Scientists use cow gut enzyme to disrupt bacterial biofilms
pneumoniae biofilm-associated infections." The researchers are now planning on incorporating the enzyme in something wearable ...
Fermented clothing? Here’s how the biofilm on kombucha can be turned into green textiles
Give a bacteria-fungi biofilm access to sweetened tea and you can make not only kombucha – but a fibre vital to making ...
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How Bacterial Communities Divvy up Duties
The slimy coating on unbrushed teeth is biofilm, and the beneficial microbes on your skin and gut often grow collectively. They were killing each other like crazy. —Bonnie Bassler, Princeton ...
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Breaking through the matrix of antibiotic resistance
and as infections in organs such as the skin, heart and lungs. Biofilms are common, occurring in 80% of chronic human infections. Once formed, biofilms physically protect bacteria, shielding them ...