Advanced techniques are allowing scientists to witness the process where plant cells generate cellulose fibers.

That’s another reason antibiotics weren’t working on certain endometritis cases – if there was a biofilm present, it was probably protecting the bacteria’s cell walls from being destroyed ...

The individual cell averages just one ... Schrenk and colleagues (2003) reported that biofilms with a density of >10 8 cells/g were present within the porous walls of active deep-sea sulfide ...

The effect of saccharin on the microbiome has received much attention, but its impact on pathogenic bacterial species is less ...

BioAFM instruments are designed to measure soft, fragile, and complex samples, including single molecules, nucleic acids, ...

In addition, students will examine transposon mutants and transformed bacterial strains to determine which gene products interact with host cell mediators. This work will contribute to a better ...

We are interested in what these algal extracellular matrices can tell us about: 1) the evolution of the land plant cell wall, 2) the unique characteristics that allow for life in aquatic habitats, 3) ...

measure cell-matrix interaction forces, the strength of binding of bacteria to surfaces, and many-body interactions between bacteria during the so-called "quorum sensing" and at later stages of the ...

Biofilms, ubiquitous bacterial communities embedded in a slimy ... the lazy ones that don’t pay the cost of making EPS but are still trying to get into the cell matrix. “It is like a membership card,” ...

In their experiments, the researchers activated the biofilm reducing system by overexpressing genes. But they also discovered that the system is naturally stimulated by cell wall stress.

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose—a major constituent of all plant cell walls—a team of Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers have captured images of the microscopic ...