As families gear up for summer outings to pools and lakes, experts are emphasizing the importance of choosing the right ...

As temperatures climb across North Texas, the pool professionals at Clear Choice Pool Care emphasize the importance of ...

In biofilm infections, the combination was even more effective, reducing the antibiotic concentration needed by more than 40-fold, and eliminating 100% of bacteria at clinically feasible doses.

A soft matter physicist reveals how interactions within simple cellular collectives can lead to emergent physical traits. Biofilms lead lives of liminality. Just a few cells thick, these layered ...

Once the biofilm-eradication process is complete, the robot gets removed from the body via a laparoscopically-inserted magnet. In lab tests performed on an extracted pig digestive system, the ...

Heidelberg and its capacity to prevent biofilm formation on polystyrene surfaces and to compare with a broad-spectrum disinfectant, an alkaline detergent, and an acid detergent. Aliquots of 200 μL of ...

Dangerous bacterial biofilms have a natural enemy Discovery could help prevent infections Date: January 11, 2025 Source: University of California - Riverside Summary: Scientists have now ...

If your teeth have ever felt fuzzy after skipping a brushing, you've encountered biofilm—a slimy bacterial layer that clings to surfaces. In medical settings, biofilms make infections harder to ...

Biofilms—slimy communities of bacteria—grow on all sorts of surfaces: from glaciers and hot springs to plant roots, your bathtub and fridge, wounds, and medical devices such as catheters. Most ...

This PSMα1 structure provides insights into how biofilm-forming functional amyloids assemble and ... were added at appropriate concentrations to the cell pools with one cell pool having water added as ...

The National Institutes of Health has awarded the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center nearly $500,000 to help combat biofilm to treat chronic wounds better. According to the university, Kendra ...

More surprisingly due to very high levels of irradiation, the genera Variovorax and Sphingomonas have been identified in the core cooling pool of an operating nuclear reactor in France (Petit et al., ...