It's impossible to miss—it's the floating biofilm on top of your delicious ... As the microbes feed on the sugar, they spin out cellulose fiber and form a dense mat able to be harvested and ...

Learn about innovative nanoflowers made from copper and tannic acid that enhance wound healing and fight infections ...

New technology can separate the fibers in the sugar beet pulp left over after sugar production. Part of the fiber can be used ...

“Microplastics are like rafts — a bacteria on its own might not be able to swim down a river, but riding in its biofilm on a tiny bit of plastic it can be disseminated into many different ...

the health effects of dietary fiber, the efficiency of energy extraction from biofuels, among others. In aquatic ecosystems, algal extracellular polymers play a pivotal role in maintaining the ...

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.

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 ...

Testing UV light through side-emitting optical fibers (SEOFs): (a) Westerhoff and his team created an experimental setup for growing biofilm on an Inconel plate coupon with irradiation from SEOFs ...

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).