Micro decisions can have macro consequences. A soft matter physicist reveals how interactions within simple cellular ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a new drug delivery system using ultrasound-activated nanoparticles to ...

No one likes to be alone. Even bacteria have figured out how to stick together – in an intricate structure called a biofilm. No one likes to be alone. Even bacteria have figured out how to stick ...

Bacterial communities build biofilms to protect themselves from external threats, such as antibiotics. But researchers are now taking aim at these bacterial shields. “Biofilms can be good ...

A single, microscopic bacterium divides and expands into a visible colony that can further organize into dynamic structures, from swarming patterns to biofilms ... subtilis colony that looks like a ...

Light-activated copper microrobots use single-atom catalysis and peroxide to penetrate biofilms, generate reactive oxygen ...

In addition, students will examine transposon mutants and transformed bacterial strains to determine which gene products interact with host cell mediators. This work will contribute to a better ...

Microplastics are the tiny particles that come from larger plastic items and industrial waste - some of them so small that they aren't visible ... as a biofilm. These biofilms shield bacteria ...

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 ...

This is a process which carries bacteria into the tunnel environment and these bacteria then form colonies – biofilms – on ...