A biofilm forms when one or several bacterial cells suspended in the water attach to a surface. At this point, the cell either detaches again or attaches more firmly by secretion of EPS.

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 ...

While bacteria can grow biofilms on any surface, researcher Gross found that microplastics supercharged this process. When antibiotics were introduced, the enhanced biofilm blocke ...

Chen was recently awarded a $360,000 Early Career Proposal grant from the U.S. Army Research Office to investigate how biofilms — the slimy ... factors such as sunlight exposure and water temperature ...

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 ...

Biofilm communities are not simply surface-adherent mixtures of bacterial species, rather they are dynamic and structurally complex systems. As biofilms might be the default mode of bacterial life ...

Biofilm growth has been observed in Soviet/Russian (Salyuts and Mir), American (Skylab), and International (ISS) Space Stations, sometimes jeopardizing key equipment like spacesuits, water recycling .

More information: Alexis Moreau et al, Surface remodeling and inversion of cell-matrix interactions underlie community recognition and dispersal in Vibrio cholerae biofilms, Nature Communications ...

An edible biofilm, obtained from agricultural and fishing ... The results indicate that the material forms a film on the surface of the fruit that acts as a barrier to the passage of ...