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'We don't have to demonstrate we can do it anymore, we need to demonstrate how well we can do it'
Dr Andrew Singer says surveillance of wastewater will be a 'game-changer' for monitoring COVID-19 and other disease outbreaks By analysing the quantity of viral RNA found in wastewater, scientists can now estimate the number of live cases of COVID-19...
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Cats on Camera
For the last 10 years, Susan Cheyne and her colleagues have been setting camera traps to find out more about Borneo’s elusive cat species. She tells The Biologist about the highs and lows of trying to capture images of these rare and endangered species...
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RSB responds to Prime Minister’s plan to use AI to transform disease diagnosis
The Prime Minister today has set out new plans to challenge the NHS, Artificial Intelligence (AI) sector and health charities to use data and AI to transform the diagnosis of many diseases, including cancers. The Prime Minister today has set out new...
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"A game changer for COVID monitoring"
Dr Andrew Singer says surveillance of wastewater can provide a fast and cheap way of monitoring COVID-19 and other disease outbreaks By analysing the quantity of viral RNA found in wastewater, scientists can now estimate the number of live cases of...
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Machine learning
23rd February 2024 How the RSB and other organisations are working to understand the opportunities and risks of AI in education Can you imagine a future where artificial intelligence (AI) intervenes in the decision of a prospective student being...
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Mind-blowing research
The use of psychedelic substances as treatments for conditions like depression will revolutionise mental health care and represents the biggest innovation in psychiatry since the 1950s, says Professor David Nutt September 8th 2021 Professor David Nutt...
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Mind-blowing research
The use of psychedelic substances as treatments for conditions like depression will revolutionise mental health care and represents the biggest innovation in psychiatry since the 1950s, says Professor David Nutt September 8th 2021 Professor David Nutt...
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"I don't think the department has ever locked its doors to academics before in 200 years"
Biophysicist Professor Pietro Cicuta tells Tom Ireland how nearly a thousand Cambridge researchers have joined his Slack channel to develop coronavirus ideas – from ventilator prototypes to an app that diagnoses the disease from the sound of coughing....
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What are 'the laws of biology'?
Without tackling the fundamental philosophy of biological complexity, we might never truly understand how living organisms work The Biologist 64(6) p6 Biology is not just applied chemistry or applied physics. The components of living systems obey the...
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How to… write a lab handbook
Samuel Mehr has studied what makes a good lab handbook so you don’t have to – and says a good one could improve your team’s science and save time April 2nd 2020 When joining a laboratory, trainees become part of a scientific organisation with an array...
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Cats on Camera
How much do we really know about our pets? Cat behaviour expert and presenter Roger Tabor documents the progress made in tracking small cats The Biologist Vol 60(5) p26-29 When it comes to studying the behaviour of cats, we are in an exciting era....
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Spotlight on: Epigenetics
The Biologist Vol 61(1) p32-33 Epigenetics is the study of any changes in gene activity not caused by changes in the DNA sequence. Why is it important? Epigenetics explains almost any change in DNA function that is not caused by a mutation. The...
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Ecology in Action
Fred D Singer Cambridge University Press, £44.99 This is the best ecology text I have seen to date. Ecology in Action is a research project, and Singer's personality and values as a teaching professional are apparent throughout. Each chapter has a set...
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Cure-all or con?
September 11th 2023 Every year millions of people buy cannabis-based products to self treat a range of healthcare issues, from insomnia to inflammation – but many of these new products do not contain what they say they do, and the evidence they have...
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Travellers’ tales
Over the past decade, the RSB has helped fund travel for more than 100 early career biologists hoping to research, study or present abroad. We asked four recipients how these travel grants helped develop and support their work This year the Society...
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Head outdoors to look for first signs of spring
The Field Studies Council and the Royal Society of Biology have teamed up to create a new interactive project which will allow nature lovers across the country to chart the arrival of the new season. The Field Studies Council and the Royal Society of...
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Regulating revolutions
This diffusion, combined with ease of access to sophisticated biological design tools, open science papers and biological data sets, machine learning codes and other biotechnologies, is rapidly changing who can do bioscience, and what they can do,...
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Regulating revolutions
This diffusion, combined with ease of access to sophisticated biological design tools, open science papers and biological data sets, machine learning codes and other biotechnologies, is rapidly changing who can do bioscience, and what they can do,...
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Careers Q&A
in data analysis, bioinformatics and computational biology are in high demand. Being able to manage and interpret large data sets is highly valued across many sectors. Industry and business are much more team oriented, which is why communication skills...
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In it for the long run
Above: An image of the world-famous Park Grass long-term experiment, courtesy of Rothamstead Research. Ben Sykes explains how the UK’s long-term ecological field experiments – some of which have been running for over a century – can tell us things that...
