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Book Award Shortlists Announced
Rachel Green, Carol Greider, Gisela Storz, Cynthia Wolberger and Orna Cohen-Fix (Oxford University Press) Primer to the Immune Response by Tak W Mak, Mary Saunders and Bradley Jett (Elsevier) Vertebrate Endocrinology, 5th edition by David Norris and...
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2014 Book Awards Winners
Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding George Monbiot Allen Lane Undergraduates textbook Primer to the Immune Response Tak W Mak, Mary Saunders and Bradley Jett Elsevier Postgraduates textbook Pheromones and Animal Behaviour, 2nd...
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Society Awards Celebrate Biology Books and Art
demands on our natural capital. The creation of powerful images makes the reader feel involved in the story.” Primer to the Immune Response by Tak W Mak, Mary Saunders and Bradley Jett was named best undergraduate textbook and Pheromones and Animal...
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Biology Now event covers breadth of life sciences
on and off by TB, researchers have discovered that the bacteria is able to switch off certain pathways in the body’s immune response. Professor Munir Pirmohamed from the University of Liverpool explained how genomic data would bring 'transformational...
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Crick Questions: Sir Paul Nurse
damage to DNA that ultimately causes cancer. If we can spot it earlier and find new ways to manage it, like modifying the immune system, we have a reasonable chance over a few decades of reducing the mortality and therefore the fear of the disease....
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The Compatibility Gene
not many with which to respond to everything from an infectious virus to a transplanted kidney. The intricacies of the immune system are only matched by the ingenuity of those who have unravelled them and whose stories are told in this absorbing book....
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A killer cure
pathogens inside the living zebrafish. After about four hours, the pathogen numbers drop ridiculously low and it gives the immune system a chance to finish off those that remain. What do pathogens do to repel an attack by BvB? Could they become...
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A Meaty Mystery
primates: galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose, or alpha-gal. Alpha-gal is familiar to many scientists – its ability to trigger immune reactions is why organs taken from animals have never been transplanted successfully into people. The puzzle was why the drug...
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My Lab Unlocked: Dr Jill Johnson MRSB
are investigating the role of pericytes in supporting vascular regeneration in COPD and the crosstalk between pericytes and immune cells that coordinate the chronic, maladaptive inflammation that is a hallmark of many lung diseases. The fact that...
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Ants feasting on honeydew and cells destroying tuberculosis: the shortlist and winners of the RSB's Photography competition
the coils of the golden tree snake bite. Spiderman of our body Photographer: Chanchal Sur Chowdhury Location: Missouri, USA Immune cells communicate with each other to protect our body from evading foreign particles or microorganisms. Here, neutrophil...
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My Lab Unlocked: Dr Lynda Partridge FRSB
they act as membrane “organisers”; meaning they’re involved in a very wide range of functions, including fertility, the immune response, cancer progression and susceptibility to infections. It has long been known that tetraspanins are important in viral...
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Breaking down barriers
physically and chemically prevent antibiotics from reaching the bacterial cells. This barrier can also prevent the hosts’ immune systems from clearing the infection too, making infections persistent or chronic. What’s more, the close contact between the...
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Listening In
to all species – ‘tjuvvlyssnar’translates as ‘listen thief’. Theft is rife in the animal kingdom and information is not immune. A 2015 study found that 74 species of animal had been documented as responding to playback of alarm calls issued by another...
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The future of genetic tech: animal innovation from lab to farm
efficiency. The range of biological questions that can be posed is extremely diverse, ranging from better understanding of immune function to translational biomedical models, and from interrogating the function of specific genes to the production of...
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2021 animal research national statistics released
scrutiny. 51% of experimental procedures were classed as basic research, most commonly focusing on the nervous system, the immunesystem, and cancer. 21% of experimental procedures were for regulatory purposes, a decrease from 33% in 2020. This year...
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Dangerous drivers
one of these genes to a gene that would alter the target animal – for example, by inducing sterility or making a mosquito immune to malaria – it would theoretically be possible to ‘drive’ that character into every member of a population. With the advent...
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Eating gamma radiation for breakfast
really severe cases of fungal disease where the fungi have thick layers of melanin in their cell wall and the patient’s immune system can do nothing against them.” Dadachova’s interest in radiotrophic fungi began during her postdoc studies, when she was...
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2022 national statistics on the use of animals in science released
purposes: around half of procedures (53%) were for basic research, most commonly focusing on the nervous system, the immune system, and cancer. 21% of experimental procedures were for regulatory purposes, a similar figure to 2021. These procedures...
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Reports
show that the highest casualties are often the result of disease. He suggested that in counteracting infection the immune system follows the same strategy and that we should therefore learn from the best leaders, build the best armies, gather...
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Honorary Fellows L-R
interaction. She is visiting professor at UCL and vice-chair at Sense about Science. She had a research career focused on immune response to parasitic infections at the UK MRC before becoming director of the Wellcome Trust where she helped make the...
