Liquid crystals – yes the same as the ones in your calculator — may soon save lives: they’ll be detecting deadly bacterial infections. It turns out liquid crystals are incredibly sensitive ...

Biofilms—slimy communities of bacteria—grow on all sorts of surfaces: from glaciers and hot springs to plant roots, your bathtub and fridge, wounds, and medical devices such as catheters. Most ...

In a world overrun with plastic garbage, causing untold environmental woes, University of Houston assistant professor of ...

In the liquid culture, P. aeruginosa boomed and completely outcompeted the other two species after about three days. However, in the biofilm environment, the researchers saw a very different ...

Now, a team of researchers is trying to better understand how liquid crystals, combined with bacteria, form living materials and how the two interact to organize and move.

Cupron Performance Additives announced the launch of Cupron Clear™ — a revolutionary new liquid microbial copper platform. Cupron Clear™ is a transparent, stable, and highly efficacious liquid form of ...

To investigate, the researchers grew the three bacterial species on a glass surface conducive to biofilm development and in a well-mixed liquid culture. They "seeded" an equal number of each species ...

Now, a team of researchers is trying to better understand how liquid crystals, combined with bacteria, form living materials and how the two interact to organize and move.

Certain types of swimming bacteria can lower the viscosity of an ordinary liquid, sometimes even turning it into a superfluid, according to work done by researchers in France. The team studied how the ...