This is the first post of my SGM conference series : I'm going to try and write about seven topics from the Society for General Microb...

So...anyone following me on Twitter probably saw me getting all excited when I signed up to go to the Society of General Microbiology confe...

A while ago, Angry by Choice wrote a post about a fungi that kills its nematode prey by making little lasso ropes to catch the worm in. At...

MRSA, the antibiotic resistant form of Staphylococcus aureus is a major problem in hospitals. The antibiotic resistance makes it hard to er...

Turing patterns are the more common name for "reaction-diffusion patterns" which are found in abundance throughout the natural wor...

I while ago I wrote a post about how virus's get from the outside of the cell to the interior of the nucleus and found that virus parti...

Scientists are only human, and one of the defining features of humanity is the ability to snigger at the thought of bodily waste. Which was ...

I've written about many things on this blog. Bacteria, antibiotics, um, other bacteria. But one thing I haven't really covered is bl...

I seem to be in a bit of an ecosystem mood lately. Having looked at the effect of trees on the soil microbiome last week, today I'm loo...

One of the factors that is occasionally (rather inaccurately) used to separate plants from animals is that plants generally don't move. ...