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 ...

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 ...

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

"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 ...

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.