In an agency first, the FDA has cleared a system designed to clean out the complex inner channels of flexible endoscopes—a ...

“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 ...

The 2025 Cape Town Cycle Tour, the world’s biggest timed bike race, will take place on Sunday, 9 March. This year’s edition will be the 47th. In addition to the ‘standard’ 109km race ...

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 ...

Their work, “Not All Antiseptic Solutions Are Equivalent in Removing Biofilm: A Comparison Across Different Orthopaedic Surfaces,” appears in the January 15, 2025, edition of The Journal of Bone and ...

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 ...

The thermal spring environment hosts 3–5 cm thick red and green layered biofilms, which are carbonate-rich microbial mats. These biofilms can thrive under extreme conditions, including low ...

The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, P. R. China Bioinspired Engineering ...

Figure 3. General formation model of the marine biofouling process. Given the significant impacts of marine biofilms on the marine industry and biogeochemical cycles, it is imperative to gain a ...

LEPABE─Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto 4099-002, Portugal ALiCE─Associate Laboratory in Chemical ...