• Gram ver­sus Derm

    by Elio — As you well know, bac­te­ria are di­vided into two groups, his­tor­i­cally known as Gram pos­i­tives and Gram neg­a­tives (Ar­chaea are all Gram neg­a­tive as they lack the telling pep­ti­do­gly­can). By and large, Gram pos­i­tives have a cell en­ve­lope con­sist­ing of a sin­gle mem­brane and a thick layer of...

  • A Sweater and a Shirt Came Be­fore Just a Shirt

    by Elio — It is not un­ex­pected that the con­tem­pla­tion of bac­te­ria and ar­chaea should fo­cus so much on the na­ture and im­por­tance of their cell en­velopes. Here, af­ter all, is the in­ter­face be­tween the cell's in­te­rior and the out­side world. It is also what a host per­ceives early on when be­com­ing in­fected. Plus, as was...