Plant geneticist Dame Ottoline Leyser talks to Alison Woollard about the difference between working with animal and plant genomes, and her work to make science more inclusive The Biologist 64(4) ...

The Royal Society of Biology (RSB) has a long-established Animal Licence Holder (ALH) Accreditation Board. The main purpose of which is to provide accreditation to approved UK modular training courses ...

As COVID-19 continues to dominate our headlines, it is easy to lose sight of the many diseases to have spread through the country in recent times. One of these is slowly killing millions of individual ...

The Royal Society of Biology (RSB) has set up a new teacher coordinator network in Scotland which is kindly supported by SSERC. RSB acknowledges the role that SSERC plays in managing the Synapse ...

The Nancy Rothwell Award celebrates specimen drawing in schools and highlights the benefits of combining art and science. The 2021 winners were announced during Biology Week 2021.

Everybody is talking about CRISPR-Cas9, the revolutionary system that makes it cheaper and easier to 'edit' genomes. But do you know how it works? At the end of 2015, hundreds of scientists gathered ...

experimental animals, to name just a few resources. This means that bioscience is often the focus of debates in research ethics. Nazi medical experiments and the Tuskegee trials in the US, where black ...

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The Biologist Vol 60(3) p32-33 Aerobiology is the study of airborne biological particles and their movement and impact on human, animal and plant health. Why is it important? Allergens in airborne ...

the general view is that most people outside these groups will suffer from only mild flu-like symptoms, data from the CDC shows that up to a fifth of infected people in the US aged 20-44 have been ...

working on fossil plants for my PhD and did a project on the rocks of the Jurassic coast in Dorset. I started working there on fossil trees, leaves and pollen and reconstructing ancient forests. Then, ...