Seaweeds have received huge interest in recent years given their promising potentialities.
Their antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antitumor, hypolipemic, and anticoagulant effects are …

The widespread use of antibiotics in the past 80 years has saved millions of human lives,
facilitated technological progress and killed incalculable numbers of microbes, both …

Quorum sensing (QS) refers to the capacity of bacteria to monitor their population density
and regulate gene expression accordingly: the QS-regulated processes deal with …

Marine algal seaweed species are often regarded as an underutilized bioresource, many
have been used as a source of food, industrial raw materials, and in therapeutic and …

Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest challenges of the twenty-first century. However,
the increasing understanding of bacterial pathogenesis and intercellular communication has …

Numerous species of bacteria employ a mechanism of intercellular communication known
as quorum sensing. This signaling process allows the cells comprising a bacterial colony to …

Food spoilage is a complex process and excessive amounts of foods are lost due to
microbial spoilage even with modern day preservation techniques. Despite the …

It has become increasingly and widely recognised that bacteria do not exist as solitary cells,
but are colonial organisms that exploit elaborate systems of intercellular communication to …

Novel molecular tools have been constructed which allow for in situ detection of N-acyl
homoserine lactone (AHL)-mediated quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms …

In the last three decades the discovery of metabolites with biological activities from
macroalgae has increased significantly. However, despite the intense research effort by …