So, it's been a little quiet around here for the last week or so. Mainly because I went from the state of having a PhD application slidi...

The Carnival of Evolution has arrived at Lab Rat! This is the 35th edition of the Carnival of Evolution, and I'm very excited to be host...

This is the fourth post in my latest SGM series . The social behaviour of bacteria is something that I get very excited about. From the w...

In one weeks time, the Carnival of Evolution is coming to Lab Rat! Like most of the bloggy carnivals floating around, it's a travelling...

This is the third post in my latest SGM series. One of the first topics that I learnt in Biology was that there are two types of things; li...

This is the second post from my latest SGM series . It's a pretty well known fact now that the human body contains lots of bacteria. B...

This is the first of the Spring 2011 SGM series ; where I steal random topics from the Society for General Microbiology Spring Conference a...

The Society for General Microbiology runs regular conferences that concentrate exclusively on the world of the very small. Although I am cu...

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 ...