It's impossible to miss—it's the floating biofilm on top of your delicious ... curious ability to eat sugars and produce bacterial cellulose. The reason we and other researchers are focused ...

Bacteria permeate virtually every corner of the Earth. Most bacteria live in a biofilm state to enhance their survival and propagation, and to perform essential tasks for many ecosystems.

One company that aims to prevent crop loss from drought conditions is CroBio, a UK-based soil regeneration company. CroBio’s formula comprises freeze-dried bacteria dropped into liquid, which becomes ...

Bacterial Space Biofilms (1st flight): Launched on November, 2019 (NG-12). Returned to Earth on January 2020 (SpaceX-19) Fungal Space Biofilms (2nd flight): Launched on February, 2022 (NG-17).

Bacterial communities build biofilms to protect themselves from external threats, such as antibiotics. But researchers are now taking aim at these bacterial shields. “Biofilms can be good ...

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 ...