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"Making an AI-designed life form would be pretty fun"
6th December 2024 AI and gene-editing pioneer Patrick Hsu talks to The Biologist about Evo – arguably the most powerful AI model in biology – and his ambitions to create a fully virtual cell Patrick Hsu is co-founder and a core investigator at the Arc...
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"Making an AI-designed life form would be pretty fun"
6th December 2024 AI and gene-editing pioneer Patrick Hsu talks to The Biologist about Evo – arguably the most powerful AI model in biology – and his ambitions to create a fully virtual cell Patrick Hsu is co-founder and a core investigator at the Arc...
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Travellers' Tales
6th December 2024 Over the past decade, the RSB has helped fund travel for more than 100 early career biologists hoping to research, study or present abroad. With a new range of grants available, we asked the latest recipients how the funding supported...
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Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
The RSB is committed to ensuring equal opportunities in the life sciences, and supports diversity throughout the pipeline; at school and higher education, in the workplace and training. The Royal Society of Biology is committed to embedding and...
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Member Profiles
6th December 2024 Our latest profiles explore the working lives of flow cytometrist Aidee Sanchez, Dr Andrew Holding and his work on breast cancer resistance, and Professor Jim Lynch in his wide-ranging interdisciplinary career A DAY IN THE LIFE Aidee...
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Careers Q&A
21 February 2025 In the first of a series exploring bioscience careers, The Biologist’s young and early career advisory board talk to expert advisers in both academia and industry. What is the recruitment market like in UK life sciences at the moment?...
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MPs quizzed by young scientists at RSB’s Voice of the Future 2025
The Royal Society of Biology’s annual Voice of the Future event – where Parliamentarians are questioned by early career STEM researchers – took place on Monday 17 March 2025 on Zoom this year. The Royal Society of Biology’s annual Voice of the Future...
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BioArtAttack 2D
BioArtAttack (2D) 2025 competition This competition is for people aged 7-18 years old to draw or paint their favourite animal, plant or fungi. The competition is open to entries of two dimensional artworks only. Please read the competition's terms and...
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Society of Biology sets new World Record
The Society of Biology has set a new record for the world's largest memory game. At 14:30 on Friday 19th October 2012, 2,109 people at 40 venues in the UK, plus one in Bahrain, simultaneously played a 10 minute memory game. Venues included schools,...
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'Flat cash' for science in the Spending Review
In today's Spending Review, Chancellor George Osborne rightly highlighted the importance of science and innovation to the life of the nation, to quality of life and to economic growth, stating 'investment in science is an investment in our future'. In...
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Spotlight on: Mycology
The Biologist Vol 60(2) p36-37 Mycology is the study of fungi. It is closely associated with plant pathology as fungi cause the majority of plant disease. Why is mycology important? Fungi are the primary decomposers of organic material in many...
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How Your Body Works
Judy Hindley, illustrated by Colin King Usborne Publishing, £7.99 Judy Hindley, illustrated by Colin King Usborne Publishing, £7.99 To celebrate 40 years of children's publishing, Usborne is releasing 40 of its most loved books, including this...
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Results of the 2014 Public Attitudes to Science survey
Findings from the 2014 Public Attitudes to Science survey reveal a more positive perception than was found two years ago. This is the fifth in a series of studies looking at the UK public’s attitudes to science, scientists and science policy. Findings...
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Travellers’ Tales
Each year the Society awards twenty £500 travel grants for students or early career researchers to fund trips abroad that will help their work. Read about about projects with lobsters and molluscs in Canada, rabies in Tanzania, caterpillars in America...
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Regional Grant Scheme Events
Regional Grants of between £50 - £500 help members run an event or activity in their region that engages members and the local community with biology Currently in its fifth year, the grant scheme has funded over 100 events to take place across the UK...
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Spotlight on: Parasitology
The Biologist Vol 61(4) p32-33 Parasitology is the study of the interaction between parasites and their hosts. In general, parasitologists tend to concentrate on eukaryotic parasites, such as lice, mites, protozoa and worms, with prokaryotic parasites...
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Biology: Changing the World - What is it?
Biology: Changing the World celebrates the great biologists of the past in order to inspire those of the future. The website, mobile app and schools resources are packed with information and activities about the biologists that shaped the world we live...
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Medicine
There a host of careers in healthcare where you will be playing a crucial role in the diagnosis, prevention and cure of disease and illness, helping people across the world. A career in medicine doesn’t just mean ‘become a doctor’. Follow a career in...
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Future
Shaping the future You might think that we know all there is to know about biology. It is true that we have learnt a lot (but not everything) about how individual bits and individual organisms work, but organisms (be it humans, animals, plants or even...
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Society awards outstanding science communicators
Kate McAllister from the University of Cambridge and Dr Nicola Hemmings from the University of Sheffield have been named as the winners of the Society of Biology's Science Communication Awards 2014. Kate McAllister from the University of Cambridge and...
