Memoirs of a Defective Brain

A long time ago, a bacterium noticed the odd behaviour of its cousins. It had noticed that they had formed a group, and were spending a lot ...

Ten Things I can now do with a PhD I can introduce myself as the "lu-uurve" doctor to members of the opposite gender. I can fi...

I'd pretty much done everything at this point. Through struggle and sweat and 263 pages of thesis, I found myself edging closer to the ...

It was television that inspired me to devise the perfect murder. Not for the usual reasons relating to scientific inaccuracy. This isn’t abo...

When Alexander Fleming shamelessly took credit for a drug produced by the  penicillium bread mould, our fight against bacteria completely c...

A couple of months ago, for reasons too irritating to get into, my internet got cut off, which made blogging nearly impossible. But then aga...

The latest paper for #microtwjc focuses on finding a new way to sense metabolites inside of living bacteria.  Bacteria need to regulate t...