Nowadays there are many different techniques for looking at gene and protein structure and functions. You can make protein crystal structure...

A quick skim through this blog reveals fairly quickly that I have a slight fixation on bacteria. I like to research them, read about them, ...

Antibiotics can attack many targets in bacteria, and one very popular targets is the bacterial cell wall. Bacteria have been fighting natura...

The cell wall is extremely important for bacteria, as it allows them to maintain their existence as a single celled organism, and protects ...

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...