Flocculation is a key process for controlling the fate and transport of suspended particulate
matter (SPM) in water environments and has received considerable attention in the field of …

Ensuring safe and effective water treatment, distribution, and reuse requires robust methods
for characterizing and monitoring waterborne microbes. Methods widely used today can be …

Background Glacier ice archives information, including microbiology, that helps reveal
paleoclimate histories and predict future climate change. Though glacier-ice microbes are …

Although a number of different methods have been used to quantify soil bacteria, identifying
the optimal method (s) for soil bacterial abundance is still in question. No single method …

Simple, fast, and precise counting of viable bacteria is fundamental to a variety of
microbiological applications such as food quality monitoring and clinical diagnosis. To this …

As a stage of life cycle, larval settlement and metamorphosis are critical processes for
persistence of many marine invertebrate populations. Bacterial biofilms (BFs) could induce …

Biofilm infections involving orthopedic implants are a global problem. They contribute to
severe complications and mortality, as well as increased use of antibiotic treatments and …

Larval settlement and metamorphosis is essential for the development of marine
invertebrates. Although polysaccharides are involved in larval settlement and …

This study is the first to investigate the ingestion of microplastics (MPs), plasticizers,
additives, and particles of micro-litter< 100 μm by larvae of Simuliidae (Diptera) in rivers …

Mycoplasma contamination is commonplace during processing of biopharmaceuticals
necessitating its sterile filtration. Consequently, we measured the passage of Acholeplasma …