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New Technologies for Studying Biofilms
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Franklin MJ
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Bacteria have traditionally been studied as single-cell organisms. In laboratory
settings, aerobic bacteria are usually cultured in aerated flasks, where the
cells are considered essentially homogenous. However, in many natural
environments, bacteria and other microorganisms grow in mixed communities, often
associated with surfaces. Biofilms are comprised of surface-associated
microorganisms, their extracellular matrix material, and environmental chemicals
that have adsorbed to the bacteria or their matrix material. While this
definition of a biofilm is fairly simple, biofilms are complex and dynamic. Our
understanding of the activities of individual biofilm cells and whole biofilm
systems has developed rapidly, due in part to advances in molecular, analytical,
and imaging tools and the miniaturization of tools designed to characterize
biofilms at the enzyme level, cellular level, and systems level.
|*Biofilms
[MESH]
|*Microbiological Techniques
[MESH]
|Bacteria/chemistry/genetics/growth & development
[MESH]