An edible biofilm, obtained from agricultural and fishing waste and developed by researchers at the São Carlos Institute of ...

An international research team led by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has achieved a breakthrough in the field of ...

It's never a good thing, when a bacterial biofilm forms on the surface of a medical implant. There could soon be a new way of ...

Scientists were shocked to discover that microplastics don’t just pollute the environment, they may also be fueling the rise ...

Once attached to any surface, bacteria create a biofilm—a sticky substance that acts like a shield, protecting the bacteria from invaders and keeping them affixed securely. Even though bacteria ...

Ultimately, they found that the plastics provided a surface to which the bacteria could attach and colonize, lead author Neila Gross, a Boston University PhD candidate, said in a statement. Once ...

“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 ...

The bacteria attached to and colonized the plastics, as they do to any surface, creating a slimy, complex coating called a biofilm. Biofilms protect bacteria from environmental stressors ...