Disease Prone

Moving house again… Well almost, moving addresses anyway. It wasn’t that long ago I moved from Disease of the Week to here at Disease Pron...

For invasive pathogens the only way to survive, and consequently make you sick, is to get inside your cells. This is a rough exercise as yo...

Mycology, the study of fungi, is an often-overlooked member of the microbiology family. Having said that there are plenty of dedicated myco...

Is it something you should do or is it taboo? What about a tattoo of a kazoo ? Okay, I'll stop now. Recently I’ve been considering ...

Last week I wrote about the Bends , a medical problem based in an understanding of physics that results in bubbles of (primarily) nitrogen ...

About a fortnight ago I was in the unusual position of teaching human biology to medical physicists and physics to medical students. Intere...

Oh how I'd love to write up a blog post right now. Instead I can barely see over the pile of 1st year undergraduate reports on Photosy...