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Twist of Fate
Woollard tells Tom Ireland about her Royal Institution Lectures, and how cells know what to do The Biologist Vol 61(2) p30-33 Dr Alison Woollard FSB is a dean and lecturer in genetics at the department of biochemistry at the University of Oxford and a...
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The Motorcycle Diaries
across Chile and Peru, where she meets groups helping to protect otters, armadillos and Andean cats The Biologist 66(6) p30-33 Nothing about seeking rare and endangered species on a long-distance motorcycle voyage is conventional, especially if you...
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Reading the Signs
gestures. Kirsty E Graham explains how some of these signals are common to all species, including us The Biologist 66(5) p30-33 There is a well-known linguistic thought experiment in which a researcher goes to another country and a rabbit hops in front...
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Who was...Arthur Milnes Marshall?
knowledge, writes Martin Luck. Portrait of Marshall (above) courtesy of The University of Manchester The Biologist 65(5) p30-33 It is highly unlikely that you’ve heard of Arthur Milnes Marshall (1852-1893). I’d not heard of him either until late in 2016...
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The Big Biology Breakthroughs of 2017
membership, The Biologist has compiled a list of the most important advances in bioscience this year The Biologist 64(6) p30-33 Earlier this year, we asked Fellows of the RSB to suggest their ideas for the biggest biology stories and most important...