Talk:Biofilm

message: See Talk:Bacterial lawn for the origins of this page. Jmeppley 21:20, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: From footnote 3, "Kim Lewis. Research Description -- works on antibiotic resistance and drug discovery, persister cells, and unculturable bacteria." (identical parts in bold):
Persisters are not mutants, but phenotypic variants of the wild type. We developed a method to isolate persisters and obtained their gene profile, which points to a dormancy program that is turned on in these cells (Keren et al., 2004). We find that proteins known as “toxins” that form toxin/antitoxin modules participate in persister formation.  “Toxins” appear to be the exact opposite of what their name suggests, they reversibly block important processes such as translation, protecting the cell from bactericidal antibiotics that are ineffective against inactive targets. 
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Persisters are not mutants, but phenotypic variants of the wild type. He developed a method to isolate persisters and obtained their gene profile, which pointed to a dormancy program that is turned on in these cells. He found that proteins known as “toxins” forming toxin/antitoxin modules are largely responsible for persister formation. “Toxins” appear to be the exact opposite of what their name suggests, they reversibly block important processes such as translation, protecting the cell from bactericidal antibiotics that are ineffective against inactive targets.
Originalname37 (talk) 20:39, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plagiarism 

message: Could someone mention stromatolites? I have little knowledge as I only learnt about them watching "Earth", that BBC documentary with a scotsman. --Squidonius (talk) 15:21, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stromatolite 

message: I was about to edit Bacterial_mat to include Media:Bacteria mats near Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone-750px.JPG instead of the link to the nonfree image, but I noticed that most of the limited content available in the Bacterial mat article is superceeded by this Biofilm article.  I don't think any content actually needs to be integrated into this article, a simple redirect on the Bacterial mat page will do.  Thoughts?  Deculpep (talk) 13:26, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: * Hmmmm,. this appears not to have been done. Fixed now. -- MarcoTolo (talk) 18:21, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bacterial_mat Merge 

message: I deleted the final sentence because it does not make sense, unlike the rest of the article.
"The bacterial strains identification of the biofilms isolated from the dental plaque or from the biofilms attached to the surfaces of some dental alloys, impression materials, dental implants, restorative and cement materials play an essential role concerning the biofilms establishment dynamics towards the physical-chemical properties of the materials which biofilms are attached to."
It appears to be copied directly from the translated abstract of  the journal article referenced. 
While the surface properties of the substrate may well affect the dynamics of biofilm establishment, the identification of the strains involved does not actually play a role in this process.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.3.255.103 (talk) 22:17, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dental Plaque 

message: Here are some additional aspects that can be considered for adding to the article:
* Biofilms are frequently studied in bacillus subtilis growing on an agar surface in a petri dish. Reference
* Biofilms are structured and sometimes stable enough that they can be considered a unique and cladistic multicellular organism, particularly when they contain cells of one species.
* Biofilms are characteristically non-wetting to their substrate, more so than any other natural structure. Reference
* Biofilms usually are structured into layers, with each layer containing a specialized cell type, even when all cells are of a single species.
* Biofilms usually contain a fixed but growing structure of liquid-conducting tubules or streamers whose beautiful patterns can be seen easily in microscopic movies. Reference Reference Reference Reference
* Biofilms are sometimes used to deliver phage therapy.
David Spector (talk) 18:53, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional aspects for adding 

message: I am currently working on adding a new section to this page title Biofilms in the food industry. This will be added to the page below the biofilms in medicine section.mI am describing how biofilms affect food and food processing and the impacts biofilms can have. I plan to make changes to the page between April 5 and April 8. Huntwc (talk) 17:05, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Section 

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replies: text: I clicked on the first reference and received an error message.Student100000 (talk) 12:32, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I would suggest putting the properties of biofilms before the section on its formation.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Student100000 (talk • contribs) 16:25, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Organization  

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