This is the first time in ten years that I haven't had an exam around summer-time. It feels odd, everyone around me is either exam-stres...

In posts one and two of this mini-series I explored how plants can defend against bacteria by releasing dangerous chemicals and by killing...

The first post of this mini-series covered how plants can defend themselves against bacterial attack by releasing chemicals, either on a re...

Although I've never officially studied immunology, my second year course in Pathology left me with a pretty solid idea of how humans def...

It's been in the news a lot, but for those who've missed it there's a particularly deadly strain of E. coli that has reared its...

This is the eleventh edition of the Carnival of Molecular Biology , a travelling goodie-bag dealing with all things small and cellular. Whe...

For those of you who might have missed my writing, I've written a piece for the Varsity magazine "Not-Sci" section, which exam...

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...