The microscopic shards of plastic found in every corner of the planet may be exacerbating antibiotic resistance, a new study has found.

What are hydrogels, and what are they used for? These water-absorbing polymer networks have applications in drug delivery, ...

“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 ...

Infection and inflammation: All sorts of bacteria proliferate on the dead tissue that accumulates in these wounds, forming what we call a biofilm. Bacterial biofilms embed in and around the necrotic ...

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 ...

To put that in perspective, the Earth is thought to be about 4.5 billion years old, which means these "rocks"—really bacterial biofilms (a sheet of bacteria only a few cells thick)—have been around a ...

Biofilms, composed of bacterial communities in a matrix of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), are highly resistant to antibiotics. Contrary to previous beliefs, EPS is not inherently sticky ...

School of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou International Campus, Guangzhou 511442, China CAS Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials ...