
What’s cooking? The strong parallels between molecular biology labs and domestic kitchens provide food for thought, and ideas for organising a new lab.
Microbes, infectious diseases and the causal relationship that links them

What’s cooking? The strong parallels between molecular biology labs and domestic kitchens provide food for thought, and ideas for organising a new lab.

Coffee alert: diseases affecting the coffee crop are already affecting global coffee production, but what about the people who work on the coffee harvest? They are at risk of exposure to tropical infections including a collection of neglected tropical diseases
The bacterial full stop, viral question mark and parasitic comma should all give you reason to pause for breath, if not reflection. Read how the language of infection is punctuated here.

Snowflake? the beauty of fractal geometry as demonstrated by a colony of bacteria growing on a semi-solid agar surface

Flu vaccine conversation: continued discussion of the adverse affects of influenza vaccine reactions in 2010, and their effect on vaccine uptake.
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