"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...

“The collaborative spirit is extraordinary and unprecedented”

Just a few months before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, synthetic biologist Imre Berger FRSB and colleagues finished work on synthetic vaccine platform intended for rapidly responding to infectious disease outbreaks. Can you describe what your role...

RSB update regarding COVID-19

The RSB has been proactive in ensuring members, stakeholders and staff remain safe during the COVID 19 pandemic, and is monitoring Government advice closely to ensure all decisions are in line with expert advice. For more news and updates from the RSB...

The Big Biology Breakthroughs of 2017

With the help of the RSB 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...

Spotlight on: Pharmacology

The Biologist Vol 62(5) p32-33 Pharmacology studies how medicines and other drugs work and how they are processed by the body. Linking chemistry, physiology and pathology with many other disciplines, pharmacology is crucial in medicine and other life...

Invisible allies

September 11th 2023 As the crisis of antibiotic resistance grows more acute, a new book explores whether it’s time to look to the past for solutions The Biologist’s editor, Tom Ireland, recently released his first book, The Good Virus: The Untold Story...

COVID-19 experts come together to discuss vaccine development and lessons learned from the pandemic so far

A panel of experts came together to discuss translational research successes and lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, as part of the RSB’s ongoing Policy Lates event series. A panel of experts came together to discuss translational research...

The science of body art

21 February 2025 Former microbiologist and public health expert Julie Russell explains how her decades-long career is helping her in a very different role – as the co-owner of a tattoo and piercing studio Nobody really knows why a young man was...

Employer Advisory Network (EAN)

What is EAN? The Employer Advisory Network (EAN) is a group of companies active in the biosciences, providing expertise and support to the RSB. RSB is dedicated to being a unifying voice for biology, representing diverse views from across the...

Black history month: “A space, a platform, a movement”

Clockwise from top left: Dr Kayisha Payne, Laura Eghobamien, Professor Nicola Patron, and Tomi Akingbade The Biologist speaks to the founders of four networks for Black scientists about how to support and grow the Black STEM workforce In the last five...

Regulating revolutions

6th December 2024 As biotechnology and AI converge and advance at high speed, developing robust oversight is challenging – but not impossible, writes Sana Zakaria The use of machine learning and AI to complement areas of life science such as...

Regulating revolutions

6th December 2024 As biotechnology and AI converge and advance at high speed, developing robust oversight is challenging – but not impossible, writes Sana Zakaria The use of machine learning and AI to complement areas of life science such as...

“A space, a platform, a movement”

Clockwise from top left: Dr Kayisha Payne, Laura Eghobamien, Professor Nicola Patron, and Tomi Akingbade The Biologist speaks to the founders of four networks for Black scientists about how to support and grow the Black STEM workforce In the last five...

An injection of facts

Susana Keane asks whether efforts to curb online misinformation will do anything to halt the alarming global slump in vaccination rates April 2nd 2020 In recent years there has been a reduction in vaccine uptake across many immunisation programmes...

An injection of facts

Susana Keane asks whether efforts to curb online misinformation will do anything to halt the alarming global slump in vaccination rates April 2nd 2020 In recent years there has been a reduction in vaccine uptake across many immunisation programmes...

The future of genetic tech: one rule for all in microbiology and biotechnology

Professor Ed Louis FRSB on consolidating the regulations covering a multitude of microbial genetic technologies September 8th 2021 As the UK Government consults on the regulation of genetic technologies, The Biologist has commissioned a group of new...

RSB partners with CWP to present ‘Biology for a Better Tomorrow’

RSB is partnering with Content With Purpose (CWP) to produce a wide-ranging digital series celebrating the wonder of biology and its critical role in sustainable development. RSB is partnering with Content With Purpose (CWP) to produce a wide-ranging...

Reports

Lambing time at Llysfasi 13 March 2024 We are standing in a chilly damp wind 265 metres up in the Clwydian Hills, looking down at the distant Llysfasi ‘campus’ over 100 m below. Despite the conditions we are totally engaged in listening to Dewi Wyn...

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Images depicting effects of climate change chosen for RSB’s Photography Competition

The Royal Society of Biology has announced the winners of this year’s Photography Competition, with two amateur photographers named as Photographer and Young Photographer of the Year. The Royal Society of Biology has announced the winners of this...