Studying ancient bacteria can be a little difficult. Despite having wonderfully complex internal biochemistry and fascinating ecological int...

I'm very excited about this post, which is a guest post from my sister! She's an undergrad doing biochemistry at Bristol University,...

I've already shown you pictures of the glowing bacterial lightbulbs , but in terms of glowing products the cambridge iGEM team is goi...

Bacterial cell division is one of those fairly well studied areas, where time and much study has come forth with a nice standard model. One ...

Got back from the conference last night, absolutely shattered. I had a great time, and the presentation was really well recieved, everyone s...

I'm off at a conference in Italy this week, where I'll be doing a presentation about the iGEM work from last year along with some ...

The SGM autumn conference is now over - thanks to everyone who tweeted it so people like me could catch up on events without actually going...

The fifth post now in the SGM series , and this one focuses on Acid Stress . As I covered in a previous post , bacteria are able to survive...

The fourth post now in the SGM series , and this one focuses on Streptococci . Streptococci are a genus of spherical Gram-positive bacteria...

This is the third post in the SGM series and this one is about Extremophiles . There were lots of talks in this topic, so instead of a serio...