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Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Curse of Human History
Kyle Harper Princeton University Press, £28.00 Presented as a germ’s-eye view of history from human origins to global pandemics, this wonderful book is prefaced by a short quote from John Donne (1611) “This new world may be safer … There is no health;...
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The Anti-Ageing Diet
Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine 27(3), 209–211 (1929). 10) McCay, C. M. et al. The effect of retarded growth upon the length of life span and upon the ultimate body size one. The Journal of Nutrition 10(1), 63–79 (1935). Dr Jana Stastna is...
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Training and CPD Event Approval
The Royal Society of Biology encourages all members to undertake suitable continuing professional development (CPD) and maintain appropriate records of this. This ensures members stay up to date with innovation in their field, develop soft skills...
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The Silk Route
2012, a team of researchers in Korea overcame these complications to successfully express a large, 285 kDa spidroin based upon the Nephila clavipes MaSpII (Xia et al., 2012). Using metabolic engineering, construction of genetic code to express an...
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Ginkgo
a warning about the politicising of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Those who read this book are likely to look upon the ginkgo with a sense of enchantment, as do I from the kitchen window, to where one has grown in my garden for the past 30...
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Reports
Caroline Donnelly was passionate about the subject and informative. The whole process takes 24 to 36 hours depending upon the volume arriving – Storm Doris had recently generated a lot of volume. No chemicals are used in the process, which starts with...
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#BiosciencesForAll initiative: call for case studies
sector. Individuals should feel free and able to succeed on merit and the profession should embrace, reflect and draw upon the rich diversity of the society from which it comes, and that it serves. If you have a story to share in approximately 600 words...
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The Invertebrate Tree of Life
history and fossil record of each of the invertebrate phyla and their component taxa. Whilst the authors have drawn upon the latest research at the time of writing (up to mid-2019) they also refer to original work of zoologists of the late nineteenth...
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Tales from the Forest: Sea the Light
Earth and the life it supports are intertwined and exist in a fine balance and how its future continuance is dependent upon the sensitivity and proactiveness of its human caretakers working collaboratively with each other and all forms of life. Dr...
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2nd International Fascination of Plants Day: 18th May 2013
resources, gardening, forestry, plant breeding, crop protection, food, nutrition, education and art. The day will build upon the success of the first Fascination of Plants Day, which took place in 2012. The initiative has since grown to include 54...
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HUBS events
to hear from diverse and influential voices in higher education. This year, with even more major financial pressure placed upon the HE sector, our theme is 'Doing more with less' - survival and transformational change. Sessions include Policy/Key...
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Decoding the diversity of daffs
The result of such divergence is a body of published work that ascribes somewhere between 30 and 80 species depending upon the authority. The Royal Botanic Garden Kew currently accepts 73 species, suggesting a native range from Macaronesia to...
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Member profiles
for activities that will help me achieve my goal of getting into medical school and being a surgeon. One day I stumbled upon the Royal Society of Biology and since joining my love for science has only increased. Right now I am…working with my project...
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“We’re trying to define the disease at the same time as treating it”
the disease at the same time as treat it, we need to study everything across the entire care pathway. That's how we came upon the idea to have an investigation – a multi-organ MRI; an embedded drug trial – the "RECOVERY trial" for long COVID; and a...
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Dragons and Damsels - An Identification guide to the British and Irish Odonata
flight period, distribution and status, habitat preferences, similar species and behaviour/field tips drawing upon the author’s extensive experience. Full and detailed systematic and reference lists are provided to round off an extremely useful...
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Ants feasting on honeydew and cells destroying tuberculosis: the shortlist and winners of the RSB's Photography competition
leaf. Solar power plant Photographer: Gu Guanghui Location: Zhejiang Province, China A large group of night herons perch upon the solar power panels at dusk. Young Photographer of the Year Runner-up Fractals Photographer: Alice Feng Location: UK The...
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Tackling trauma, using AI to tailor cancer treatment and combating corneal blindness – research celebrated in this year’s STEM for BRITAIN competition
who presented this year was amazingly high. "It was no surprise that all the judging panels found it difficult to decide upon the winners. “We were all sorry that the event could not be held in person but the compensation of holding it online was that...
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Beating animal coronaviruses
Further data[5] indicated that the ability of an FIP vaccine to protect cats against experimental challenge is dependent upon the strain and particularly the dose of challenge virus. Low-dose exposure resulted in protection of vaccinated cats, while...
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Lessons from animal coronaviruses
Further data[5] indicated that the ability of an FIP vaccine to protect cats against experimental challenge is dependent upon the strain and particularly the dose of challenge virus. Low-dose exposure resulted in protection of vaccinated cats, while...
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Why do humans crave flavour?
The human craving for rich flavours has been a largely unacknowledged and unexamined force in our evolution, according to a new book that explores the concept of ‘deliciousness’ in nature May 31st 2021 When Rob Dunn, an evolutionary biologist, and...
