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How to... reduce your lab's plastic waste
David Kuntin on how he and his colleagues have cut the amount of plastic their lab sends to landfill each year by more than a tonne The Biologist 65(6) p28-31 Biology laboratories rely heavily on single-use plastics in their day-to-day operations. In...
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Sensing success at iGEM
A team of scientists from the University of Nottingham explain their competition project – a novel system to detect botulinum toxins in food The Biologist 66(6) p26-29 Every October thousands of students from around the world gather in Boston, USA, for...
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Making Waves
This year marks 200 years since HMS Beagle was launched. Richard Oliver, John Canaris and Angela Hutchings look at the history of this famous vessel and how it made its mark on science April 2nd 2020 HMS Beagle was a modest ship that had a...
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Green Growth That Works: Natural Capital Policy and Finance Mechanisms Around the World
Lisa Mandle, Zhiyun Ouyang, James Salzman and Gretchen C Daily (Eds) Island Press, £26.00 For more than two decades environmental economists have promoted the concept of ‘natural capital’ to account for the value of nature to our health and economies....
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“Everyone leaves their ego at the door and is so upbeat, even at 4am"
Adrienne Adele Cox tells Tom Ireland about volunteering at one of three new mega-labs built to scale up COVID-19 testing in the UK. In early April the first of three mass-testing laboratories known as 'Lighthouse Labs' opened in Milton Keynes. With the...
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Member profiles: Deep-sea worms, malaria and policy
Our latest member profiles explore the working lives of marine ecologist Laetitia Gunton MRSB, cell biologist professor Jake Baum FRSB, and science policy expert Nicola Marchant FRSB These profiles appeared in the June / July 2020 issue of The...
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Policy Profile: Dr Jade Hall MRSB
The RSB's senior science policy officer on her work to help scientists thrive whatever their background 8th September 2021 What do you do at the RSB? I'm responsible for policy activities that tend to be related to the individual scientist – so...
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Winners of the RSB’s Outreach and Engagement Award 2021 announced
Two outstanding bioscience researchers have been recognised with this year’s RSB Outreach and Engagement Awards. Two outstanding bioscience researchers have been recognised with this year’s RSB Outreach and Engagement Awards. The RSB Outreach and...
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Is nature healing?
The ‘anthropause’ caused by COVID-19 restrictions has allowed nature to temporarily rebound in some ways, but also reveals how crucial humans are to the fates of animals and ecosystems, Professor Christian Rutz tells Tom Ireland September 8th 2021 It...
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Forging connections at RSB’s outreach and engagement conference
Around 100 early career researchers and public engagement professionals came together for this year’s RSB’s Outreach and Engagement symposium, RSB Connect. Around 100 early career researchers and public engagement professionals came together for this...
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Is nature healing?
The ‘anthropause’ caused by COVID-19 restrictions has allowed nature to temporarily rebound in some ways, but also reveals how crucial humans are to the fates of animals and ecosystems, Professor Christian Rutz tells Tom Ireland September 8th 2021 It...
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Painting for public health
Above: Patachitra painting depicting the Asian tsunami of 2004, by Swarna Chitrakar Information about science and health is often in written form – despite the fact that hundreds of millions of people around the world cannot read. Sreyashi Basu and...
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Is nature healing?
The ‘anthropause’ caused by COVID-19 restrictions has allowed nature to temporarily rebound in some ways, but also reveals how crucial humans are to the fates of animals and ecosystems, Professor Christian Rutz tells Tom Ireland September 8th 2021 It...
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Member profiles
Our latest member profiles explore the working lives of student environmentalist Gauravi Kaushik; research technician Adama Saccoh AMRSB; and tree health policy advisor, Dr Clari Burrell AMRSB These profiles appeared in the Summer 2022 issue of The...
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The biology of grandmothers
Evolutionary biologist Nichola Raihani introduces an exclusive extract from her book The Social Instinct, exploring why women experience a physiological menopause where fertility ceases long before death. As an evolutionary biologist, I’m fascinated by...
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Reports
6th and 7th Annual General Meeting of the RSB Hong Kong branch 22 July 2022 Due to Covid restrictions in Hong Kong this meeting was held as both the 6th and 7th Annual General Meeting of the Royal Society of Biology Hong Kong branch. Like our previous...
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Building a nation of biologists
Lauren MᶜLeod MRSB on the RSB’s priorities for improving biology teaching and learning at all levels over the next five years 20th February 2023 The Society is committed to supporting and encouraging the study of biology at primary, secondary and...
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"No-one is looking for sequences with anywhere near the scale and depth that we do”
Basecamp Research is scanning the planet for new and potentially useful protein sequences at an unprecedented rate — using AI to find molecules with commercially useful functions in biodiversity hotspots and understudied biomes. Can the start-up’s...
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Interview: Basecamp Research
Basecamp Research is scanning the planet for new and potentially useful protein sequences at an unprecedented rate — using AI to find molecules with commercially useful functions in biodiversity hotspots and understudied biomes. Can the start-up’s...
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Serpent solutions
23rd February 2024 Sakthi Vaiyapuri FRSB explores how a new generation of antivenoms, alongside better education and more attention, could help reduce snakebite-related deaths For over a billion people everyday tasks such as walking to school, fetching...
