Over 80% of opportunistic infections in humans are caused by microbial biofilms. Traditional methods of study for these infections have focused on single species yet there is a wealth of evidence that ...

University of Otago scientists are harnessing the power of peptides—the body's own tiny protein molecules—for a spray to help ...

CHICAGO -- In the arms race between humans and bacteria, the ability to form "biofilms" -- large aggregations of microbes embedded in a slimy matrix -- has been one of the weapons the organisms use to ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. When NASA engineers needed advice on how to keep biofilms from fouling up the wastewater ...

BOZEMAN — Like doctors around the world, Randy Wolcott was confounded by diabetic foot ulcers. When patients would come into his Texas clinic with the small and seemingly harmless sores, caused by the ...

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have uncovered a vulnerability in bacteria that could pave the way for an entirely new class of treatments.

Sitting on her dirt throne and swollen with eggs, a termite queen is tended to by her sterile subjects. All of the insects in the colony are specialists in what they do: Workers forage and construct ...