The biofilm begins to dispel the notion that bacteria ... The individual cell averages just one micrometer in size (for context, an average human hair diameter is 100 micrometers) but owing ...

Biofilms are protective three-dimensional structures created ... “Further research is needed to assess whether these effects translate to human infections or environmental settings.” ...

"This highlights surprising parallels between bacterial and human defense mechanisms." This universal survival strategy may explain why biofilms play such an important role in various environments ...

Biofilm formation also increases the risk of human illnesses and therefore needs to be well understood to enable safe, long-duration, human space missions. The Space Biofilms project aims to ...

In particular, we took into account the role of the water itself and of biofilms." In fact, the comparison has now shown for ...

"We previously found that ferumoxytol effectively inhibits pathogenic biofilms in the human mouth, so we asked if these same nanoparticles could treat an even more challenging biofilm: those ...

Since biofilm-related diseases are the main reason ... Catherine's expertise is microbiology of the human gut and impacts on health, development of bioinformatics techniques for analysis of ...