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What is the real cost of the Suez Canal?
must link the trends in alien species’ presence and abundance to impacts on local ecosystems, economists must assess the costs of these impacts, and environmental authorities need to attain accurate data and detailed risk assessments in order to...
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What is the real cost of the Suez Canal?
must link the trends in alien species’ presence and abundance to impacts on local ecosystems, economists must assess the costs of these impacts, and environmental authorities need to attain accurate data and detailed risk assessments in order to...
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Reports
in the Zimbabwean migrant community in the UK, exploring potential harm reduction strategies. The total estimated annual cost of alcohol related harm in the UK, £21 billion, was contrasted with the (anonymised) life experiences of individuals affected,...
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The biosecurity front line
first identified in North America in 2002, this pest has destroyed tens of millions of ash trees in the US with a predicted cost of $10.7bn[4]. In all probability, the emerald ash borer will reach Europe in the near future and, based onevidence from the...
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Harnessing the power of peptides
the data free. It’s credited with supporting a renaissance in machine learning forchemistry¹². ProteinDB, at an estimated cost of $764m, has become the primary depository for protein structure discoveries – and like the Human Genome Project was paired...
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Harnessing the power of peptides
the data free. It’s credited with supporting a renaissance in machine learning forchemistry¹². ProteinDB, at an estimated cost of $764m, has become the primary depository for protein structure discoveries – and like the Human Genome Project was paired...
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Hunting for 'holes of hope'
a range of locations as possible to maximise diversity. We want to enable global sharing of fully characterised phages at cost to the clinicians who need them, and to accelerate phage research by supplying phage researchers with well-characterised...
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Reports
pigments but also developing growing media and fermentation equipment to further optimise the dyeing process and reduce the cost. They are also working with the dyeing houses and their supply chain to further optimise formulations of the growing media...
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Out of the woods
sapling succumbing to ash dieback in field trials The consequences of this disease come at a high economic and environmental cost. Last year scientists estimated a total cost to the UK economy of nearly £15bn over 100 years[3]. Much of this is due to...
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RSB's response to the 2025 Spending Review
the need to address growing education and skills challenges, regional disparities, and appropriately fund the full economic cost of research activities, including by deploying support for the higher education sector which is a critical component of the...
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Conference Grants
is provided for three years to cover the stipend of the student, tuition fees, generous contribution toward project running costs, and a travel allowance for attendanceat an Anatomical Society meeting in each year of the award and to one international...
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Reports
'sweetest' apple Golden Delicious. As well as supermarket varieties bred for rough handling and colour uniformity - at the cost of taste! The apple taste is influenced by the presence of tannins from almost nothing in Golden Delicious to the almost...
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The sense behind senescence
age”. To explain this we must first clarify that the strength of selection pressures on a given trait is proportional to the cost of lacking it. Minor inconveniences might not be ‘seen’ by natural selection, whereas the inability to perform a basic...
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My Lab Unlocked: Fermtech CEO Andy Clayton AMRSB
of using SSF is unusual within the industry, as most teams use stirred-tank liquid-based reactors. We use it to minimise cost and complexity, and to contribute to the circular economy. Food has to taste good and be nutritious of course, but it must also...
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What are Cloud Labs?
of experimentation will require work with their application scientists to get up and running quickly. How much does it cost? Cloud labs work with a variety of partners, from small start-ups and academic groups to pharmaceutical giants, and pricing...
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The value of venom
for the laying of eggs and use as a habitat and food source for developing larvae. Venom production carries a high metabolic cost to the organism, and in all known venomous species the wet weight of venom never exceeds 0.5% of the total body mass of the...
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The road to replacement
personalised medicine, and toxicology and safety studies. Unfortunately, their utility has been limited by the high cost, long time frame and specialised equipment required to produce these complex and precise microphysiological systems. However, in his...
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Bioscience must treat climate change for the global emergency that it is
science translation pipeline, from lab, to experiment, though demonstration, to full-scale implementation. All of this will cost money – but it is small beer compared to the cost of damage that will be caused by climate change if we don’t meet our...
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The sky's the limit
farms have been around for many years. However, the widely hailed ‘fuel of the future’ still faces pitfalls due to its high cost and low efficiency. A traditional silicon-based solar cell works on a principle similar to photosynthetic light-harvesting...
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Accelerating Evolution
in New Zealand and rodents around the globe cause significant damage to the environment, and incur economic and social costs. Control measures includeshooting, poisoning, trapping and the release of biological agents, which are largely inadequate and...
