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 ...

A successful career in a scientific lab environment needs leadership and management skills as well as research skills. To get the best from people, team leaders need to be able to form teams, provide ...

If you have been awarded a degree containing at least 50% biology in the final two years of study, or have a minimum of three years’ experience working in a full-time biology related position, you are ...

of pain using facial expressions in laboratory mice, rats, rabbits and macaques (NC3Rs) 8) Grimace scales (NC3Rs) 9) Mouse MApp (NC3Rs) 10) Kilkenny, C. et al. Survey of the quality of experimental ...

If you could outsource all your lab work to machines that run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, would you? Tom Ireland explores how a new generation of remote-operated labs can run your experiments ...

No formal qualification in biology is required for our affiliate grade, all you need is a passion for the life sciences and a desire to get involved with the biological community. Biology occupies a ...

Plant geneticist Dame Ottoline Leyser talks to Alison Woollard about the difference between working with animal and plant genomes, and her work to make science more inclusive The Biologist 64(4) ...

Shaping the future You might think that we know all there is to know about biology. It is true that we have learnt a lot (but not everything) about how individual bits and individual organisms work, ...

Theoretical epidemiologist professor Sunetra Gupta talks to Tom Ireland about alternative models of how and when COVID-19 could have spread through the UK Sunetra Gupta is professor of theoretical ...

Beth Shapiro, chief scientist at the de-extinction start-up Colossal, talks to Tom Ireland about the science and ethics of recreating long-lost species in a lab Professor Beth Shapiro is an ...

The theme for the photography competition in 2013 was Feeding Life.

The science policy team and education policy team develop responses to consultations on behalf of the Society, on topics including access to academic research, guidance on animal research, plant ...