Biofilm Infections: Horror Shows Not Made In Hollywood

Saturday, November 6, 2010 - 04:20 in Biology & Nature

Many bacteria spend much of their existence within a matrix that they create, called biofilm. Biofilm consists of mucopolysaccharide (or slime-like, think “The Blob” from the 1950s) structures produced by microorganisms as a defense mechanism against their environment.  read more

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