Two-Component Systems are one of the major sensory systems used by bacteria to detect and respond to changes in both their outside environme...

I went down to London for the weekend to see an exhibition by the Royal College of Art entitled "Impact!" which was a colaboratio...

Sigma is doing a promotion/competition thing at the moment called " Where bio begins " which seems quite interesting. The aim is t...

I've just come to the end of my project for this year. Last week was the usual flurry of tidying, organising the freezer, and making sur...

I've written a lot about bacteria and plants over the last few weeks, so in celebration of the fact that my project is finally on it...

" What does “equal rights for all” mean to you ?" It means being able to look at any other person in the world and being able to t...

I'm trying to personalise my blog a little more, so that it doesn't look the same as all the other blogs written by people who like ...

Over at Thoughtomics , Lucas has a post up about the evolution of mitochondrial import systems. He starts by going back in time two billion...

A while ago I wrote about the Great Oxidation Event , the point way back in the history of the earth where a lot of little blobby organisms ...

'Omics' words tend to get a large amount of bad press in biology. Starting fairly sensibly with genomics, the group expanded to incl...