The interaction of bacteria with surfaces has important implications in a range of areas,
including bioenergy, biofouling, biofilm formation, and the infection of plants and animals …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is often resistant to multiple antibiotics and consequently has
joined the ranks of 'superbugs' due to its enormous capacity to engender resistance. It …

Unlike conventional antimicrobials, the study of bacterial resistance to silver nanoparticles
(AgNPs) remains in its infancy and the mechanism (s) through which it evolves are limited …

Obesity is associated with low-grade chronic inflammation and intestinal dysbiosis.
Ganoderma lucidum is a medicinal mushroom used in traditional Chinese medicine with …

Bacteria form multicellular communities known as biofilms that cause two thirds of all
infections and demonstrate a 10 to 1000 fold increase in adaptive resistance to conventional …

How bacteria regulate, assemble and rotate flagella to swim in liquid media is reasonably
well understood. Much less is known about how some bacteria use flagella to move over the …

Bacteria are among the oldest and most abundant species on Earth. Bacteria successfully
colonize diverse habitats and play a significant role in the oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen …

Individual swimming bacteria are known to bias their random trajectories in search of food
and to optimize survival. The motion of bacteria within a swarm, wherein they migrate as a …

Microbial communities span many orders of magnitude, ranging in scale from hundreds of
cells on a single particle of soil to billions of cells within the lumen of the gastrointestinal …

Biofilms cause up to 80% of infections and are difficult to treat due to their substantial
multidrug resistance compared to their planktonic counterparts. Based on the observation …