The biofilm allows the micro-organisms to adhere ... such as otitis media and osteomyelitis, experience cycles of acute exacerbation and remission. Many chronic infections result in treatment ...

This work highlights how, in addition to biomolecular details of signaling and regulation, biophysical interactions play an important role in bacterial life cycles and infection. "Biofilm research ...

Sitting on her dirt throne and swollen with eggs, a termite queen is tended to by her sterile subjects. All of the insects in the colony are specialists in what they do: Workers forage and construct ...

AMR is not only related to the emergence of resistant bacterial strains but also significantly due to the formation of biofilm barriers, where bacteria adhere to surfaces and secrete substances.

“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 ...

Mechanistic modeling of oxygen transfer in hollow-fiber membrane-aerated biofilm reactors (HFMBRs) Coupling of aerobic and anaerobic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in mixed community biofilms ...