Once attached, the bacteria created a biofilm: a sticky material that protects microbes from invaders and keeps them fixed to ...

Microplastics provide an excellent bacterial breeding ground that may be contributing to the growing problem of ...

Infection and inflammation: All sorts of bacteria proliferate on the dead tissue that accumulates in these wounds, forming what we call a biofilm. Bacterial biofilms embed in and around the necrotic ...

Biofilms, ubiquitous bacterial communities embedded in a slimy matrix, are the oldest form of multicellularity on Earth; they ...

To put that in perspective, the Earth is thought to be about 4.5 billion years old, which means these "rocks"—really ...

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