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"The prevailing culture in science is about competition and the lone brilliant-mind type scientist"
are transposable elements moving about all over the place. The notion that they are a beautifully balanced thing and all hell will break loose if you put an extra gene into them... there's just no way to sustain that argument any more. I'm waiting for...
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"If you've had your leg dragged under a motorbike, you'll sure as hell want this technology"
A pioneering vet and star of Channel 4’s The Supervet, Professor Noel Fitzpatrick is using his profile to try to unite the fields of animal and human biomedical research The Biologist 64(5) p26 Born in Laois, Ireland, Professor Noel Fitzpatrick...
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From Evidence to Art
Image: Sarcosaurus by Mark Witton Palaeoart is the term given to the striking and often controversial depictions of ancient creatures and ecosystems. We spoke to six palaeoartists about how they reconstruct ancient scenes and what a career as a...
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Restoration Dramas
Amid a boom in restoration initiatives on land Samantha Andrews looks at the more complex challenge of restoring ecosystems under the waves 12th December 2022 In June 2021 the United Nations announced the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration: “a rallying...
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"It's almost like 'crowd-science' - which can really accelerate science"
Open Cell’s Thomas Meany on scaling up open-source COVID-19 testing assays – from a lab in a shipping-container to a dedicated space in The British Library. In 2018 Open Cell began transforming empty shipping containers in Shepherd’s Bush, West London,...
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Dame Bridget Ogilvie
Image courtesy of the British Society for Immunology Dame Bridget Ogilvie Hon FRSB explains how a dramatic encounter with parasitic worms inspired her journey from rural Australia to Cambridge, and a range of high-profile roles in UK science The...
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"I've never seen a dividing line between human and animal medicine"
A pioneering vet and star of Channel 4’s The Supervet, Professor Noel Fitzpatrick is using his profile to try to unite the fields of animal and human biomedical research The Biologist 64(5) p26 Born in Laois, Ireland, Professor Noel Fitzpatrick...
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"I've jostled the system"
Image courtesy of the British Society for Immunology Dame Bridget Ogilvie Hon FRSB explains how a dramatic encounter with parasitic worms inspired her journey from rural Australia to Cambridge, and a range of high-profile roles in UK science The...
