Although bacteria are often thought of as invading pathogens, not all bacterial interactions are necessarily to the detriment of the host. S...

Finally finished! After four years of stupidly intense work and crazily long holidays I've finally officially finished my degree and lef...

There was an interesting post over at Culturing Science about the widespread dispersal of bacteria which, as well as sporting an amazing h...

The relationship between bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes is an interesting one, and made slightly harder to approach as people tend to lump...

Most places which contain bacteria tend to contain lots of them. In the environment (i.e outside human bodies) bacteria often live in large ...

I've written a post for Lucas at Thoughtomics about how some bacteria can act as little compasses which you can find here . Lucas'...

The more perceptive of my regular readers may have noticed that my blog has now moved to Field of Science, which gives me a snazzy new URL a...

Intracellular parasites have a difficult life. On the one hand, they need to utilise the resources of the host cell, which will ultimately c...

The model for bacterial death by antibiotics was fairly simply until recently. Antibiotics work by targeting a certain area of the bacteria;...

In every environment there will be competition for resources, and there are generally two ways organisms deal with this; generalise or speci...