Researchers Develop Microbubble Scrubber to Destroy Dangerous Biofilms

9/20/2018

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New Atlas (Sept. 20) -- Get enough bacteria in one place and they like to settle down into longer-term colonies, building sticky biofilms that protect them from our best cleaning efforts. But now, researchers from the U. of I. have designed a technique that uses microbubbles as a scrubber to blast biofilms away. Also: R&D Magazine (Sept. 19), Infection Control Today (Sept. 19), Nanowork (Sept. 19), Medical Device Network (Sept. 21)


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This story was published September 20, 2018.