This project supports transition from primary to secondary school with peer to peer learning across age groups. Secondary students learn how to deliver the range of Gopher Science Lab activities to ...

when looking at the biodiversity of an area, or even leave them out altogether because they are “too hard”. “This really scares me when people make ecological assessments on that level. In flies, even ...

in terms of spidroin production and has led to great strides in development. Expression of recombinant spidroins in mammalian milk has been in development for the past decade. The use of transgenic ...

Nicola Hemmings examines the numerous factors that influence a sperm's chances of fertilising an egg The Biologist 62(4) p18-21 A sperm's journey from insemination to fertilisation can be likened to ...

10,000 polar artefacts, with a rolling exhibition and other artefacts kept in deep freeze vaults. Of course there are many exhibits belonging to the ill-fated Scott exhibition of 1912, including ...

cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme produce more oxylipins than non-wounded cells[15], the myxobacterium Myxococcus xanthus twitches more actively sensing oxylipins[16], and the slime mould ...

to future pests or diseases if only the survivors remain to produce seed. We are investigating whether there might be a trade-off between resistance to ash dieback and resistance to insect pests. An ...

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 ...

The Higher Education Bioscience Teacher of the Year Award seeks to identify the UK’s leading bioscience higher education (HE) teachers, recognising the invaluable role they play in educating and ...

many more ewes. The cow sheds too are quiet. They are very well ventilated. (A cow, if kept dry, does not suffer from the cold until the air temperature falls below minus 10C, a rare event in this ...

David J Gibson Oxford University Press, £18.99 There are not many books on plants that open with tales of orchid thefts, abducted babies, OJ Simpson and Ted Bundy. But this is no normal plant science ...

Full HUBS membership is open to university departments interested in contributing to debates on priorities in the biosciences. The Head of Department is normally the point of contact but they can also ...