Existing as a bacteria is tough, especially on your own. For a pathogenic strain it's even worse, not only do they face the challenges o...

Next term I'm taking a short course on plastid evolution (e.g chloroplasts), as it was the choice that came closest to my beloved bacter...

As part of my course last year, I wrote an extended long essay concerning the use of bacteria in biorefineries. As I've had a very lazy ...

Cancer is a disease of multicellular organisms. In order to become multicellular, a certain amount of control needs to be exerted over each ...

Bacterial (and archaeal) signalling systems are remarkably similar to eukaryotic ones. As well as the typical and well described two-compone...

I've been blogging quite a lot about actual science lately (which is good) so I think I'm excused one quick blog post about being a ...

I decided to take a break from bacteria today and decided it might be fun to just choose something totally random to write about. Taking a d...

One of the things about working in a research lab, is that it's very easy to get lost in the little world that you're currently work...

I was hoping to get another paper-analysis post in before I left, but I ran out of time. I'm off to America tomorrow morning (*early* to...

Sequencing DNA has become a major industry. The genetic code of an organism contains huge amounts of data, and the potential for a greater u...