Dental plaque is a complex biofilm at the heart of oral disease. Learn how it causes cavities and gum inflammation and why ...

Rising rural populations, drought and climate change are making water scarcity a problem in country townships—with more efficient handling of sewage system wastewater part of the solution.

Biofilms are conglomerates of bacteria and other organisms, which are feared in medicine as well as other areas because they can contain pathogens and are highly resistant to treatment. Chemists ...

Biofilms – thin, sticky layers made by microorganisms – may hold the key to understanding how microplastics move and settle in the environment and even inside our bodies. Predicting where these tiny ...

Tiny remote-controlled blob robots may revolutionize infection treatment by eradicating stubborn bacterial biofilms on medical implants with precision and ease.

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

This discovery could also have implications in studies of polymer-secreting conglomerations of bacteria known as biofilms—the ...

UC Riverside scientists have now discovered a chemical that plants produce when they're stressed prevents dangerous biofilm from forming. The breakthrough offers potential advances in ...

A new polymer removes biofilms—mats of microbes and their exuded substances—by mimicking a fluid oozed by barnacles (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c09311). The material could ...

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 ...

For example, wastewater applications are a key area with plenty of opportunities for biofilm development. Nadworny said that agriculture, dentistry, industrial water-cooling systems and food handling ...

Recently, the contribution of bacterial biofilms in disease pathogenesis has been one of the major hypotheses discussed by clinical researchers. In the present study, the high-throughput method was ...