

Alex Cloherty
- May 1
- 6 min
How to understand the universe: A story about the scientific method
These days I’m at the very end of my PhD, and I’ve been struggling to maintain my once seemingly-unshakable love for science. So, I...
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Alex Cloherty
- Mar 13
- 5 min
Sinking our teeth into Cordyceps
I get pretty easily hooked by a good television series, and for me, HBO's 'The Last of Us' was no different. But what was special about...
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Merel Sijbranda
- Feb 27
- 8 min
How diversity can be powerful: Mycobacterium tuberculosis and antibiotic resistance
The other day I visited my grandparents, and I told them about this mini-series I’m writing about tuberculosis (TB). We got into a...
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Merel Sijbranda
- Feb 20
- 7 min
The fortress of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Last November, I was in beautiful, sunny Lisbon, and as my parents and I looked back at the pictures we took there, something caught my...
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Merel Sijbranda
- Feb 13
- 6 min
Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Playing hide and seek
When strolling through the streets of Utrecht, the town in the Netherlands that I live in, you sometimes hear people using ‘Tering’ as a...
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Alex Cloherty
- Feb 5
- 9 min
SARS-CoV-2: An army, or a single violin?
I haven’t written about SARS-CoV-2 for a while on Microbial Mondays - I’ve been busy revising a scientific manuscript on it instead - but...
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Alex Cloherty
- Jan 30
- 4 min
Sharing spit
If you’ve been keeping up with Microbial Mondays articles, you’re already pretty well versed in the fact that there are a lot of bacteria...
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Alex Cloherty
- Jan 23
- 5 min
Junk food for bacteria
Last week on Microbial Mondays, we took a look at how the microbes living in your gut are one of the reasons why eating lots of plants,...
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Alex Cloherty
- Jan 16
- 4 min
Multifunctional microbe manure
When Hippocrates said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” he was on to something. But one thing that Hippocrates didn’t...
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Alex Cloherty
- Jan 9
- 4 min
Ink eaters
Over Christmas, my little sister Michaela (who is now a bona fide tattoo artist and co-owner of the Cowpoke Collective) gave me some new...
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