The Royal Society of Biology would like to congratulate five Fellows who have been recognised in this year’s New Year Honours ...

Some universities have year long industrial placements built into their bioscience degree courses. Under the watch of an assigned supervisor they allow students to build upon skills learnt through ...

The ASE's Annual Conference is at the University of Nottingham's University Park Campus for 2025.

The Events Working Group (EWG) is a new initiative by the Royal Society of Biology (RSB) to curate and manage high-quality, accessible events for individual and organisational members. Its primary ...

Epigenetics explains almost any change in DNA function that is not caused by a mutation. The 'epigenome' at its simplest is the cellular machinery that switches on or off certain genes, allowing stem ...

The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that around a third of all soils are degraded due to erosion, being overworked or industrialisation. At the same time, the pressure is on ...

I am not surprised that Professor Spiegelhalter has an OBE and a knighthood for services to statistics, and is an FRS – this is a most elegant book, which I read with great pleasure. His style is ...

To celebrate 100 years since the formation of the Genetics Society, Alison Woollard talks to geneticist Jonathan Hodgkin about a centenary of remarkable progress and what they both owe to mutant worms ...

A much-encouraged trend in scientific research has been the emphasis of ‘interdisciplinary’ research. The idea here is that if a biologist decides to start a research project with, say, a geologist or ...