In an innovative study that promises to reduce production costs for the most potent form of vitamin K, Menaquinone-7, researchers have developed a novel method to enhance the fermentation process that ...

Bacterial biofilms could form the basis of a new biomaterial system with a range of tunable properties from fluorescence to tailored chemical activity. Work by a collaboration of researchers led by ...

Ethylene is one of the most important and widely used organic chemicals. A research group has designed a thin-layer artificial biofilm with embedded cyanobacterial cell factories which were ...

Biofilms are multicellular networks that can grow almost anywhere. These slime-encased microbial colonies can survive harsh conditions and develop resistance to antimicrobial agents such as ...

Paul McInerney receives funding from the Murray Darling Basin Authority and the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office. You might have noticed it after sliding on a rock in a Melbourne creek. Or it ...

Sitting on her dirt throne and swollen with eggs, a termite queen is tended to by her sterile subjects. All of the insects in the colony are specialists in what they do: Workers forage and construct ...

Microscopy images of bacteria strains, one, top, producing fimbriae as normal and one with high level of MEcPP unable to produce the fimbriae. If your teeth have ever felt fuzzy after skipping a ...