Cholera bacteria use hair-like appendages called pili to attach to surfaces. In this image, the pili are labeled with a fluorescent green dye. (Image credit: Fitnat Yildiz and Kyle Floyd) ...

Biofilms of the fungus Candida albicans produce extracellular matrix that confers such properties as adherence and drug resistance. Our prior studies indicate that the matrix is complex, with major ...

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 ...

Biofilms are communities of microbial cells that are encapsulated within a self-produced polymeric matrix. The matrix is critical to the success of biofilms in diverse habitats; however, many details ...

University of Otago scientists are harnessing the power of peptides—the body's own tiny protein molecules—for a spray to help ...

A groundbreaking new study led by Georgia Institute of Technology's Aawaz Pokhrel and published in Nature Physics has revealed that geometry influences biofilm growth more than anything else, ...

Studying bacterial biofilms, scientists have discovered that mechanical forces within them are sufficient to deform the soft material they grow on, e.g. biological tissues, suggesting a 'mechanical' ...

Microscopy images of bacteria strains, one, top, producing fimbriae as normal and one with high level of MEcPP unable to produce the fimbriae. If your teeth have ever felt fuzzy after skipping a ...

The pervasive nature of plastic pollution makes it an incredibly difficult problem to tackle, but lately we're seeing how microscopic organisms might offer us a helping hand. This has included the ...

Sitting on her dirt throne and swollen with eggs, a termite queen is tended to by her sterile subjects. All of the insects in the colony are specialists in what they do: Workers forage and construct ...