms built up on the bathroom tiles or kitchen sink. Even with vigorous scrubbing and strong cleaning chemicals, this ...

Most people have encountered the black, gray, or pink stains of bacterial biofilms built up on the bathroom tiles or kitchen ...

Biofilm growth on all underwater surfaces increases a ship's drag and subsequent fuel usage, as well as corrosion damage on ships or oceanographic equipment. Biofilm can also fog up windows used ...

The rise of multidrug-resistant and hypervirulent strains, and the capacity to build biofilms on numerous medical equipment, complicates and renders antibiotics useless in treating such infections.

Plastic pollution is one of the defining environmental challenges of our time—and some of nature's tiniest organisms may ...

“Microplastics are like rafts — a bacteria on its own might not be able to swim down a river, but riding in its biofilm on a tiny bit of plastic it can be disseminated into many different ...

"We observed numerous equipment with apparent biofilm and large amounts of food debris present after the firm’s post-operation cleans," the report notes. Taylor Farms had graded the cleaning ...