For bacteria, addiction to DNA can be a life or death situation. Lose that DNA and the bacterium suffers an unfortunate toxic death. Many bacteria easily transfer DNA amongst themselves in the forms o...
Naomi Boxall is not afraid to point out that the pictures of people in white lab coats with colorful vials of liquids do not show how real science is done. She’s had to take one of those pictures hers...
This post is part of the Meet a Microbe series on the blog. Check it out to meet other microbes! Meet Deinococcus radiodurans, one of the world’s toughest bacterium. It’s an extremophile and one of th...
Eva Garmendia has always been interested in the small and invisible since she can remember. According to Eva, she was “[amazed] that there is a universe we couldn’t see and yet, we could study and und...
Note: As an Amazon Associate I may earn commissions from qualifying purchases from links in this post (affiliate disclosure). When I picked up Peter Wohlleben’s book The Hidden Life of Trees, I ...