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The Royal Society of Biology has announced this year’s winner of the Higher Education Bioscience Teacher of the Year Award.
This year, the RSB’s Annual General Meeting took place on Wednesday 21 May 2025 at the Geological Society at Burlington House, London as well as online. Among the highlights were updates provided by ...
Over 150 guests joined us for the RSB’s Bioscience Careers Day events (BCD) in March, hearing from a selection of industry professionals about the variety of careers available to bioscience graduates.
Perhaps nowhere else in the world are the effects of climate change more apparent than in the Arctic, where warming weather conditions are already resulting in significant changes to the extent and ...
The Royal Society of Biology offers its congratulations to two of its Fellows who have recently been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s National Academy for the ...
The RSB is devastated to announce the death of former colleague Alessandro Coatti who was murdered in Colombia. Alessandro, known as Ale, worked for the Royal Society of Biology for eight years as ...
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. MPs and ...
Four bioscience winners were selected from 30 finalists at the annual STEM for BRITAIN competition for early career researchers, with a member of the RSB claiming the Gold Award. Early-career research ...
The winners of the Royal Society of Biology’s BioCraft competition (previously BioArtAttack 3D) 2025 have been announced. Participants were asked to create a biology-inspired 3D artwork from recycled ...
My team is a small one, comprising post-doc Sarah Raffan and PhD student Joe Oddy, but we make full use of the support available at Rothamsted, from wheat transformation through to GM field trial ...
Dr Mark Downs PhD DSc (Hon) CSci CBiol FRSB, Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Biology, has announced he will retire in September 2025. Having stepped into the role in 2009 to steer the newly ...
Maggots can clean wounds and stimulate them to heal like no other treatment. Tom Ireland explores how they do it, and how to overcome the ‘yuck’ factor Professor Yamni Nigam is passionate about ...