Montana State Professor Mentioned in The Economist Article About Biofilms

From MSU News Service

BOZEMAN – Montana State University professor Matthew Fields was mentioned in a Sept. 27 article in The Economist magazine about technologies that may help fight destructive biofilms. Fields is a professor in the Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering and the College of Agriculture and director of MSU's Center for Biofilm Engineering.

"Matthew Fields, a microbiologist at Montana State University, reckons that most of the bacteria living on the planet exist in colonies," states the article, which explains in detail how bacteria aggregate into colonies, or biofilms, where th...