Communications Biology (Jan 2023)

Instantaneous Clearing of Biofilm (iCBiofilm): an optical approach to revisit bacterial and fungal biofilm imaging

  • Shinya Sugimoto,
  • Yuki Kinjo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04396-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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A new clearing and imaging technique termed iCBiofilm is developed for imaging whole bacterial and fungal biofilms using confocal laser scanning microscopy, which enables examining the dynamics and functions of biofilms.