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Welcome to the RSB's A-Z of the Biosciences video series! Each video focusses on a different area of biology, with our biologists sharing the highlights of their work. Each video has details of the ...
Attending a face to face training course can develop your skills and knowledge and provide opportunities for you to network and learn from others. Below is a list of the RSB training topics, subject ...
With different education reforms underway in each of the four UK nations, the RSB has been working hard to ensure better biology and science education for all young people Across the UK, governments ...
The Royal Society of Biology encourages all members to undertake suitable continuing professional development (CPD) and maintain appropriate records of this. This ensures members stay up to date with ...
These resources were developed in partnership with BBSRC’s Global Food Security initiative. They include Key Stage 4/ S4 biology resources related to the carbon cycle, food production and food waste ...
Shells are more present in our lives than we may realise – from having practical uses, such as a source of food, to being of ornamental value, or educational value, given their origins, evolution and ...
People think of chameleons as the masters of camouflage, but the coleoids – octopuses, squid and cuttlefish – are far ahead in terms of manipulating their appearance[1]. Because their skin appearance ...
This book covers a wide variety of topics and is structured around the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, issued in 2000 and adopted in Nagoya in 2010. Each of the 16 global targets of the ...
The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) is an international conservation charity. ZSL engages with millions of people through two zoos, ZSL London and ZSL Whipsnade Zoo, each year. ZSL are actively ...
Proteomics is the large-scale study of proteins. The term was coined in the 1990s to make an analogy with genomics, the study of genomes. The entire set of proteins that are made by an organism or ...
How many neurons are in a brain? Why do we draw neurons as we do in biology classes? What advances led to the discovery of axons? Richard Wingate weaves contemporary neurobiology with history of ...