The Royal Society of Biology has published an open letter from Professor Dudley Shallcross OBE FRSB to Professor Becky Francis CBE, Chair of Curriculum and Assessment Review, and the review panel.

Above: A rainbow captured over the drilling rig of the research vessel JOIDES Resolution. Image courtesy of IODP JRSO Yuki Morono explains why the discovery of living bacteria in 100 million year old ...

Dame Julia, perhaps you could tell the readers of The Biologist a bit about yourself? JG: I've just retired as vice-chancellor at the University of Kent. Prior to that, I was chief executive of the ...

Since the pandemic began Tom Ireland has been talking to bioscientists from around the world who have sprung into action to help to understand, track and treat COVID-19 In early March, as the number ...

Sir Paul Nurse Hon FRSB, director of the Crick Institute, on turning Europe's largest biomedical research centre into a giant testing facility. Can you summarise how the Crick shifted its focus since ...

Above: The protein CD9 in an activated human macrophage, captured using super-resolution microscopy (STED) - Ashley Ambrose and Daniel M. Davis, University of Manchester An exclusive extract from ...

For an increasingly urbanised population, the agricultural landscape is a distant view from the car on long journeys – often beautiful and peaceful, but far removed from our daily lives. Look closely, ...

The International Genetically Engineered Machine competition, or iGEM, encourages teams of students to solve real-world challenges through the creation of genetically engineered molecules or ...

Imagine for a moment that you are looking at a perfect stream. What do you see? Your answer will probably depend on where in the country you live, but it is unlikely to involve large, unsightly ...

Liz Bonnin was born in Paris before moving to Ireland as a child. After studying biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin, a whirlwind showbiz career led to her presenting UK breakfast television and ...

Marine ecologist Dr Laetitia Gunton MRSB on life in the remote waters of the Southern Ocean Marine ecologist Dr Laetitia Gunton studies deep-sea annelid worms. She is currently based at the Australian ...

Erica McAlister is senior curator of Diptera at the Natural History Museum (NHM) and published her first book, The Secret Life of Flies, in 2017. Within a few minutes of meeting her it’s clear that I ...