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 ...

Bacterial biofilm is a major factor contributing to ... or pathogenic bacteria leads to extreme inflammation of the intestinal wall, tissue necrosis and potentially death.

Within the Biofilm Genetics Unit, his group specialises in the identification and characterisation of new bacterial adhesins ... factors can perturb intestinal microbiota composition in a ...

Biofilms are well-structured communities of bacteria enclosed in a self-produced matrix, usually adhered to a surface but can also assemble in floating aggregations. The most crucial difference ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Biofilms, ubiquitous bacterial communities embedded in a slimy matrix, are the oldest form of multicellularity on earth; they are extremely resistant to antibiotics and stick tenaciously to most ...

In contrast to the free-living, or planktonic, bacteria commonly studied in the lab, most prokaryotes in nature settle down in complex communities, often consisting of several interacting species.

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 ...