Persisters comprise a small fraction of the entire biomass, whether in planktonic or biofilm culture, but as distinct phenotypes have yet to be cultured, it remains unclear if these organisms do ...

Biofilms are a collective of one or more types ... than floating freely in the liquid culture itself, according to the 2004 article in Nature Reviews Microbiology. Understanding these complex ...

These geometric and presumably functional patterns that biofilms produce in culture are intriguingly beautiful. Yet Chimileski notes that there is much left to discover when it comes to ...

The scientists added Bio-K+ to a commercially available hydrogel wound dressing called Aquacel, then applied the augmented dressing to a biofilm culture produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria ...

Subscribe for FREE To investigate, the researchers grew the three bacterial species on a glass surface conducive to biofilm development and in a well-mixed liquid culture. They "seeded" an equal ...

However, similarly to humans, bacterial cells often socialize, using surfaces to coalesce into complex heterogeneous ...

A soft matter physicist reveals how interactions within simple cellular collectives can lead to emergent physical traits. Biofilms lead lives of liminality. Just a few cells thick, these layered ...

Once the biofilm-eradication process is complete, the robot gets removed from the body via a laparoscopically-inserted magnet. In lab tests performed on an extracted pig digestive system, the ...

University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have invented a biofilm that sticks to the skin like a Band-Aid to harnesses sweat for electricity that could power wearable devices. The biofilm is ...

“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 ...