🔎We use SEM to examine biofilms grown on epidermal sheets. Biofilms are found on skin and in wounds. Microbes in biofilms are much more resistant to antibiotics. Biofilm models help us develop new antibacterials.
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Excited to share some of our brilliant images from our skin microbiome projects all provided by PhD student @PaulNor19002072 for #BiofilmWeek
🔎 We culture microbes on human skin ex vivo and can see them using scanning electron microscopy
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Filming (bio)films 📷🔬🦠 𝘚. 𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘶𝘴 biofilm formed on a glass coverslip after 24 hours. Did you know bacteria within a biofilm are more resistant to antibiotics and are more capable of transferring resistant genes? #BiofilmsInTheLab#BiofilmAware@ukbiofilms