In infectious disease research, it is widely accepted that disrupting bacterial communication signals is beneficial. But this ...

A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have challenged the widely held assumption in infectious disease research that blocking ...

The development of antibiotic resistant microbial pathogens has become a global health threat and a major concern in modern medicine. The problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has majorly arisen ...

(left) NTU Senior Research Fellow Dr Haris Antypas from SCELSE, who is the first author of the paper, holding a coloured microscopy image of Enterococcus faecalis biofilm on his laptop; (right) ...

What Is Quorum Sensing? Individual bacteria use quorum sensing to detect and respond to changes in cell density as a coordinated group. For example, the first reported evidence of quorum sensing was ...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is notorious for its role in food spoilage and infections, posing a significant threat to both food safety and human health. Traditionally, antimicrobial agents have been the go ...

Bacteria produce slimy biofilms to coat and protect themselves and make them less susceptible to antimicrobial drugs and chemical cleaning products. The biofilms have implications for health and ...

It has been reported that the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and the minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) for biofilm bacteria are 10 to 1000 times higher than the corresponding values for ...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm development occurs in five stages. 1. Reversible attachment: Cells transiently affix to substratum, and surface induced gene expression results in a protein profile ...

Scanning electron microscopy image of Enterococcus faecalis bacteria in a biofilm. Green pseudocolouring was applied with Gemini AI on the original greyscale image for vizualization purposes only. © ...