Antibiotic resistance is by now a well-known phenomenon. Resistance is carried in both antibiotic producing bacteria to protect themselves f...

My synthetic biology project has pretty much ended now, bar the handover. I've got a little more lab work to do (still have one more res...

Like every other form of life, bacteria need nutrients to survive. In the laboratory, these can be provided on agar plates at the perfect ba...

Welcome to the twelfth edition of scientia pro publica (science for the public) hosted here on Lab Rat. This is a blog carnival, designed to...

A cell wall is one of the most important features bacterial cells possess. They provide a barrier against the harsh conditions of the outsid...

I was reading around the posts at ScienceBlogs , when I came across this one by Bioephemera which, while talking about a recent google-doo...

I was reading through all the bioephemera archives that I missed through being hideously busy and was motivated to find something pretty a...

The structure of DNA is a double helix of two sugar-phosphate backbones joined by hydrogen-bonds between nitrogenous bases, as shown below:...

I took a quick break away from synthetic biology and DNA synthesis research the other day, to dive back into my happy little world of antibi...

Sequencing = the process of finding out what base-pairs a piece of DNA consists of ( AAAGGGAAA etc) Synthesis = the process of actually mak...