Medically reviewed by Laura Young, MD Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is a common vaginal condition that occurs when the balance 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 ...

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

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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 ...

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 ...

A research team led by Prof. Liu Xuanyong from the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...

The biofilms on microplastics turned out to be stronger and thicker than those observed on other materials, like glass. The rate of antibiotic resistance on the microplastics was also much higher.

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 ...

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.