A new blog has turned up at the Nature Scitable blog-network: ConferenceCast . This blog is managed by no other than your now-not-very-anony...

Antibiotics are effective against bacteria because they target and knock out specific functions that are vital for bacterial survival. As mo...

There's been a slight lul in the actual science here as I'm preparing for a couple of very exciting bloggy things right now which in...

Last year I made six New Years resolutions. Strictly speaking, I didn't actually keep any of them, but I made the effort and that count...

Eukaryotes - animals, plants, and other creatures with a nucleus, evolve relatively slowely. Genetic variation occurs through changes in the...

In a move that has been in the works for some time, FoS has gotten a nice new makeover which means that the more perceptive of may readers m...

This guest post comes from a real life friend of mine (yes I do have friends in real life). He's currently doing a PhD in developmental ...

This guest post comes from my fiancé who is a Psychiatrist. I've been very excited about this post for a while, because unlike me, he is...

The fifth issue of the MolBio carnival is here! We've got loads of great entries in this edition, all focusing on the mysterious world i...

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...