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“It's a bit of a dream, but it would be transformative for the way people see vaccines”
of nasal spray or oral vaccines help us block infections at the site of entry to the body? Tom Ireland talks to Professor Ed Lavelle about the challenges of developing mucosal vaccines to prevent COVID-19 and other diseases. February 8th 2022 Mucosal...
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Plenty of Room for Biology at the Bottom: An introduction to bionanotechnology (2nd ed)
not only offers a wonderful overview of this exciting area of science, but delves into a number of specific biological and medical applications. The book deals with a complex topic, but presents the material in an engaging and compelling style that...
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Zoo Animals: Behaviour, Management, and Welfare (2nd ed)
University Press With undergraduate courses in animal management becoming increasingly popular, the appearance of a new edition of this textbook on zoo animals is timely. It is written in a lively and accessible style, and covers every aspect of zoo...
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Vertebrate Endocrinology (5th ed)
Carr Elsevier David Norris and James Carr Elsevier This book is up to date, scholarly and serious in tone, yet well illustrated and attractive to read. Accessible to undergraduate biologists, it also provides, for those embarking on postgraduate...
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Molecular Biology: Principles of Genome Function (2nd ed)
vast, with a plethora of good titles available on the market. This text adopts a pleasing approach to molecular biology by embedding it within a book that also covers some more traditional topics, including genetics and basic cell biology and...
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Pheromones & Animal Behavior (2nd ed)
University Press, £45.00 Tristram D Wyatt Cambridge University Press, £45.00 Fifty-five years ago, Adolf Butenandt extracted and identified the sex pheromone bombykol from some 500,000 female silk moths. Identifying such chemical signals – which...
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The future of genetic tech: one rule for all in microbiology and biotechnology
Professor Ed Louis FRSB on consolidating the regulations covering a multitude of microbial genetic technologies September 8th 2021 As the UK Government consults on the regulation of genetic technologies, The Biologist has commissioned a group of new...
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RSB Member Organisations come together to discuss equality and diversity in biosciences
our Membership Organisations (MOs) came together at this year’s twilight event to discuss equality, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) across scientific communities. Senior staff members from many of our Membership Organisations (MOs) came together at this...
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‘I'm supporting an institution that is supporting biology’
and is professor of biology at the University of St Andrews. With a background in marine ecology, his interests are now focused on sustainability (he co-chairs the First Minister’s Environmental Council for Scotland with Nicola Sturgeon and is chair of...
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Sustainable Dairy Production
Peter de Jong (Ed) John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. £130.00 Peter de Jong (Ed) John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. £130.00 The subject of dairy production – from feed production for cows, through to milk production and the processing of milk into a range of products and...
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HE Bioscience Teacher of the Year
How to apply Applications for 2024/2025 are now closed - the deadline to apply was 31st January 2025. “Applying for the award was a great opportunity to draw together what I was passionate about and what I’d discovered about how students learn. The...
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2022
Dr Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (Ed) Harper Collins, £12.99 Despite the disruptive influence of the internet and social media and dwindling readerships, American magazine journalism is still a force to be reckoned with. This latest collection of the best...
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Iconotypes: A Compendium of Butterflies and Moths. Jones' Icones Complete
Richard I. Vane-Wright (Ed.) Thames & Hudson, £65.00 William Jones (1745-1818) is not well-known amongst the pioneering lepidopterists of the 18th and early 19th Centuries, but he surely deserves to be. Jones was a wealthy London merchant who, upon...
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Deep Thinkers: An exploration of intelligence in whales, dolphins, and porpoises
Janet Mann (ed) Ivy Press, £20.00 In 2011, the Edge Foundation's annual question was 'What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?' Well-known neuroscientist David Eagleman answered with Jakob von Uexküll's idea of the umwelt....
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Pollination Services To Agriculture
Barbara Gemmill-Herren (Ed) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations with Routledge, £37.99 Successful pollination of crop plants is vital in producing adequate food for the world's population. Yet an understanding of how this is...
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Mutualism
J L Bronstein (Ed) OUP £75.00 (hardback), £37.50 (paperback) Multi-author books are not as fashionable as they used to be, but Mutualism shows just how valuable they can be in providing up-to-date collections of thematic reviews. Seed dispersal,...
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Practical thinking in a pandemic
but is also an opportunity to develop new approaches and skills 28th September 2020 Part II of this double feature on education during the pandemic, looking at final year projects, can be found here. Be it laboratory, practice or field work, practical...
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Beyond Our Genes. Pathophysiology of Gene and Environment Interaction and Epigenetic Inheritance
Raffaelle Teperino (Ed.) Springer, £139.99 Gene composition, flexibility, and modification have become significant research areas in recent years. The emerging field of epigenetics, a form of inheritance, involves studies on alterations in gene...
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30 Second Zoology
Mark Fellowes (Ed) Ivy Press, £14.99 If you’re looking for a book that covers mammals, altruism, climate change and segmented worms, then look no further. This addictive little book provides short “30-second” paragraphs on the “50 most important...
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Cowen’s History of Life (Sixth Edition)
Michael J Benton (Ed) John Wiley & Sons Ltd, £55.00 That this is the sixth edition of Cowen’s History of Life since its first edition in 1990 is testament to its value as a source of knowledge over the past 29 years. In the current edition there are 23...
