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Spotlight on: Plant science
plant scientists are responding to some of the most critical challenges of the 21st century, including ensuring food security for a growing global population, helping us adapt to and mitigate climate change, protecting biodiversity and improving global...
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Biology in the Real World past talks
focused on Biology around the world: Fertility and the future of IVF (Dr Sophie Clarke, Imperial College London) Food security (Professor Peter Gregory, University of Reading) Influenza: discoveries and controversies (Professor Wendy Barclay, Imperial...
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Plaque celebrating Sir Anthony Carlisle unveiled in Stillington
and biologists today. The life sciences will be essential for solving the problems of the 21st Century such as food security and antibiotic resistance. By highlighting our great biology heritage we hope to inspire the next generation.” The Biology:...
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Plaque celebrating JBS Haldane unveiled in Oxford
biology andbiologists today. The life sciences will be essential for solving the problems of the 21st Century such as food security and antibiotic resistance. By highlighting our great biology heritage we hope to inspire the next generation.” The...
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Plaque celebrating IVF pioneers unveiled in Oldham
and biologists today. The life sciences will be essential for solving the problems of the 21st Century such as food security and antibiotic resistance. By highlighting our great biology heritage we hope to inspire the next generation.” The Biology:...
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Plaque celebrating Dorothy Hodgkin unveiled in Suffolk
and biologists today. The life sciences will be essential for solving the problems of the 21st Century such as food security and antibioticresistance. By highlighting our great biology heritage we hope to inspire the next generation.” The Biology:...
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Fossil researcher takes gold for biology 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 young scientists and understand...
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Plaque celebrating Fred Sanger unveiled in Cambridge
and biologists today. The life sciences will be essential for solving the problems of the 21st Century such as food security and antibiotic resistance. By highlighting our great biology heritage we hope to inspire the next generation.” The Biology:...
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Plaque celebrating Hodgkin and Huxley unveiled in Plymouth
and biologists today. The life sciences will be essential for solving the problems of the 21st Century such as food security and antibiotic resistance. By highlighting our great biology heritage we hope to inspire the next generation.” The Biology:...
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Plaque celebrating Dame Honor Fell unveiled in Oxford
and biologists today. The life sciences will be essential for solving the problems of the 21st Century such as food security and antibiotic resistance. By highlighting our great biology heritage we hope to inspire the next generation.” The Biology:...
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Plaque celebrating Richard Owen unveiled in Lancaster
and biologists today. The life sciences will be essential for solving the problems of the 21st Century such as food security and antibiotic resistance. By highlighting our great biology heritage we hope to inspire the next generation.” The Biology:...
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Blue Plaques unveiled around the UK
and biologists today. The life sciences will be essential for solving the problems of the 21st Century such as food security and antibiotic resistance. By highlighting our great biology heritage we hope to inspire the next generation.” Sunday 22...
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Plaque celebrating Dolly the sheep unveiled in Edinburgh
and biologists today. The life sciences will be essential for solving the problems of the 21st Century such as food security and antibiotic resistance. By highlighting our great biology heritage we hope to inspire the next generation.” The Biology:...
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Plaque celebrating Marjory Stephenson unveiled in Cambridge
and biologists today. The life sciences will be essential for solving the problems of the 21st Century such as food security and antibiotic resistance. By highlighting our great biology heritage we hope to inspire the next generation.” The Biology:...
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Survey reveals vulnerable skills in the biosciences
highlighted as vulnerable, including maths, statistics and computation; physiology and pathology, and agriculture and food security. Interdisciplinarity, core research and a number of subject specific skills, including numeracy and taxonomy, were also...
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Can we afford to lose what Kew has to offer?
impact." Plant science and the conservation of biodiversity are increasingly important with respect to issues such as food security and climate change. Kew makes an important and unique contribution to this in the UK and globally. The nature of its...
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African Natural Plant Products Vol II
food, nutrition and health. There is also a chapter on the potential contribution of indigenous plants to health and food security. There are reference lists and useful illustrations per chapter but, unfortunately, no maps to show plant distributions or...
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Life Sciences Minister on personalised medicine mission
“All our mainstream parties are taking this agenda seriously. This sector needs cross-party consensus and investment security and I think it is a sector where we have carried the baton on well and the Punch and Judy of politics haven’t got in the way.”...
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Innovation and GM: managing risk and supporting UK Life Sciences
faster and more robust' policy making. Sir Mark said, 'Innovation is essential for economic growth, health, wellbeing, security and resilience.' He advises that ‘we should be careful of the ‘Pandora’s box’ argument, which is that a new technology may...
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Biology Week 2014 a huge success
the world? to celebrate the launch of the Biology: Changing the World project. Speakers argued that neurotechnology, food security, biofuels and personalised medicine, would be the area of biology to change the world most. Four of our Big Biology Day...
