Water makes up around 60 percent of the human body. More than half of this water sloshes around inside the cells that make up ...

Findings could inform the design of artificial tissues and organs, presenting a potential route for delivering nutrients or therapies.

6b04619. Schematic of serpentine flow field and MFC system, biomass production as a function of energy gain for bacteria growth, evolution of MFC performance during startup, photos of biofilms ...

Rather than being like battery chargers, mitochondria are more like the motherboard of the cell.

Abstract: We report the development of a microfluidic flow-templating platform with multi-modal characterization for studies of biofilms and their precursor materials. A key feature is a special three ...

While biofilms may serve as a reservoir for antibiotic resistance ... and incubated in the channels for 1 h without flow at 25 °C, to allow the cells to colonize the glass substratum. Syringes ...

A soil mineral-bacterial biofilm system was used as a model in this study, and it was analyzed by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) to acquire molecular level information.

Water flow is also an important factor or ... the first application eradicates the bulk of the biofilm cells, leaving the persisters behind. Because the antibiotics are stopped, the survival ...

The biofilm lifestyle provides resident cells with fitness advantages compared to their planktonic ... its mechanical strength and cohesion promotes biofilm integrity against physical challenge such ...

Bacterial biofilms are three-dimensional networks of cells entangled in a self-generated extracellular ... degradation or abstraction activities as the contaminating streams flow past. Analytical ...

But what shapes the architecture and the organization of cells in biofilms ... of fluids are ubiquitous to biofilms," says Rossy. "We wanted to study how flow changes their spatial organization." ...