Microbial biofilm: a review on formation, infection, antibiotic resistance, control measures, and innovative treatment

S Sharma, J Mohler, SD Mahajan, SA Schwartz… - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Biofilm is complex and consists of bacterial colonies that reside in an exopolysaccharide
matrix that attaches to foreign surfaces in a living organism. Biofilm frequently leads to …

Antimicrobial stewardship: fighting antimicrobial resistance and protecting global public health

MAA Majumder, S Rahman, D Cohall… - Infection and drug …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a serious threat to global public health. It increases
morbidity and mortality, and is associated with high economic costs due to its health care …

Cell-based strategies for IVD repair: clinical progress and translational obstacles

ALA Binch, JC Fitzgerald, EA Growney… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration is a major cause of low back pain, a prevalent and
chronic condition that has a striking effect on quality of life. Currently, no approved …

Anti-CRISPR protein applications: natural brakes for CRISPR-Cas technologies

ND Marino, R Pinilla-Redondo, B Csörgő… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Clustered, regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and CRISPR-
associated (Cas) genes, a diverse family of prokaryotic adaptive immune systems, have …

Perspective on enhancing the anaerobic digestion of waste activated sludge

Y Xu, Y Lu, L Zheng, Z Wang, X Dai - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2020 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion (AD) of waste activated sludge (WAS) is an important bio-energy
strategy that has been hindered by low conversion efficiency. This paper presents a …

[HTML][HTML] Biofilms: Formation, drug resistance and alternatives to conventional approaches

R Mirghani, T Saba, H Khaliq, J Mitchell, L Do… - AIMS …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Biofilms are aggregates of bacteria, in most cases, which are resistant usually to broad-
spectrum antibiotics in their typical concentrations or even in higher doses. A trend of …

High-throughput and all-solution phase African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) detection using CRISPR-Cas12a and fluorescence based point-of-care system

Q He, D Yu, M Bao, G Korensky, J Chen, M Shin… - Biosensors and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Here we report the development of a high throughput, all-solution phase, and isothermal
detection system for African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV). CRISPR-Cas12a programmed with a …

Integrating CRISPR/Cas within isothermal amplification for point-of-Care Assay of nucleic acid

L Zhang, H Jiang, Z Zhu, J Liu, B Li - Talanta, 2022 - Elsevier
Nucleic acid detection technology is now widely used in scientific research and clinical
testing, such as infectious and genetic diseases screening, molecular diagnosis of tumors …

How CRISPR-Cas system could be used to combat antimicrobial resistance

P Gholizadeh, Ş Köse, S Dao, K Ganbarov… - Infection and drug …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Rapid emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has made it harder for us to combat
infectious diseases and to develop new antibiotics. The clustered regularly interspaced short …

Endogenous type I CRISPR-Cas: from foreign DNA defense to prokaryotic engineering

Y Zheng, J Li, B Wang, J Han, Y Hao… - … in bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Establishment of production platforms through prokaryotic engineering in microbial
organisms would be one of the most efficient means for chemicals, protein, and biofuels …