If your teeth have ever felt fuzzy after skipping a brushing, you've encountered biofilm—a slimy bacterial layer that clings to surfaces. In medical settings, biofilms make infections harder to treat ...

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, but when ...

Many bacteria form an antibiotic-resistant slime. Research detailing that slime's structure could help lead to new treatments. Many bacteria form an antibiotic-resistant slime. Research detailing that ...

Bacteria, those tiny, often-misunderstood microorganisms, have just gave up a groundbreaking secret that could transform our approach to combating infections. Bacteria are notorious for banding ...

Bacteria are traditionally imagined as single-cell organisms, spread out sparsely over surfaces or suspended in liquids, but in many environments the true bacterial mode of growth is in sticky ...

Microscopy images of bacteria strains, one, top, producing fimbriae as normal and one with high level of MEcPP unable to produce the fimbriae. If your teeth have ever felt fuzzy after skipping a ...

Biofilms are structured communities of microbial cells enclosed within a self-produced extracellular matrix, adherent to biotic or abiotic surfaces. In pathogenic bacteria, biofilm development follows ...

Imagine a group of bacteria teaming up like a gang, creating a fortress around them. This is essentially what bacterial biofilms are – a tough, sticky barrier that makes them incredibly difficult to ...

In nature as well as in our bodies, bacteria predominantly live as organized communities called biofilms. These structures play a central role in antibiotic resistance mechanisms. In a paper published ...

defenses.Lauren Bylsma worked with Professor Arlene Hoogewerf to use bacterial and cell culture methods to grow bacteria and macrophages, and use fluorescent and biochemical methods to examine the ...