EvolutionFebruary 1, 2013
The Carnival of Evolution: World Travel Edition!
Stories by S.E. Gould
A biochemist with a love of microbiology, the Lab Rat enjoys exploring, reading about and writing about bacteria. Having finally managed to tear herself away from university, she now works for a small company in Cambridge where she turns data into manageable words and awesome graphs.
The SciencesJanuary 27, 2013
The bacteria that use cholesterol to get into cells.
The SciencesJanuary 20, 2013
Making sugar from carbon dioxide: The Calvin Cycle
HealthJanuary 13, 2013
Toxic Little Molecules
The SciencesJanuary 6, 2013
Not all biofilms are equal: The hyper-biofilm of P. aeruginosa
The SciencesDecember 3, 2012
What makes things acid: The pH scale
EvolutionNovember 25, 2012
How the animals lost their sensors
The SciencesNovember 11, 2012
Shine on you crazy diamond: why humans are carbon-based lifeforms
The SciencesNovember 4, 2012
How to milk a pigeon
HealthOctober 28, 2012
The changing microflora of bacteria in the lungs
HealthOctober 21, 2012
Bacteria that work together to cause infection
HealthOctober 14, 2012
Fighting bacteria with copper
HealthOctober 7, 2012
Cystitis: How bacteria get into your bladder
HealthSeptember 23, 2012
Guest Post: Flesh-eating bacteria
HealthSeptember 17, 2012
Developing new antibiotic compounds: Dual-targeting inhibitors
The SciencesSeptember 9, 2012
iGEM Buenos Aires: Synthetic bacterial communities
The SciencesSeptember 2, 2012
The bacteria that make insects eat their own brains
HealthAugust 26, 2012
Tiny RNA fragments control bacterial infections
The SciencesAugust 21, 2012
Butterfly Watch: The Wall Butterfly
EvolutionAugust 12, 2012
Fungi that steal genes from bacteria
The SciencesAugust 5, 2012
Underground Communities: The plant roots that collect bacteria
EvolutionJuly 29, 2012
The origin of breathing: how bacteria learnt to use oxygen
The SciencesJuly 24, 2012
The bacteria that help sheep eat grass
The SciencesJuly 15, 2012
How Barley Protects Against Invasion