RSB responds to Conservatives securing a majority

and innovation is at the heart of a solution to many grand challenges, from new forms of antimicrobial drugs to food security, and the RSB’s broad fellowship and member organisations, from across the biology disciplines, stand ready to proactively...

Sensing success at iGEM

bacteria to grow in. Our iGEM entry In previous years Nottingham’s iGEM teams have worked on projects involving bacterial security with Escherichia coli and engineered bacteriophages in the treatment of Clostridium difficile infections. Our team this...

New programme by RSB and ITN Productions highlights the biosciences that impact everyday living

impacts everyday lives. Biosciences research plays a part in so much of what we do every day – be it the agritech and food security research that helps deliver food to the table, to the biomedical research and drug development that keeps us healthy....

Animal Science Meeting 2018 Report

design prototypes and user testing – followed by beta phases, focusing on test building solution with select users, security testing and digital accessibility testing. The presenters showed a prototype of the new system, modelled on a fictional...

RSB responds to the Autumn Budget 2018

with the announcement of a new £50 million per year fund to address key issues in areas such as public health and cyber security. The fund is intended to support joint projects between Government and Industry and will contribute to the Government’s...

How did Hannibal cross the alps?

all those years ago. Professor Chris CR Allen FRSB is a cross-disciplinary microbiologist at the Institute for Global Food Security and School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast. Further reading 1) Mahaney, W. C. et al. Biostratigraphic...

Focus on: Image Manipulation

Research Projects Agency, which takes the view that fake media – including faked video and audio – is now a national security concern. For now, in scientific publishing at least, the only fail-safe method is the somewhat laborious human analysis of...

MPs quizzed on academic careers, gene-editing crops and more at Voice of the Future

rights of EU citizens post-referendum in order to help keep close ties with the EU. She also commented that the lack of security in academic careers was part of the wider problem of a lack of workers’ rights in the UK and that the area is a priority for...

The Big Biology Breakthroughs of 2017

symbiotic nitrogen fixation in cereals and other non-legume crops: the greener nitrogen revolution. Agriculture & Food Security 6(7) (2017). 9) Hallmann, C. A. et al. More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected...

Animal Science Meeting 2016 Report

(ASPeL) project licence process. ASPeL allows a more modern and better user experience than the paper process and greater security for applicants. For ASRU there is the opportunity for better workflow management of the project licence applications...

Synthesising Scientists

Participation in the iGEM competition encourages students to manage their own projects, consider and address the safety, security and environmental implications of their work, and secure funding. In last year's competition, the winners of the...

Resistance fighters

It is said that during the Cold War, the Soviet Union suspected that the beetle was part of a CIA plot to threaten food security. The mechanisms of resistances include several metabolic enzymes and target site mutations, reduced penetration and...

Could legalising the trade in rhino horn save the species?

year. With around a quarter of rhino belonging to private owners in South Africa, who spend up to 60% of their income on security, legal trade is seen by some as a lifeline against the onslaught of heavily armed and violent poachers. Some favouring...

Obituary: Dr Barbara Knowles FRSB MBE

Romanian and UK MEPs. Barbara had become a recent convert to online courses completing several in swift succession on food security and environmental management and no doubt others also. Her clarity of vision brooked no argument on matters of equality,...

Belfast biomedical researcher strikes Gold for display in Parliament

and politicians both have major roles in addressing some of society’s biggest challenges, from climate change to food security. SET for Britain is a rare opportunity for politicians to meet some of our most promising early career scientists and...

Staring death in the face

to the dead. At the crime scene in Kosovo I mentioned earlier, we had SO13, the anti-terrorist police force, as our security. They told me that if I found anything and I didn't know what it was, to just walk out and come and get them. I saw some very...

Staring death in the face

to the dead. At the crime scene in Kosovo I mentioned earlier, we had SO13, the anti-terrorist police force, as our security. They told me that if I found anything and I didn't know what it was, to just walk out and come and get them. I saw some very...

You say tomato: Professor Sandy Knapp FSB

of looking at whole organisms in the field. But I think it's making a comeback, actually, with our emphasis on food security and caring for a planet. It's like a pendulum. There are fads in science, just like fashion goes back and forth between tight...

Sarah Gurr

Becoming a biologist