Biofilms: They’re Inside You!

28 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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This content was created by Matt Kelly. This content was uploaded by Matt Kelly. This is a YouTube video titled "Biofilms: They’re Inside You!" (created 2024-06-28) containing an informational spoken segment in English by a single presenter (labeled SPEAKER A). The speaker explains what biofilms are, highlights their ubiquity in marine environments and human mouths, and discusses how they were studied early in oceanography and dentistry (including microscopy and links to dental caries and microbial community formation).

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Biofilms are not just in humans and other mammals. They're all over our world. They were first really looked at in oceanography and dentistry. Those are the 2 places that they've been really well described. So they're in wet places. You can think of it that way. In oceanography, biofilms are just a way that you think of how massive the ocean is. And then you might have microbial communities, et cetera. They're going to get lost and not be able to do their community thing if they don't have a place to stay? Well, if you go to humans, the reason we discovered them in the mouth first is it's easy to get to, and people started doing microscopy of what is it that are in dental caries, or what is it in, you know, things that might be leading to the decay of teeth, etc.