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Think Tank: Forty Neuroscientists Explore The Biological Roots Of Human Experience
David J Linden (Ed) Yale University Press, £18.99 David J Linden, professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has compiled an intriguing and insightful collection of essays for anyone interested in neuroscience and the...
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The Cell: A Visual Tour of the Building Block of Life
Jack Challoner and Dr Phil Dash (ed) Ivy Press, £19.99 The Cell: A Visual Tour of the Building Block of Life Jack Challoner and Dr Phil Dash (ed) Ivy Press, £19.99 By revealing the hidden world of the cell, the stunning images in this book help the...
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Quantum Effects in Biology
Masood Mohseni (Ed), Yasser Omar, Gregory S Engel and Martin B Plenio Cambridge University Press, £80.00 Masood Mohseni (Ed), Yasser Omar, Gregory S Engel and Martin B Plenio Cambridge University Press, £80.00 Having previously thoroughly enjoyed...
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Cultural Severance and the Environment
Ian D Rotherham (Ed) Springer, £117.00 Ian D Rotherham (Ed) Springer, £117.00 In 2013-14 Springer published the first three volumes in its Environmental History series. The objective was an exploration of the relationship between society and...
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Birds and Habitat: Relationships in Changing Landscapes
Robert J Fuller (Ed) Cambridge University Press, £40.00 Robert J Fuller (Ed) Cambridge University Press, £40.00 Habitat loss and deterioration are widely acknowledged to be the most important causes of species decline worldwide, and yet the...
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Oxytocin, Vasopressin and Related Peptides in the Regulation of Behaviour
Elena Choleris, Donald W Pfaff and Martin Kavaliers (Ed) Cambridge University Press, £70.00 Elena Choleris, Donald W Pfaff and Martin Kavaliers (Ed) Cambridge University Press, £70.00 In 2005 Nature published a paper that was scarcely believable. The...
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Next generation nanopores
The next goal? DIY sequencing of DNA, proteins and entire human genomes in 15 minutes Ten years ago, Oxford Nanopore launched the MinION, the company’s pocket-sized sequencer aimed at enabling anyone to perform rough-and-ready DNA analysis, anywhere....
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Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
The RSB is committed to ensuring equal opportunities in the life sciences, and supports diversity throughout the pipeline; at school and higher education, in the workplace and training. The Royal Society of Biology is committed to embedding and...
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Decoding the diversity of daffs
from a relatively small gene pool of between 30 and 80 species, mostly at the hands of horticulturists and selective breeding. There are thought to be well over 30,000 recognised Narcissi cultivars, each with some individual trait that separates them...
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Winner of Higher Education Bioscience Teacher of the Year 2024 announced at HUBS
The Royal Society of Biology has named Dr Carys Watts, Senior Lecturer in Enterprise and Director of Engagement at the School of Biomedical, Nutritional and Sport Sciences at Newcastle University, winner of the Higher Education Bioscience Teacher of...
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Master your metaphors
like staining techniques in microscopy, create potentially useful artefacts for us to see – but like dyes they must be handled with care, writes Andrew Reynolds 12th December 2022 Aristotle claimed that “the greatest thing by far is to be a master of...
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Royal Society of Biology’s Higher Education Bioscience Teacher of the Year 2019 announced
The RSB Heads of University Biosciences (HUBS) have named Dr David Smith as winner of the HE Bioscience Teacher of the Year Award 2019. The Royal Society of Biology Heads of University Biosciences (HUBS) have named Dr David Smith, teaching fellow at...
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RSB’s MO Twilight Meeting concludes there is a need for learned societies to unite
Member Organisations the opportunity to hear a keynote address from the new RSB President, Professor Sir Ian Boyd FRSB, entitled The Evolving Role of Learned Societies. Yesterday, this event gave representatives from Royal Society of Biology Member...
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A world under one roof
From data analysis to staff support groups, Karen Ambrose and Anette Grindsted explain the work required to create a more diverse, inclusive and welcoming working environment at the Crick Institute, London November 31st, 2021 The Francis Crick...
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Listening In
Above: A little blue heron pays close attention as a snowy egret searches for fish. Humans have always used espionage and intercepted information to get ahead of rivals. The natural world is rife with animal eavesdroppers too, writes Richard Pallardy...
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Breaking down barriers
antimicrobial crisis, writes Susana Direito May 31st 2021 In the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-1919 the majority of the estimated 50 million deaths attributed to the virus were likely to have actually been caused by so-called secondary infections, where...
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War on the world
Tom Ireland explores the potential for environmental disaster in eastern Ukraine – and how the pollution and degraded landscapes of war drive further conflict May 23rd 2022 The Novhorodske phenol factory lies roughly 35km north of the city of Donetsk...
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A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin’s Descent of Man got Right and Wrong About Human Evolution
Jeremy Desilva (Ed.) Princeton University Press, £22.00 Have a really good idea, then recruit some excellent science communicators to implement it and you have a great chance of producing a book with widespread appeal. That formula seems to work very...
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Higher Education Bioscience Teacher of the Year 2021 winner announced
Dr Nigel Francis, an associate professor at Swansea Medical School, has been announced as this year’s Higher Education Bioscience Teacher of the Year. Dr Nigel Francis, an associate professor at Swansea Medical School, has been announced as this year’s...
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Higher Education Bioscience Teacher of the Year 2021 shortlist announced
The Royal Society of Biology is pleased to announce the shortlist for the Higher Education Bioscience Teacher of the Year award for 2021. The award seeks to identify the country’s leading bioscience teachers in higher education. Recognising outstanding...
