I was hoping to avoid this by maybe writing some future-posts to appear during the holidays, but time just ran out on me. So I'll be goi...

I'm on holiday at the moment, so today's post is another section from my long essay last year, about the potential uses of biorefine...

The most commonly used distinction in bacterial populations is that of Gram negative and Gram positive bacteria. They are named after the me...

Protein crystallography is one of those mysterious things that I always feel I should know more about. It starts with protein crystals, fair...

Having taken a brief look at some plastids last week , I thought I should probably balance things out by writing about mitochondria; the en...

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...