Throughout the biological world, bacteria thrive predominantly in surface-attached, matrix-enclosed, multicellular communities or biofilms, as opposed to isolated planktonic cells. This choice of lifestyle is not trivial, as it involves major shifts in the use of genetic information and cellular energy, and has profound consequences for bacterial physiology and survival. Growth within a biofilm can thwart immune function and antibiotic therapy and thereby complicate the treatment of infectious diseases, especially chronic and foreign device-associated infections. Modern studies of many...
Throughout the biological world, bacteria thrive predominantly in surface-attached, matrix-enclosed, multicellular communities or biofilms, as opposed...
Bonnie simply wanted a break after graduating from college. But unexpected things happened during a trip to Europe and she didn't return home for years. When Bonnie needed money, she did anything from working as a barmaid on an army base in Germany to helping the owner of an antique shop on a beach in Kenya; the red Volkswagen she bought in Germany often doubled as a hotel. Readers will be transported as the author attempts to drive from Cairo to Capetown in a post-colonial world and later, when she falls for a tall dark Frenchman and motors with him down the Usumacinta River searching for...
Bonnie simply wanted a break after graduating from college. But unexpected things happened during a trip to Europe and she didn't return home for y...
