A round-up of what we read last week in the media's coverage of biofilms and microbiomes research.

and I'll take a minION sequencer as well if you don't mind.

Interspecific interactions are believed to be important for the function of the microbial communities. And in most cases, these interactions can lead to specific spatial organization of microorganisms in multispecies biofilm. Combination of spatial organization and omics anaylsis is definitely a way to reveal the molecular mechanisms underpinning interspecies interactions and bring biofilm research an important step forward.