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Reports
Young Biologist Forum 2024 On Saturday 16th March, Royal Holloway University of London hosted on its beautiful campus the 3rd edition of the Young Biologist Forum. The event is fully organised by the RHUL Biological Society students and supported by...
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Biology in the Real World past talks
The following are the Biology in the Real World talks that have taken place at the Association for Science Education's Annual Conference: 2018 In 2018, the talks for Biology in the Real World theme was Separating fact from fiction: Is it true an...
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Spotlight on: Synthetic biology
The Biologist Vol 61(6) p30-31 Synthetic biology is the engineering of biological systems to create useful products or devices. It has the potential to create new life forms with extraordinary properties that exist purely to meet human needs. Why is it...
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War of the Worms
Parasitic worms blight the lives of billions of people worldwide. Stefano Colombo looks at the challenges of vaccinating against them The Biologist 64(1) p10-13 The idea of human bodies being hijacked by parasites might seem like something out of a...
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Amateur photography competition opens for entries
The Royal Society of Biology annual amateur photography competition, celebrating inspiring images which explore biology and the natural world, is now open for entries. The Royal Society of Biology annual photography competition is now open for entries....
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Society awards outstanding science communicators
Kate McAllister from the University of Cambridge and Dr Nicola Hemmings from the University of Sheffield have been named as the winners of the Society of Biology's Science Communication Awards 2014. Kate McAllister from the University of Cambridge and...
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Interview: Dr Elizabeth White
Tom Ireland talks to filmmaker and former research biologist Dr Elizabeth White, who co-produced the extraordinary BBC series Planet Earth II The Biologist 64(2) p28-31 Dr Elizabeth White has worked for the BBC's Natural History Unit for the last 13...
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Gone with the wind
Dr Sara Goodacre explains how and why spiders ‘fly’ and ‘sail’ to pastures new 30th July 2020 Dispersal shapes the world around us. At local scales it determines the chance that two individuals will meet. Over larger scales it determines species...
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Reimagining the final year project
Dr Sue Jones, Dr Dave Lewis and Michelle Payne discuss new alternatives to traditional final year bioscience projects, born out of necessity during the pandemic, can actually help improve student experience and employability 28th September 2020 Part I...
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Preparing for the COVID cohort
The RSB's bioscience teacher of the year Dr Nigel Francis and colleagues explain the varied and challenging experiences of students taking A-levels this year, and how universities can help aid their transition to university 10th August The global...
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Reports
Unearthing the buried soul: Homo naledi and the evolution of hominin mortuary practices 19 July 2021 How have awareness of mortality and the rituals associated with death and treatment of human remains evolved over time? Is modern Homo sapiens unique...
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Making connections
Mysterious nanotubes connecting distant cells have a key role in directly moving organelles – as well as viruses and disease-causing proteins – from one cell to another, write Diégo Cordero Cervantes and Chiara Zurzolo The Biologist 66(2) p10-13...
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“You learn on the job how to think like a filmmaker rather than a biologist”
Tom Ireland talks to filmmaker and former research biologist Dr Elizabeth White, who co-produced the extraordinary BBC series Planet Earth II The Biologist 64(2) p28-31 Dr Elizabeth White has worked for the BBC's Natural History Unit for the last 13...
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Art, Nonsense and Science
Edward Lear, best known for his literary nonsense and limericks, was also one of the finest natural history illustrators of his era and helped classify several species. Natasha Little spoke to the author of a new biography on the famous eccentric to...
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"The prevailing culture in science is about competition and the lone brilliant-mind type scientist"
Plant geneticist Dame Ottoline Leyser talks to Alison Woollard about the difference between working with animal and plant genomes, and her work to make science more inclusive The Biologist 64(4) p16-19 Dame Ottoline Leyser is a professor of plant...
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Focus on: Computer-aided biology
Will augmenting bioscience with computer-aided design software change what it means to be a biologist? The Biologist 66(3) p30-31 In the 1970s and 1980s the design of silicon circuits became so complex that creating blueprints for them graphically...
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How to...explore rock pools
Investigating rock pools is one of the great ways to introduce people to the wonders of nature, write Julie Hatcher and Steve Trewhella The Biologist 64(4) p30 What can beat exploring the cool depths of a rock pool, with the waves gently lapping close...
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A sense of place
Tale L Bjerknes and May-Britt Moser explain how specialised cells deep in the brain continuously create cognitive maps of where we are and where things happened The Biologist 66(1) p10-13 How do we remember events from the past? The question has...
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Saving the library of life
Tom Ireland talks to Dame Georgina Mace about the scale of the global crisis of biodiversity loss, and how she stays positive in the face of relentlessly worrying trends The Biologist 65(6) p24-29 Dame Georgina Mace is a professor of biodiversity and...
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Animal Science Meeting 2018 Report
The annual Animal Science Meeting co-organised by the Royal Society of Biology and the Animals in Science Regulation Unit (ASRU) took place on 7 December 2018. The day was opened by the head of ASRU who reflected on the role of the regulator of the...
