There was a conference on Blogging microbes at Nottingham University, with talks from Alan Cann , Shuna Gold , James Gurney and Oscar Rosales , organised by Ivan Lafayett e from the Toxicologi...
http://defectivebrain.fieldofscience.com/2014/10/blogging-microbes-communicating.html
Science as told by malfunctioning neurones. A blog of Life, labs and bacteria.
http://defectivebrain.fieldofscience.com/2014/06/microtwjc-49-discussion-and-criticisms.html
Science as told by malfunctioning neurones. A blog of Life, labs and bacteria.
http://defectivebrain.fieldofscience.com/2014/06/what-is-microbiology-about.html
Recently scientists have achieved a feat the like of which has not been seen in billions of years, they have added new letters to the genetic alphabet of a living organism. What did they do? Ho...
http://defectivebrain.fieldofscience.com/2014/05/microtwjc-49-expanding-genetic-alphabet.html
Science as told by malfunctioning neurones. A blog of Life, labs and bacteria.
http://defectivebrain.fieldofscience.com/2014/04/microtwjc-47-total-synthesis-of.html
An In depth look at how bacteria divide in "FtsZ placement in Nucleoid Free Bacteria"! Link: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0091984 Statistical Websites: ...
http://defectivebrain.fieldofscience.com/2014/03/microtwjc-46-ftsz-placement-in.html
This summary of the latest Microbiology Twitter Journal Club is going to be different in two ways. Firstly, it's late. Secondly, it's a video. I noticed a while ago that my explanations of papers...
http://defectivebrain.fieldofscience.com/2014/03/microtwjc-45-when-antibiotic-resistant.html
In 1934, The Los Angeles Milk Commission gave its employees devastating ultimatum- lose their tonsils or lose their jobs. When our antibiotics stop working, your employer may force you to make a ...
http://defectivebrain.fieldofscience.com/2014/03/post-antibiotic-era-will-take-your-job.html
The victim of this weeks TMI friday didn't really do anything wrong. In fact, this is less of a TMI Friday than a FML Friday, but it's an odd story that perhaps you'll find interesting, and perha...
http://defectivebrain.fieldofscience.com/2014/01/tmi-friday-when-youve-literrally-had.html
Jewellery, body piercing and other such frippery are usually harmless. A ring here, a piercing there. Humans have been using these accoutrements for millenia without problems. at least, problems ...
http://defectivebrain.fieldofscience.com/2014/01/tmi-friday-frippery-furrows-fanny.html
This weeks victim/perpetrator showed up to Hirosaki hospital with blood in his urine. The doctors spotted that he had a foreign body that had wormed it's way up into his bladder, but they couldn'...
http://defectivebrain.fieldofscience.com/2014/01/tmi-friday-how-long.html
Last week, I blogged about the "Santa Claus" Syndrom e. Taking inspiration from the "Worst ever Christmas story ever" from the "Gremlins" film, I clawed through the medical case literature to se...
http://defectivebrain.fieldofscience.com/2013/12/tmi-friday-grinch-syndrome.html
Winter is open season for pheasant hunting. Families and friends come together to bond over the hunt. Dogs are released into the underbrush to scare up a few of the birds into the gunsights of th...
http://defectivebrain.fieldofscience.com/2013/12/an-unpleasant-pheasant.html
The Journal of Forensic Sciences has one article that I've been attempting to dig out with whatever resources I can muster, but all I could find was the abstract. Thus, I present it to you in it'...
http://defectivebrain.fieldofscience.com/2013/12/tmi-friday-santa-claus-syndrome.html
On today's TMI Friday, we are once again contemplating colon contents, this time looking at the stories of four people who've used their rectums as repositories for interesting objects. I shall r...
http://defectivebrain.fieldofscience.com/2013/12/tmi-friday-rectal-repositories.html
There are many things that we all do in our private time when no-one can possibly see us. Things that could potentially embarrass us. Like farting yourself a warm spot in bed. Or rearranging ones...
http://defectivebrain.fieldofscience.com/2013/12/tmi-friday-worst-way-to-be-caught-dead.html
When things go wrong, often we turn to the humble telephone to help us out. Whether we turn to it to call for services found in the yellow pages, family, friends and the authorities when an emerg...
http://defectivebrain.fieldofscience.com/2013/11/tmi-friday-telephone-support.html
You should always be careful with electricity, a fact that is perfectly illustrated in this weeks TMI Friday. Today we find yet another story of a poor soul who recklessly endangered their life d...
http://defectivebrain.fieldofscience.com/2013/11/tmi-friday-shocking-discovery.html
Have you ever found yourself walking down a street, and be confronted with a pungent turd blocking your path? You don't know where it came from, but whether it be a dog or a tramp, you know to ...
http://defectivebrain.fieldofscience.com/2013/11/history-of-bacteriology-miasmas-and.html
When engaging in Slicking the Willie, Molesting the monkey and Throttling the turkey, a thought may occur to the male masturbator. "If I do this too much, will it fall off ?" So we come to the...
http://defectivebrain.fieldofscience.com/2013/11/tmi-friday-friction-burns.html
In this weeks Microbiology Twitter Journal Club we are going to be discussing two papers published a month ago in Science. These papers purport to provide evidence for RNA Silencing as an antivir...
http://defectivebrain.fieldofscience.com/2013/11/microtwjc-dicing-up-virus-genomes-part.html
Good news everybody ! I managed to source a copy of the second paper for this weeks' Microbiology Twitter Journal club, after not an insignificant expenditure of time and energy. In the last bl...
http://defectivebrain.fieldofscience.com/2013/11/microtwjc-dicing-up-viral-genomes-part-2.html
In this week's Microbiology Twitter Journal Club , we have been challenged to dissect not one, but two papers. Fortunately, the University of California San Francisco have made one of the pa...
http://defectivebrain.fieldofscience.com/2013/11/microtwjc-dicing-up-viral-genomes.html
There are a number of odd things that people do in pursuit of a sexual high, but today's story may just be the most bizarre event I've written about for TMI Friday. It was a peaceful afternoo...
http://defectivebrain.fieldofscience.com/2013/11/tmi-friday-eat-your-vegetables.html
Murmurs of murder rippled through the crowd as it accumulated outside the entrance of the building, cursing the people who entered and exited it. They had watched helpless woman stretchered into ...
http://defectivebrain.fieldofscience.com/2013/11/history-of-bacteriology-cholera-riots.html