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Gregor WeberPhD

Expertise

Scientific communication

Explaining complex biology and medicine in plain language — precisely, without dumbing it down and without overselling certainty.

A drug gradient running out inside a biofilmAntibiotic reaches the outer cells of a biofilm at full strength, weakens with depth through the surrounding matrix, and the cells in the interior are never exposed to a dose high enough to kill them.antibioticcells here never see a killing dose
Described in words

Antibiotic reaches the outer cells of a biofilm at full strength, weakens with depth through the surrounding matrix, and the cells in the interior are never exposed to a dose high enough to kill them.

Plain language is not simplified language. It is language that does the same work with less friction: defining a term the first time it is used, giving a number its denominator, and saying plainly when something is not yet known.

The test I use is straightforward. Could a thoughtful reader with no biology background follow the argument, and would a specialist recognise it as accurate? If only one of those is true, the piece is not finished.

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