6) In a report to the New York Ophthalmological Society in 1912, Knapp noted that some patients who underwent cataract surgery later manifested clinical signs of dystrophia epithelialis with stromal and epithelial oedema, as described by Fuchs; (7) this is now known as pseudophakic bullous keratopathy (PBK), which is a complication of cataract ...
A biofilm is any group of microorganisms in which cells stick to each other and often also to a surface. These adherent cells become embedded within a slimy extracellular matrix that is composed of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS).
Answer Wiki. Researchers have begun to (informally) describe biofilms as multicellular organisms. Biofilms are organized masses of single celled organisms which undergo complex signalling exchanges in order to organize themselves. Biofilms will form when an autoinducer such as an acyl-homoserine-lactone (which functions via a positive feedback loop) reaches a critical concentration.