Tiffany Taylor

Tiffany Taylor

Evolutionary biologist

Tiffany Taylor worked at Live Science in the summer of 2024 as a Fellow of the Association of British Science Writers. She is a professor of Microbial Ecology and Evolution at the University of Bath in the U.K., where her research group studies evolution in real-time in the lab, using bacteria to explore how genes and genomes evolve. She has also authored three children’s books on evolution and genetics. When she is not doing research, she’s usually running – sometimes for pleasure, more often after her two small children.

Latest articles by Tiffany Taylor

A microscope image showing pink rod-shaped bacteria against a blue background

Antibiotic resistance makes once-lifesaving drugs useless. Could we reverse it?

By Tiffany Taylor published

Evolutionary biologist Tiffany Taylor explores the work being done to resensitize antibiotic-resistant bacteria to drugs as a strategy to defend ourselves against the growing antibiotic resistance crisis.

Medicine & Drugs
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Evolution: Facts about the processes that shape the diversity of life on Earth

By Tiffany Taylor published

Discover interesting facts about how evolution works, the different patterns that can emerge from evolution, how quickly organisms can evolve, and whether evolution is a random or ordered process

Evolution
A digital illustration of a simple rod-shaped organism with small viruses attacking from its surface

Meet LUCA, the 4.2 billion-year-old cell that's the ancestor of all life on Earth today

By Tiffany Taylor published

New research gives insight into when the ancestor of all living things lived, and it's earlier than we thought.

Animals
A close-up of a lobster with a bright blue shell

1-in-100 million 'cotton candy' lobster caught off New Hampshire alive and well at aquarium

By Tiffany Taylor published

A beautiful and rare "cotton candy" lobster caught in New Hampshire may be due to a combination of genetics and diet.

Crustaceans
Parasitoid wasp emerging from parasitised whitefly scale.

These bacteria trigger a sex change in wasps — scientists finally know how

By Tiffany Taylor published

Scientists have uncovered how bacteria borrowed a gene from an insect to create female-only parasitic wasp populations, eliminating the need for males.

Insects