Well, I know things have been a little silent around this blog, and there are a couple of reasons for this. One of them I can't say, and...

Neisseria meningitidis is a bacteria which lives in the throats of around 30% of the human population. In most cases it causes no problems ...

I like studying bacteria. I find them fascinating, wonderful little creatures, able to do as much (and often more!) with a single cell as ot...

Last Tuesday was the Brit Design Award of the Year Nominees party. It took place in the Design Museum in London, which was full of wonderf...

For those who didn't catch the news when it first came out, the iGEM project I carried out in the summer of '09 has been nominated...

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...