Food scientists at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have revealed key characteristics of the foodborne pathogen ...

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 ...

Here, Tanmay speaks to science journalist Geoff Marsh about his award-winning work on Pseudomonas aeruginosa and its peculiar extracellular matrix in biofilms. The Q&A is an edited version of the ...

Bacterial Space Biofilms (1st flight): Launched on November, 2019 (NG-12). Returned to Earth on January 2020 (SpaceX-19) Fungal Space Biofilms (2nd flight): Launched on February, 2022 (NG-17).

The biofilms that line the walls in a few underground areas at SURF are home to a unique set of microbes with potential for ...

Dr Annette Taylor and Dr Esther Karunakaran are part of a new Research Group the Sheffield Collaboratorium for Antimicrobial Resistance And Biofilms. The group are looking at how harmful bacteria form ...

One of the most intriguing and clinically relevant features of microbial biofilms is their significantly higher antibiotic resistance relative to their free-floating counterparts, which generates ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed a method to dismantle protective biofilms produced by Klebsiella pneumoniae, a bacterium known for causing infections like ...

K. pneumoniae secretes a tough matrix-like biofilm made up mostly of sugars, fats, proteins, and DNA. Strings of sugar ...