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Statistics of animals used in science released for 2017
The Home Office has released the statistics of animal use in science in Great Britain throughout 2017. The Home Office has released the statistics of animal use in science in Great Britain throughout 2017. There were a total of 3,789,373 procedures...
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Who was… Peter Kropotkin?
The Russian nobleman-turned-anarchist was also a biologist whose research in Siberia laid the groundwork for modern biological studies of co-operation and altruism, writes Tom Ireland The Biologist 66(3) p26-31 Peter Alexeyevich Kropotkin was born in...
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No, ‘robobees’ are not the answer to pollinator decline
Despite the best intentions of engineers and technologists, the trillions of micro aerial vehicles required to do the job of bees and other pollinators would be an ecological disaster December 4th 2020 Food security and the health of ecosystems depend...
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"For science, this is a challenging time"
Sir Paul Nurse Hon FRSB, director of the Crick Institute, on turning Europe's largest biomedical research centre into a giant testing facility. Can you summarise how the Crick shifted its focus since the pandemic began? When Coronavirus started to...
