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Scientists of the world unite!
Since the pandemic began Tom Ireland has been talking to bioscientists from around the world who have sprung into action to help to understand, track and treat COVID-19 June 5th 2020 In early March, as the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 started...
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Scientists of the world unite!
Since the pandemic began Tom Ireland has been talking to bioscientists from around the world who have sprung into action to help to understand, track and treat COVID-19 June 5th 2020 In early March, as the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 started...
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Spatialomics: Life in 3D
of restrictions on working with human embryos there’s little human embryo data. “Having that spatial information in the data sets that we do have is quite powerful that way to go back and validate some of the models that we have [of human...
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Animal Science Meeting 2023 Report
The 20th Animal Science Meeting, organised by the Royal Society of Biology, took place on in December 2023. The meeting is organised and supported by the RSB Animal Science Group, a special interest group of the Royal Society of Biology, which brings...
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Working (a synchrotron) from home
Above: Professor Sir David Stuart. Image courtesy of Diamond Light Source. During the pandemic researchers have been operating the Diamond Light Source synchrotron remotely, running crucial COVID-related experiments on its beamlines from the comfort of...
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“We’re trying to define the disease at the same time as treating it”
Professor Amitava Banerjee tells Tom Ireland about initial insights from the largest clinical study of long COVID to date Amitava Banerjee is a professor of clinical data science at University College London (UCL) and a consultant cardiologist. At the...
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“Our entire way of working has changed”
Immunologists Dr Elizabeth Mann (left) and Dr Madhvi Menon (right) are on the frontline of COVID-19 research, following the immune responses of patients arriving at hospitals across Manchester. Can you describe what your role involved before the...
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Animal Science Meeting 2017 Report
The 15th Animal Science Meeting (ASM), co-organised by the Royal Society of Biology (RSB) and the Animals in Science Regulation Unit (ASRU), was held on Friday 8th December 2017. Over 70 representatives from academic, industry and CRO establishments...
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Out in the open
The continued suppression of clinical trial data is an insult to patients and volunteers, writes Ian Bushfield The Biologist 61(5) p8 When cancer patient Richard Stephens had a chance to participate in a clinical trial, he volunteered because he...
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Travellers' Tales
6th December 2024 Over the past decade, the RSB has helped fund travel for more than 100 early career biologists hoping to research, study or present abroad. With a new range of grants available, we asked the latest recipients how the funding supported...
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"Making an AI-designed life form would be pretty fun"
6th December 2024 AI and gene-editing pioneer Patrick Hsu talks to The Biologist about Evo – arguably the most powerful AI model in biology – and his ambitions to create a fully virtual cell Patrick Hsu is co-founder and a core investigator at the Arc...
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"Making an AI-designed life form would be pretty fun"
6th December 2024 AI and gene-editing pioneer Patrick Hsu talks to The Biologist about Evo – arguably the most powerful AI model in biology – and his ambitions to create a fully virtual cell Patrick Hsu is co-founder and a core investigator at the Arc...
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Combat the winter blues by spotting the first Signs of Spring
so we can startto build a picture of how climate change is impacting the emergence of spring biodiversity. The bigger the data set, the more accurate picture we can get of what is happening to the plants and insects that we rely on, so citizen...
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#BritainBreathing
allergy symptoms in a simple and straightforward way and then safely share that data with the project team. This large data set (capturing information on timing and location of allergy symptoms) can then be combined with other publicly available data...
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You say tomato: Professor Sandy Knapp FSB
about life. Across biology, things are becoming more 'molecular'. Molecular isn't more modern, it's just a different data set. It's not intrinsically better. Unlike physics, which often throws obsolete techniques away, we still use our old techniques....
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For the Greater Good
identify many of them so I could follow them.Once I started, I was stuck with it – now that I have built up this amazing data set, of course I have to keep going. So the colony outlives the individuals living within it many times over? The queen lives...
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‘‘There were walls of fish, so many you could hardly see the corals”
drew up a network of protected areas. Greenpeace approached us again recently to revisit the roadmap using the increased data set that now exists for international waters – satellite information on currents, surface temperatures, where people are...
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‘‘There were walls of fish, so many you could hardly see the corals”
drew up a network of protected areas. Greenpeace approached us again recently to revisit the roadmap using the increased data set that now exists for international waters – satellite information on currents, surface temperatures, where people are...
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Hatching a plan
Gary Hogben reports on efforts to protect leatherback turtle eggs in Costa Rica The Biologist 66(1) p14-17 It’s 3am. I am sitting in a small rain shelter, attached to a fenced enclosure, on the Atlantic coast of Costa Rica. The rain from a tropical...
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Travellers' Tales
Over the past 10 years the RSB has helped fund travel costs for more than 90 early career biologists hoping to research, study or present abroad. We asked a selection of recipients how these travel grants helped develop and support their work The...
