Memoirs of a Defective Brain

The man arrived at a hospital with severe genital lesions, infection with a disgusting cocktail of different diseases. He said that these le...

The the Japanese quail is a plump and fluffy little creature. Some would say it is adorable, with its round physique and small stature. But ...

This weeks Microbiology Twitter Journal club focuses on the electrifying bacterium known as  Shewanella . This species of bacteria has been ...

We begin this week's TMI Friday with a crime scene. Let us examine the scene of the crime, and try to work out what happened. The incid...

There is a turn of phrase, "Screwing the pooch" which described doing something so catastrophically wrong that the failure is as d...

This is a story about the most important human antibiotic you've never heard of. It is one that has protected us long before Fleming, Do...

In some ways, I envy the USA. Every citizen has a right to arm themselves with an array of high power assault weapons. Every citizen has the...