Published online yesterday, October 26, 2015 by Scientific Reports, this paper by Devin B. Holman and Trevor W. Alexander (Lethbridge Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food, Canada) and Edouard Timsitis, University of Calgary, Canada) is now available to view.

Published online on October 14, 2015 by Scientific Reports, this paper by Liyun Wang, Daming Fan and Wei Chen (Jiangnan University, China) and Liyun Wang and Eugene M. Terentjev (University of Cambridge, UK) is now available to view.

Published online on October 15, 2015 by Scientific Reports, this paper by Geunu Bak, Jungmin Lee, Shinae Suk, Daun Kim, Ji Young Lee, Byong-Seok Choi and Younghoon Lee (KAIST, Korea) and Kwang-sun Kim (KRIBB, Korea) is now available to view.

A new paper in Nature this week shows that bacteria in biofilms talk to each other by potassium waves through ion channels.

Published online yesterday by Scientific Reports, this paper by Xiangling Zhang, Lu Guo and Congying Ruan (Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China) and Yafen Wang (China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China) is now available to view.

Professor Eva Sapi works on slime-like biofilms where Borrelia bacteria can hide during antibiotic treatment.

Programming a Human Commensal Bacterium to Sense and Respond to Stimuli in the Murine Gut Microbiota

"Mixing natural isolates of the pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa shows that the formation of biofilm is a response to antibiotic stress from competing genotypes."

An interesting example of host's adaptation to its niche being facilitated by its microbiome

This webcast explores how microbiome-related research activities are being used in the development of nutritional interventions aimed at improving human health.