Microfluidics has significantly contributed to the expansion of the frontiers of microbial
ecology over the past decade by allowing researchers to observe the behaviors of microbes …

Bacteria in natural and artificial environments often reside in self-organized, integrated
communities known as biofilms. Biofilms are highly structured entities consisting of bacterial …

John Dupré explores recent revolutionary developments in biology and considers their
relevance for our understanding of human nature and human society. Epigenetics and …

How a single bacterium becomes a colony of many thousand cells is important in
biomedicine and food safety. Much is known about the molecular and genetic bases of this …

One of the major challenges in modern biology is to understand how the molecular
components of a living cell operate in a highly noisy environment. What are the specific …

Bacteria communicate via short-range physical and chemical signals, interactions known to
mediate quorum sensing, sporulation, and other adaptive phenotypes. Although most in vitro …

Many bacterial species colonize surfaces and form dense 3D structures, known as biofilms,
which are highly tolerant to antibiotics and constitute one of the major forms of bacterial …

Antibiotic-resistant isolates of Salmonella enterica were selected on plates containing lethal
concentrations of rifampicin, kanamycin, and nalidixic acid. The stability of the resistance …

The structure of bacterial populations is governed by the interplay of many physical and
biological factors, ranging from properties of surrounding aqueous media and substrates to …

Microbes frequently live in nature as small, densely packed aggregates containing∼ 101–
105 cells. These aggregates not only display distinct phenotypes, including resistance to …