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What role will innovation and regulation play in tackling AMR?
existing drugs being co-administered alongside failing antibiotics to boost their efficacy, a potential solution which would cost a fraction of the cost of developing a new antibiotic. Tamar Ghosh, lead of the Longitude Prize, explained how the£10m fund...
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Support for all students
to those most in need. This effectively means a cut, where DSAs will only be available ‘for higher specification or higher cost computers where a student needs one solely by virtue of their disability’. Earlier this year, the Government announced that...
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A Golden Opportunity
problem of poverty that prevents this is complex, involving many economic and social factors. Vitamin A capsule programmes cost around $1bn a year, and have undoubtedly saved millions of lives. Nevertheless, they do not change the underlying problem in...
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Book Awards
audience. Undergraduate Textbook Prize A prize of £500 for an outstanding life sciences textbook for undergraduates. Cost, readability and accuracy of information for students will be the most important considerations. Postgraduate Textbook Prize A...
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Earth’s final frontier
mapped comes down to whether theNorwegian Government is motivated enough to carry out a thorough impact assessment. Cost shouldn’t be an issue here, given that the economic value of the region is so high. “The fear is that they won’t integrate the...
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Boosting biological science
to £13.9bn from £13.3bn in 2024–2025. Within this is around £8.8bn in funding for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the costs of association with Horizon Europe. In June ‘Phase 2’ of the Spending Review will be presented to the House of Commons by...
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Membership Benefits
and groups to strengthen your portfolio or CV Invitations to Fellows’ events [FRSB only] How much does annual membership cost? BioNet: £10 Student affiliate: £20 Affiliate: £75 Associate (AMRSB): £95 (One off application fee of £15) Member (MRSB): £108...
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Membership FAQs
through Gift Aid means as a charity, the Royal Society of Biology can claim an extra 25p for every £1 you give. Itwill not cost you any extra. Gift aid cannot be claimed on annual fees, but can be claimed on life membership. Do get in touch with gift...
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Surviving ‘the politics factory’
advice stands; impact is about the quantum of effect the advice is likely to have; and practicality is about the political cost as well as technical practicality. Getting the balance among these right requires inside knowledge of the politics factory...
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"Making an AI-designed life form would be pretty fun"
The latter, Hsu reminds us, “is a thing people are doing real experiments to find out, which take months in the lab and cost tens of thousands of dollars”. Hsu says: “Long context is incredibly important if you want to read across, say, an entire legal...
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"Making an AI-designed life form would be pretty fun"
The latter, Hsu reminds us, “is a thing people are doing real experiments to find out, which take months in the lab and cost tens of thousands of dollars”. Hsu says: “Long context is incredibly important if you want to read across, say, an entire legal...
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Looking back on key highlights from 2024
an umbrella organisation representing the bioscience community and is encouraging to see an increase in numbers despite the cost of living crisis. We also awarded 10 travel grants and had over 70 nominations come through for the 2024 Top Student Award....
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The Evolutionary Ecology of Plant Disease
draws on theories from a diversity of sources, enabling robust analysis and management of epidemics. Bearing in mind the cost of the current UK pandemic inquiry, this book would be value for money reading for those concerned with future (plant) pandemic...
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Learning to love Lucilia
larval therapy, there is not only the ‘yuck’ factor to overcome, but also a lack of awareness. The logistical challenges and cost can get in the way too. It all adds up to larval therapy remaining a niche treatment that too often is used as a last...
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External Membership Services
Having invested heavily in a bespoke membership system, which has been in operation since 2012, the RSB is able to offer a cost-effective way for professional membership organisations to enhance and streamline their membership offering and free up...
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Enough about genes—what about ‘phenes’?
using chlorophyll fluorescence, and indirectly via thermography, but ‘gold-standard’ measurements still rely on relatively costly infra-red gas analysers (IRGAs) that are difficult to deploy at scale. Automated IRGAs have the potential to increase...
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Cloning for conservation
ferret You mentioned the resources going into a project such as black-footed ferret cloning. Can you tell me what sort of costs have been involved with that project? And whether it is feasible to spend that amount of money on the many thousands of...
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Cloning for conservation
ferret You mentioned the resources going into a project such as black-footed ferret cloning. Can you tell me what sort of costs have been involved with that project? And whether it is feasible to spend that amount of money on the many thousands of...
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Event Delivery Service
hosting on the day and finally to the post event wrap-up. The documentation was excellent, the support outstanding and the cost reasonable. The AS would definitely want to work with the RSB team again in the future." Dr Joanna Matthan, Honorary...
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Professional Registers
life sciences, and the development of one member may differ widely from the development of another. Elections The initial cost for registration is £20 for RSciTech, £25 for RSci, £55 for CBiol, £55 for CSciTeach and £55 for CSci. Once you areaccepted to...
