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Clinical trials for rare diseases
29th February 2024 Clinical trials traditionally test new treatments on large cohorts of patients. But what if the treatment is for a condition which affects a very small number of people? In the UK, a disease is considered rare if it affects fewer...
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Public engagement grants
A selection of funding opportunities to support public engagement Royal Society of Biology – Outreach and Engagement Grant Scheme Individual members of the RSB, around the world, can apply directly for funding to help run an event or activity in their...
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Black History Month: Biologist and activist Margaret Collins, AKA 'the termite lady'
Margaret Collins in 1991 pictured outside the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington D.C. Image courtesy of Herbert and Veronica Collins with thanks to Vernard Lewis. The Biologist explores the USA’s first Black...
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Black History Month: Remembering Alan Powell Goffe
Above: Dr Alan Powell Goffe at his desk at Wellcome. 3rd October 2024 A pioneering Black virologist whose life was cut tragically short When microbiologist Alan Goffe drowned in the summer of 1966, aged 46, the world lost a brilliant biologist who had...
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Annual Award Ceremony captures Biology Week buzz
Over a hundred people attended the Society of Biology Annual Award Ceremony on Thursday 17th October at the King's Fund. The event celebrated the achievements of our members and biology enthusiasts who have engaged with the Society throughout the year....
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Self Delusion: The Surprising Science of How We Are Connected and Why That Matters
Tom Oliver W&N, £20.00 In our age of individualism, it’s good to stop and think about the endless connections between people and the world around us. Humans are made of cells that have circulated in the universe for millennia. More than half of our...
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Photography Competition Winners 2017
The theme for the photography competition in 2017 was The Hidden World. The Society would like to congratulate the winners and shortlisted photographers, who were celebrated at the Biology Week annual award ceremony. Photographer of the Year 2017:...
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Member profiles: Spiders, aquaculture and outreach
Our latest member profiles explore the working lives of Caribbean arachnologist Jo-Anne Nina Sewlal MRSB, marine biologist Joseph A Borg CBiol FRSB, and pharmacologist Nelson Chong FRSB These profiles appeared in the February / March 2020 issue of The...
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Shortlist announced for RSB School Biology Teacher of the Year Award 2021
Three teachers have been shortlisted for the Royal Society of Biology School Biology Teacher of the Year Award 2021. Three teachers have been shortlisted for the Royal Society of Biology School Biology Teacher of the Year Award 2021. The teachers...
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Let There Be Life: An Intimate Portrait of Robert Edwards and his IVF Revolution
Roger Gosden Jamestown Bookworks, £11.50 When I went to the Institute of Animal Genetics in 1955 to read a Diploma in Animal Genetics, nearly the first people I met were Bob Edwards and Ruth Fowler, who would become Bob’s wife the following year. I was...
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The wildlife of Chernobyl: 30 years without man
In the 30 years since the disaster at Chernobyl, wildlife in the highly radioactive 'Exclusion Zone' has thrived. Mike Wood and Nick Beresford report from a nature reserve like no other The Biologist 63(2) p16-19 The world's worst nuclear accident...
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Policy profile: Karendeep Sidhu MRSB
The RSB’s current policy intern on connecting science to society May 27th 2022 What made you apply for a policy internship at the Society? I’m currently doing a PhD on the role of sexual selection in adaptation to climate change. I studied...
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Herding the wild
Iain Gordon explores whether the concept of ‘rewilding lite’ can help us restore the biodiversity of agricultural land where the return of large herbivores and predators is not possible May 27th 2022 Across the UK and Europe land is being abandoned at...
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Hidden Heroes
In his first column as chair of The Biologist's Editorial Board, Professor Dan Davis reflects on how to celebrate the entire bioscience community - including those rarely in the limelight, like his technician Kevin. Feb 22nd 2021 We are learning to...
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RSB Policy Lates: Clinical research and tackling health outcome inequalities
Last week’s latest event in the RSB’s Policy Lates series brought together sector leaders to discuss the challenge of inequalities in clinical research and health outcomes amongst different communities. Last week’s latest event in the RSB’s Policy...
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If you go down to the woods today...
Mike Follows explores the bizarre biology and behaviour of ticks – and how to avoid the diseases they carry 12th December 2022 They don’t have eyes to see you, but they are waiting for you, too small to be spotted easily, but eager to feed on your...
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Restoration Dramas
Amid a boom in restoration initiatives on land Samantha Andrews looks at the more complex challenge of restoring ecosystems under the waves 12th December 2022 In June 2021 the United Nations announced the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration: “a rallying...
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Member profiles
Our latest profiles explore the working lives of Professor Gordon Maxwell FRSB, an ecologist and conservationist, and nurse and microbiologist Dr Suzy Clare Moody MRSB 20th February 2023 A DAY IN THE LIFE Professor Gordon S Maxwell FRSB on saving old...
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Neurodiversity across the life sciences
Neurodiversity describes the idea that people experience and interact with the world around them in many different ways; there is no one "right" way of thinking, learning, and behaving, and differences are not viewed as deficits. Last week, Professor...
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eDNA & accuracy: overcoming the challenges
Sam Perrin explores how ecologists and environmental scientists are overcoming gaps in data and concerns over accuracy to integrate eDNA into their work The enormous jumps we’ve made in genomics technology in recent decades have revolutionised every...
