Some fun with code and cards

If anyone has ever played the card game “s**head” you will know it’s a semi-luck and semi-tactic game where you … More

Where does all your time come from?

Ironically, I’ve decided that during this passing hour – as I’ve set polymerised fragments of DNA hurtling toward an anode … More

Copper is commonly used as a growth promoter due to antimicrobial properties, and common pig dwelling pathogens such as Salmonella … More

I hate to break it to you, but we are all under attack. All the time. A constant barrage of … More

When we think of getting infected by a microorganism, we associate it with changes to our physiology, such as getting … More

Let me discuss two strikingly different scenarios with a common possible solution: Chicken. Yes chicken. We love chicken. In … More

I’ve become a fan of sequence data, so a few week ago when there were the initial collections of sequences … More

Further to the post written previously: here is an article concerning the above title with a promising development in Filovirus research. “A … More

The common consensus for many people appears to be to call general bacterial species ‘bugs’. At first it was used … More

The Zaire Ebola virus is a virus species in the family ‘Filoviridae‘ of which I have previously written an essay. … More