I haven't worked very much with bacteria that infect humans. Most of my lab work has been done in the fields of either synthetic biology...

Oil is formed from hydrocarbons: organic compounds which consist soley of the elements hydrogen and carbon. There are many, many different t...

I've written about biofilms a couple of times before but it's an interesting enough topic to keep returning to. As a brief summer...

I'm away this weekend sorting out weddings and grad applications, so have a video! This is probably the best explanation of antibody str...

DNA is one of the most important components of the cell. In eukaryote cells (i.e the cells of humans and plants) it is stored inside a nucle...

A couple of fairly exciting things have happened in my internet-world over the last few days and I thought I'd share them: I HAVE A GUES...

All microbiologists end up writing about gut bacteria at some point. It is the way of things. Disease of the Week is currently doing a wh...

There are quite a few bacteria that, when times are hard, are able to put themselves into a state of metabolic inactivity. They are still te...

A while ago, I got sent an email with a short little list of questions asking whether I'd like to be interviewed for the Science and Tec...

Bacterial cell division is usually quite a regular business. As I mentioned previously , not all bacteria use the regular FtsZ ring method o...