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Reports
Unearthing the buried soul: Homo naledi and the evolution of hominin mortuary practices 19 July 2021 How have awareness of mortality and the rituals associated with death and treatment of human remains evolved over time? Is modern Homo sapiens unique...
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Reports
Molecular diagnostic tools in livestock disease testing 5 August 2023 Dr Rajib Deb, senior scientist at the ICAR-National Research Centre on Pig (Indian Council of Agricultural Research) in India, delivered a talk on "molecular diagnostic tools in...
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Interviews
As part of the project, we interviewed over 50 individuals working in the field of biology, from Nobel Laureates to PhD students and asking them about their inspirational heroes within the field of biology and beyond. As part of the project, we...
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Honorary Fellow and double Nobel Prize winner Fred Sanger dies aged 95
Dr Fred Sanger, winner of two Nobel Prizes and Honorary Fellow of the Society of Biology, died on 19th November 2013 at the age of 95. Dr Mark Downs, chief executive of the Society of Biology says: "We are saddened to hear of the death of Dr Sanger but...
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Honorary Fellows L-R
Our Honorary Fellows listed by surname: A - F G - K L - R S - Z Dr Federico Mayor Zaragoza Hon FRSB Dr Federico Mayor Zaragoza is the president of the Culture of Peace Foundation and chair of the World Forum of Civil Society Networks (UBUNTU), where he...
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Biology Book Awards Shortlists Revealed
The Royal Society of Biology is delighted to announce the shortlists for its annual Book Awards. The Royal Society of Biology is delighted to announce the shortlists for its annual Book Awards. The awards celebrate outstanding biology books for the...
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Twist of Fate
Developmental biologist Dr Alison Woollard tells Tom Ireland about her Royal Institution Lectures, and how cells know what to do The Biologist Vol 61(2) p30-33 Dr Alison Woollard FSB is a dean and lecturer in genetics at the department of biochemistry...
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Book Awards
The Book Awards ran from 2013-2016 and celebrated outstanding biology books for the general reader, as well as exceptional undergraduate and postgraduate textbooks. There were three categories: General Biology Book Prize A prize of £500 for an...
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Honorary Fellows G-K
Our Honorary Fellows listed by surname: A - F G - K L - R S - Z Dr Jane Goodall DBE Hon FRSB Dr Jane Goodall is an English UN Messenger of Peace and ethologist most famous for her 45 year study of chimpanzee social and family interactions in Tanzania...
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Blue Plaques unveiled around the UK
The Society of Biology celebrated the eminent and sometimes unsung heroes of biology by unveiling ten blue plaques across the UK during February and March 2015. The Society of Biology celebrated the eminent and sometimes unsung heroes of biology by...
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Waste opportunity
Could metalotollerant bacteria help produce valuable metal nanoparticles from the world’s spent batteries? Giovanni Maddalena, Professor Louise Horsfall FRSB and Dr Virginia Echavarri-Bravo explain 28th September 2020 Lithium-ion batteries power our...
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Don't judge a scientist by their degree grade
A survey of Fellows of the Royal Society reveals many distinguished scientists might struggle to get a research post nowadays The Biologist 63(1) p7 Many people, for many reasons, have failed to get the grades they are capable of, or messed up their...
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Safe Haven
Paul Weindling explores Britain's role supporting refugee biologists escaping war and persecution The Biologist Vol 61(6) p24-27 Between 1933 and 1945, the UK took in numerous biologists displaced by Nazism, Italian fascism and the Second World War....
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The Compatibility Gene
Daniel M Davis Allen Lane, £20.00 Daniel M Davis Allen Lane, £20.00 In 1940, when Peter Medwar was 25, he watched a British bomber crash-land in a nearby garden. The pilot survived with severe burns, and the sight of this agony prompted Medwar to study...
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Society of Biology prize goes to pupils making sustainable clothes
Four pupils from the Isle of Man have received the Society of Biology Prize at the UK’s prestigious National Science and Engineering Competition. Four pupils from the Isle of Man have received the Society of Biology Prize at the UK’s prestigious...
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Into the Twitterspere
Not on Twitter? Social media and research go hand in hand, says Rebecca Nesbit The Biologist 61(4) p8 Imagine this scenario: it's almost the end of your PhD and you're broke and jobless. Then, at a conference, you overhear a professor you'd like to...
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UK biologist scoops 2014 Nobel Prize
John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser have been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries of specific cells that control the brain’s 'GPS system'. John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser have been...
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Biology Now event covers breadth of life sciences
The Society holds its first one-day conference, Biology Now, with talks covering a vast array of bioscience from the way DNA is packed into a cell to the macroeconomics of the natural world. Yesterday, the Society of Biology held its first one-day...
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Plaque celebrating Hodgkin and Huxley unveiled in Plymouth
This morning a plaque celebrating Sir Alan Hodgkin and Sir Andrew Huxley, who put electrodes into squid to further understanding of our nervous system, was unveiled by the Society of Biology at the Marine Biological Association in Plymouth. This...
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Plaque celebrating Fred Sanger unveiled in Cambridge
On Saturday 7th March a plaque celebrating Fred Sanger, the father of DNA sequencing, was unveiled at his former home in Cambridge. On Saturday 7th March a plaque celebrating Fred Sanger, the father of DNA sequencing, was unveiled at his former home in...
