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Trapping a Bacterium in a Laser Beam Aids Study of Biofilms

May 6, 2014 • by Steven E. Franklin

Biofilms are responsible for most chronic infections and are notoriously resilient and hard to treat.

Two-channel fluorescence image of a stamped pattern of P. aeruginosa in an isotropic background of S. aureus at t = 6 h, after the initial pattern has developed into a localized cluster.