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

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

“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 ...

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 ...

Bacteria exposed to microplastics can become resistant to antibiotics, a new study has found. Researchers from the US ...