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Biofilms in Space


Vertical growth dynamics of biofilms - PNAS

Biofilms are surface-attached microbial communities composed of cells and extracellular polymeric substance (1–3). Biofilms form when a cell attaches to a ...

Microbial or fungal biofilms on spacecraft can clog hoses and filters ...

Microbial or fungal biofilms on spacecraft can clog hoses and filters, or make astronauts sick. Test conducted on the International Space ...

Competition for Substrate and Space in Biofilms - jstor

KEYWORDS: biofilm, heterotrophs, nitrifiers, substrate. Most biofilms are spatially heterogenous, characterized by complex assemblages of cell types and ...

NASA Space Biology | Facebook - Facebook

The Space Biofilms team, from left to right: University of Colorado, Boulder's (CU) graduate students Rylee Schauer and Pamela Flores, Implementation...

Microbial Tracking-2, a metagenomics analysis of bacteria and fungi ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a unique and complex built environment with the ISS surface microbiome originating from crew and ...

Mechanisms driving spatial distribution of residents in colony biofilms

Biofilms are consortia of microorganisms that form collectives through the excretion of extracellular matrix compounds.

Decreased biofilm formation in Proteus mirabilis after short-term ...

Microbes threaten human health in space exploration. Studies have shown that Proteus mirabilis has been found in human space habitats. In ...

Interactions between biofilms and the environment - Oxford Academic

Bacteria can be free-living (planktonic), but in most natural ecosystems they prefer to grow on interfaces as biofilms; supposedly to take advantage of the ...

On the Response of Halophilic Archaea to Space Conditions - MDPI

Further space flight experiments are currently in preparation, such as the BOSS (Biofilms in Space) experiment. This proposal tests the hypothesis that ...

Decreased Biofilm Formation Ability of a Multidrug-Resistant ...

A space environment provides a unique set of physical conditions, including microgravity (MG), cosmic radiation, and low nutrients (5). Microorganisms always ...

Chemical space guided discovery of antimicrobial bridged bicyclic ...

Two of these AMBPs show strong biofilm inhibition and dispersal activity and enhance the activity of polymyxin, currently a last resort antibiotic against which ...

Florida Space Grant Funds Space Life Science Research

Biofilms are thin, slimy films of bacteria that adhere to surfaces. NASA sent a. August 9, 2024 July 25, 2024 by Caitlin Milera. Florida Space Grant Funds ...

Interactions between host and intestinal crypt-resided biofilms are ...

Mechanistically, a1,2-fucosylation-mediated restriction of biofilms relies on interactions between bacteria and liberated fucose from biofilm- ...

Biofilms In Respiratory Infections and Beyond: A Review

“In many cases, it's not just the organism that's fighting medications, it's the biofilm's matrix,” says Dr. McCoy. The matrix – a shared space ...

File:ISS-65 Kimbrough checks sample packs for Oral Biofilms in ...

iss065e093511 (June 7, 2021) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 65 Flight Engineer Shane Kimbrough checks out sample packs for the Oral Biofilms in Space study.

Competition for substrate and space in biofilms - Wiley Online Library

The competition for substrate in biofilms resulted in a stratified structure with non uniform spatial distributions of biofilm properties, such ...

Space Biofilms - OWSD

All this has broadened my knowledge for this domain of science, gave me an open mind and also allowed me to learn many things. Christelle Noelle Dzesse Tekouo.

Space Biofilms - OWSD

Biomedicine represents the future of healthcare, aiming to intercept diseases before they arise and tailoring solutions to each individual's unique needs. It's ...

Welcome to the BiofilmQ documentation! - Drescher Lab

BiofilmQ is an advanced biofilm analysis tool for quantifying the properties of cells inside 3-dimensional biofilm communities in space and time.

Researchers Use Bacteria From Space to Create New Biofilm

Scientists at Newcastle University have developed a new “super” biofilm using a key component from Earth's stratosphere.