Thus, the diagnostic and therapeutic strategies used to fight acute infections are not effective in eradicating medical device biofilm-related infections or chronic biofilm diseases. Today ...

It's never a good thing, when a bacterial biofilm forms on the surface of a medical implant. There could soon be a new way of ...

pneumoniae biofilm-associated infections." The researchers are now planning on incorporating the enzyme in something wearable, like a wound dressing. "For local infections, specifically skin ...

Better understanding of the molecular and biophysical interactions within biofilm communities, researchers say, could lead to new strategies to combat infection related to biofilms, which are hard to ...

Bakaletz is among a growing list of scientists looking to treat some of the world's deadliest infections by manipulating the biofilms that enable them. Bacteria are often thought of as free ...

Bacteria can’t “think” but can end up behaving as though they have a herd mentality in this biofilm state. That’s why organisms often can’t clear infections on their own, and why ...

In an agency first, the FDA has cleared a system designed to clean out the complex inner channels of flexible endoscopes—a ...

Known as phage therapy, it uses viruses to kill harmful bacteria in difficult-to-treat infections. Read more at ...

Biofilms are protective three-dimensional structures ... “Further research is needed to assess whether these effects translate to human infections or environmental settings.” ...

Nanosonics has received FDA De Novo clearance for its new Coris system, a technology designed to improve the cleaning of ...