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  • Safe Haven

    Paul Weindling explores Britain's role supporting refugee biologists escaping war and persecution The Biologist Vol 61(6) p24-27 Between 1933 and 1945, the UK took in numerous biologists displaced by Nazism, Italian fascism and the Second World War....

  • Safe and Sound

    How and why do plants sense sound and vibration? Heidi Appel and Rex Cocroft explain The Biologist 66(2) p24 Sedentary and green, plants are perennially underestimated. Because they lack specialised organs for sensing their environment, it is often not...

  • “If this doesn’t work, I’m not sure anything will”

    Professor Sarah Gilbert on the science behind one of the world’s most advanced COVID-19 vaccine trials, and what still needs to be done to prove it is safe and effective As professor of vaccinology at the Jenner Institute and Oxford’s Nuffield...

  • “If this doesn’t work, I’m not sure anything will”

    Professor Sarah Gilbert on the science behind one of the world’s most advanced COVID-19 vaccine trials, and what still needs to be done to prove it is safe and effective As professor of vaccinology at the Jenner Institute and Oxford’s Nuffield...

  • Scotland to ban growing GM crops

    Scotland is to ban the growing of genetically modified crops, the country's rural affairs secretary has announced. Scotland is to ban the growing of genetically modified crops, the country's rural affairs secretary has announced. Speaking on Saturday,...

  • Schools celebrate Biology Week with food waste assemblies

    Today, schools around the UK are celebrating Biology Week 2013 with assemblies about food waste, starting with an animated video produced for the event. UK households throw away 20% of the food they buy, and pupils will consider how we can reduce this...

  • "There'll be PhDs written on the psychology and politics of this topic"

    A lack of research and old medical dogmas have caused deadly delays in public health bodies accepting that COVID-19 is being transmitted through the air, says aerosols expert Lidia Morawska 10th Nov 2020 Interview by Tom Ireland Professor Lidia...

  • 'I push people to apply the scientific method to crazy questions'

    Tom Ireland speaks to biohacker Andrew Pelling about his unconventional Canadian laboratory, where researchers and artists ask unusual questions about what can be done with living tissues The Biologist 65(3) p18-21 Andrew Pelling is perhaps best known...

  • 'I push people to apply the scientific method to crazy questions'

    Tom Ireland speaks to biohacker Andrew Pelling about his unconventional Canadian laboratory, where researchers and artists ask unusual questions about what can be done with living tissues The Biologist 65(3) p18-21 Andrew Pelling is perhaps best known...

  • RSB Fellows respond to ECJ decision on genetically modified organisms

    The European Court of Justice has announced that organisms produced by directed mutagenesis techniques are considered genetically modified organisms in EU law, and will be subject to the same regulatory obligations. The European Court of Justice has...

  • Dogs for Diversity

    When university administrators said Joey Ramp could not bring her service dog into the lab, she kitted him out in full protective equipment and fought to overturn their decision. Now she is helping create more inclusive policies on the use of service...

  • Deadly daisies?

    September 11th 2023 Is ragwort a toxic, invasive weed or an ecologically important and harmless wildflower? Ecologist and farmer Professor Gordon Maxwell FRSB explores this ubiquitous plant in search of an answer To some people ragwort is an annual...

  • Council for Science and Technology releases GM crops report

    Today, a new report on genetically modified (GM) crops was released by the Council for Science and Technology (CST). It states that GM crops have now been shown to be safe, and calls for more UK field trials and a change to the regulatory process....

  • A symbol of hope

    This year marks 50 years since the first efforts to protect Brazil’s golden lion tamarins began. It has become one of the region’s most innovative and inspiring conservation stories, writes Jeremy Mallinson OBE FRSB December 4th 2020 The Atlantic...

  • “The experiments we're doing today are riskier than they've ever been”

    Biosecurity and bio-risk expert Dr Filippa Lentzos discusses the 'explosion' of high-risk research, genetic surveillance, and science misinformation - and says bioscientists must do more to understand the ways their work could be misused or abused July...

  • “The experiments we're doing today are riskier than they've ever been”

    Biosecurity and bio-risk expert Dr Filippa Lentzos discusses the 'explosion' of high-risk research, genetic surveillance, and science misinformation - and says bioscientists must do more to understand the ways their work could be misused or abused July...

  • Hunting for 'holes of hope'

    Above: the characteristic holes or 'plaques' indicating bacteriophage infection of a plate of bacteria. Courtesy of Ninjatacoshell via Wikimedia commons. Bacteriophages found by members of the public are helping create libraries of viruses that could...

  • EU gives governments more flexibility on GM crops

    The EU has given member states the option to ban cultivation of GMOs that have been recommended as safe to grow by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). The EU has given member states the option to ban cultivation of GMOs that have been...

  • "For science, this is a challenging time"

    Sir Paul Nurse Hon FRSB, director of the Crick Institute, on turning Europe's largest biomedical research centre into a giant testing facility. Can you summarise how the Crick shifted its focus since the pandemic began? When Coronavirus started to...

  • Why an oral vaccine could be key to fighting COVID-19

    Dr Elliot Bland, business development director at Stabilitech, is developing a potential vaccine stable enough to post to citizens as a capsule, rather than one requiring healthcare professionals and needles Stabilitech is a UK-based biopharma company...


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