License plate transfers allow motorists to move the license plate of an old vehicle and put it on a new car, truck, or SUV. Besides being an excellent way to keep a vanity plate or a plate number with ...

Biofilms are clusters of microorganisms that stick to non-biological surfaces, such as rocks in a stream, as well as to surfaces on plants (roots) or in animals (epithelium). These clusters are ...

The Earth's hard outer layer (where we live) is called the crust. It is made up of large slabs called tectonic plates. The plates fit together like jigsaw puzzle pieces far beneath our feet.

2019). Candida albicans (a fungus) is frequently co-detected with high numbers of Streptococcus mutans (a cariogenic bacterium) in biofilms formed on tooth surfaces of toddlers with severe childhood ...

The aim of this study was to develop an experimental adhesive by addition of METAC at different concentrations (1%, 2.5%, and 5%) and to evaluate S. mutans inhibition, degree of conversion, ...

Subsequently, the biofilms were extracted by sonication and vortexing. To determine the CFUs, the biofilm suspensions were diluted in a series of steps, plated onto blood agar plates, and incubated ...

Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Shenzhen Research Institute, City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China Tung Research Centre, City University of ...

Department of Engineering, University of Messina, Messina, Contrada Di Dio I-98166, Italy ...