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The future of genetic tech: animal innovation from lab to farm
a group of new articles exploring the issue and how regulatory reform in this area could help address issues such as food security, inequality, sustainability and welfare in agricultural, animal and microbiological science. Click here to find the full...
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A framework for the future
education in the UK 13th December 2021 With issues such as climate change, emerging diseases, antibiotic resistance, food security and conservation all urgently requiring solutions, biology is arguably the most important science of the 21st century. As...
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The problem with robobees
vehicles required to do the job of bees and other pollinators would be an ecological disaster December 4th 2020 Food security and the health of ecosystems depend on plant–insect interactions in countless ways. Pollination is particularly important for...
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Time for a new approach
a group of new articles exploring the issue and how regulatory reform in this area could help address issues such as food security, inequality, sustainability and welfare in agricultural, animal and microbiological science. Click here to find the full...
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Listening In
Garvie) We certainly do plenty of it within our own species. Eavesdropping is central to criminal justice and national security. Etymologically speaking, the word eavesdropping refers to someone snooping beneath the eaves of a house, listening in on the...
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A new front
systems, destroying pathogens in the food and beverage industry, protecting livestock and, by extension, global food security. This makes it troubling that scientists have found resistance to disinfectants is also emerging at an alarming rate. For...
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On record: Latent Lepidopterans
details of which can be found here. Not all moths are inactive over the winter months, with some coming to moth traps and security lights right through Christmas and the new year. These can also be recorded via the NMRS. The iRecord Butterflies app is...
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War on the world
is comparably vast. The depressing irony of this is that climate change represents a major threat to the national security of most nation states. While climate change may not directly cause or start wars, conflicts in Syria, Yemen, South Sudan and Libya...
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UK bioscience research impresses MPs at STEM for Britain
25 years ago and that the 2022 event fully lived up to expectations. “Current issues such as global warming, food security and the COVID pandemic have really highlighted just how important the biosciences are”, said Wathes. “In order for science policy...
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My Lab Unlocked: Professor Bruce Whitelaw FRSB
huge opportunities at a time when we see great challenges to our way of life. Climate change, carbon zero targets, food security, one health – now, more than ever, we need societal dialogue and debate across the wealth of stakeholder communities who...
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Biology Week 2021 Calendar
of food policy nationally andinternationally. We'll chart the balancing act this involves, bringing in needs for food security, reversing biodiversity loss and achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions targets. Metabolic Symposium 2021 | 09:00 to...
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Policy Profile: Lauren MᶜLeod MRSB
long-term plan to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on science education, for example thinking about ensuring the security and diversity of the STEM pipeline of the next ten years after the disruption to education at all levels. Lauren MᶜLeod MRSB is...
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Additional COVID-19 resources
the coronavirus outbreak worldwide. Outbreak Observatory The Outbreak Observatory, run by Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, aims to collect information on challenges and solutions associated with outbreak response and share it broadly with the...
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Bioscientists recognised in Queen’s birthday honours list
at the University of Southampton, has been appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath for services to food safety and security. RSB Fellow Professor Evelyn Telfer FRSB, professor of reproductive biology at the University of Edinburgh, has received a...
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Mark Logan MP joins members to discuss funding, education, and international research and development
openness, and be open to as many projects as possible, unless it is something that does strike us at the core of national security.” He touched on the Government’s decision to remove Huawei from the UK’s 5G networks following advice from the National...
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No, ‘robobees’ are not the answer to pollinator decline
vehicles required to do the job of bees and other pollinators would be an ecological disaster December 4th 2020 Food security and the health of ecosystems depend on plant–insect interactions in countless ways. Pollination is particularly important for...
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RSB launches new Policy Resource Library for the biosciences
via MySociety In the past decade, the RSB has provided guidance or comment on a wide range of policy issues including food security, science education, plant health, biodiversity, animal research, antimicrobial resistance, diversity in STEM, the effect...
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How to… write a lab handbook
for why we do things the way we do. For example, we collaboratively developed a set of policies for data management and security, arriving at the decision to move all our data and materials from a haphazard mix of storage methods to a GitHub...
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Gardening the planet
of cover crops on the soil habitat and ecosystem services in a heavy clay, minimum tillage rotation. Food and Energy Security, 8(3), e00169 (2019).
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RSB Fellows named in 2020 New Year Honours
FRSB, Head of Division, Functional Genetics and Development at The Roslin Institute, received an OBE for services to food security and bioscience for health. Professor Leslie Brent FRSB, received an MBE (awarded posthumously) for services to Holocaust...
