The whole no internet thing really de-railed my plans on blogging one paper every month, so I’m hoping I can make up for lost time this final week of December! The paper I will talk about is from April of this year and highlights the diversity of our “gut flora” (a pleasant way to describe [...]
Another month, another paper to read and blog about. Most people know that viruses are notoriously tricky disease-causing pathogens to tackle. Unlike bacteria which are completely separate organisms, viruses are parasites which use a host cell’s own DNA-and-RNA-and-protein producing mechanisms to reproduce. As a result, most viruses are extremely small, as they need to find [...]