I was inspired to write this poem (first poem on The Microbial Menagerie!) from a writing workshop I’ve been taking. We were reading Workshop by BIlly Collins, and there was a line in there “Or is it ...
If you’re a microbiologist, the acronym HGT may have you thinking about horizontal gene transfer, the transfer of genes between microbes. But during the months of November and December, HGT takes on a...
This post is part of the Meet a Microbe series on the blog. Check it out to meet other microbes! It is commonly believed that bacteria are microscopic – stealthy and hidden from the naked eye. But the...
