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 ...

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 ...

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

Biofilms work so well, in fact, that they can increase antibiotic resistance hundreds to thousands of times above what’s normal, Zaman said. “Biofilms are pretty nasty to get off because they ...

Biofilms, ubiquitous bacterial communities embedded in a slimy matrix, are the oldest form of multicellularity on earth; they are extremely resistant to antibiotics and stick tenaciously to most ...

forming biofilms. This living condition enables microorganisms to resist hard stress stimuli (i.e., UV irradiation, high temperature and antibiotic treatment), and to behave like a quasi ...

The biofilm allows the micro-organisms to adhere ... that today remain the cornerstone of diagnostic and prescriptive antibiotic therapy. Microbiologists usually study micro-organisms in a liquid ...

bacteria specialize to perform different tasks within the biofilm. For instance, a subset of cells sprouts flagella and swims off from the community to colonize new surfaces. Specialization comes at a ...

The rate of antibiotic resistance on the microplastic ... the bacteria they once housed kept the ability to form stronger biofilms. "Too often, these issues are viewed from a lens of politics ...

Biofilms work so well, in fact, that they can increase antibiotic resistance hundreds to thousands of times above what’s normal, Zaman said. “Biofilms are pretty nasty to get off because they’re super ...

Insights into what holds antibiotic-resistant biofilms together by Bill Hathaway, Yale University Schematic of the interplay between Vc cells and VPS network during biofilm development.