HealthJanuary 25, 2012
Guest post - Microbes and Madness
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.
EvolutionJanuary 22, 2012
Half-plant, half-predator, all-weird
The SciencesJanuary 17, 2012
Biofilms: a house for protection or a tent for nomads
EvolutionJanuary 10, 2012
Discrete steps to antibiotic resistance
The SciencesJanuary 4, 2012
How bacteria sneak into your blood through your mouth
January 1, 2012
Best Of Lab Rat 2011
This seems to be a fairly popular thing to do, and the New Year is as good a time as any to look back over my SciAm posts and see which ones I like, which ones I dislike, and how to make the posts better in the future.
The SciencesDecember 23, 2011
New Magnetic Bacteria!
December 16, 2011
Bacteria that could pass as X-men: part 2
Second part of my thinly veiled excuse to research X-men and call it work. The first post can be found here. This is only meant to be a two-parter but I’ll see how I feel on Monday, and whether I can find any more X-men that are as amazing as bacteria.
The SciencesDecember 16, 2011
Bacteria that could pass as X-men: part 2
December 15, 2011
Bacteria that could pass as X-men: part 1
This idea for a post has been kicking around in my head for a while now. As I’ve been finding blogging hard to get into recently, this should kick-start me back into it by letting me write about comics as well as science.
The SciencesDecember 15, 2011
Bacteria that could pass as X-men: part 1
The SciencesDecember 7, 2011
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EnvironmentNovember 30, 2011
A project for bioplastics - 10,000 bioplastic bottles
The SciencesNovember 23, 2011
Bacteria that live on the Atkins Diet
The SciencesNovember 20, 2011
In another life ... I am a fiction writer
The SciencesNovember 16, 2011
Bacteria with bodies - multicellular prokaryotes
The SciencesNovember 13, 2011
How cancer-causing bacteria force your cells to die
The SciencesNovember 9, 2011
Living antibiotics - bacteria that suck the life out of their prey
The SciencesNovember 6, 2011
A farewell to Labwork …
Dear Labwork, We need to talk. I don’t think this will come as a surprise. I think you’ve noticed a difference in me, Labwork, and in my attitude towards you.
The SciencesNovember 2, 2011
How to explore a protein
The SciencesOctober 31, 2011
Modelling a werewolf epidemic
The SciencesOctober 26, 2011
Plastic from bacteria - now in algae!
The SciencesOctober 22, 2011
Microbe Hall of Fame
The SciencesOctober 16, 2011
Global Handwashing Day - why you probably have poo on your phone.