Biofilms are complex three-dimensional structures formed at interfaces by the vast majority
of bacteria and fungi. These robust communities have an important detrimental impact on a …

Natural polyphenols have attracted great interests in medicine, food and cosmetics due to
their versatile functions such as antioxidant, anticancer and antibacterial. The polyphenolic …

Bacterial fouling is a persistent problem causing the deterioration and failure of functional
surfaces for industrial equipment/components; numerous human, animal, and plant …

As a chronic metabolic disease, diabetes mellitus (DM) creates a hyperglycemic micromilieu
around implants, resulting inthe high complication and failure rate of implantation because …

It is expected that the projected increased usage of implantable devices in medicine will
result in a natural rise in the number of infections related to these cases. Some patients are …

Microorganisms have been extensively applied as active biotherapeutic agents or drug
delivery vehicles for antitumor treatment because of their unparalleled bio-functionalities …

Bacterial infections represent one of the serious human healthcare threats, and≈ 80% of
bacterial infections are related to biofilm. So far, there are extensive investigations on the …

Current point-of-care lateral flow immunoassays, such as the home pregnancy test, rely on
proteins as detection units (eg antibodies) to sense for analytes. Glycans play a fundamental …

Autoinduction (AI), the response to self-produced chemical signals, is widespread in the
bacterial world. This process controls vastly different target functions, such as luminescence …

There is a continuing quest to rationally fabricate polymeric biomaterials with both high
transfection efficiency and minimal toxicity for the emerging opportunities in small interfering …