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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 ...
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 ...
Marine experts came together for the latest Policy Lates event to discuss the importance and challenges of protecting ocean biodiversity. The world’s oceans are key components of our global ecosystem ...
The Home Office has released the statistics for animal use in science in Great Britain for 2022, with data showing that the total number of procedures was down almost 10% compared to 2021. Overall ...
The Royal Society of Biology’s annual BioArtAttack competition received a record 362 entries this year, which included digital art, models and paintings, depicting a huge variety of topics from across ...
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 ...
Venom is generally synonymous with death and misfortune, but there’s more to venom than you might think. Containing a mix of hundreds of proteins, peptides and other components that have evolved to ...
The AGM was chaired by Professor Sir Ian Boyd FRSB, president of the Royal Society of Biology now entering his third year in the role. Dr Mark Downs CBiol CSci FRSB presented an overview of RSB ...
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 ...