Increasing rates of infection by antibiotic resistant bacteria have led to a resurgence of
interest in bacteriophage (phage) therapy. Several phage therapy studies in animals and …

The increasing incidence of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and the increasing severity
of the course of these diseases create the need for developing new methods of therapy. The …

Synthetic polymers are omnipresent in society as textiles and packaging materials, in
construction and medicine, among many other important applications. Alternatively, natural …

A number of cationic antimicrobial peptides, effectors of innate immunity, are supposed to
act at the cytoplasmic membrane leading to permeabilization and eventually membrane …

Carbohydrates comprise a large fraction of the typical diet, yet humans are only able to
directly process some types of starch and simple sugars. The remainder transits the large …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have remarkably different structures as well as biological
activity profiles, whereupon most of these peptides are supposed to kill bacteria via …

Cellular mechanical properties play an integral role in bacterial survival and adaptation.
Historically, the bacterial cell wall and, in particular, the layer of polymeric material called the …

Gram-positive organisms, including the pathogens Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus
pneumoniae, and Enterococcus faecalis, have dynamic cell envelopes that mediate …

In this brief overview of a large and complex subject, as presented at the 2018 Surfactants in
Solution conference, the need for, and impact of, hard surface antimicrobial products is …

Monoderm bacteria possess a cell envelope made of a cytoplasmic membrane and a cell
wall, whereas diderm bacteria have and extra lipid layer, the outer membrane, covering the …