In 1988, French doctor Eliane Gluckman saved a five-year-old boy from North Carolina by treating him with what was then deemed medical waste. The boy had been diagnosed with Fanconi anaemia, a rare ...

In this ambitious book, biologist Tyler Volk attempts to describe the rich world around us in terms of an increasingly complex hierarchy of systems. Volk coins the phrase 'combogenesis' to describe ...

This is the sequel to Isabella Tree’s excellent book Wilding: The Return to Nature of a British Farm, which was published in 2018 and has sold a quarter of a million copies in eight languages. It is ...

This is a fascinating history of ‘climatic botany’: the relationship between forest and rainfall. The belief that forest and rainfall are closely connected has a long history, from Christopher ...

A new analysis of the genes common to bacteria and archaea offers strong evidence that the earliest cells on Earth lived deep in hydrothermal vents, explains William F Martin The Biologist 64(2) ...

The Viscount Stansgate FRSB addressed the House of Lords during a debate on Friday 17 January 2025 on the Consumer Products ...

The Royal Society of Biology is working in partnership with the Field Studies Council to bring you the Signs of Spring survey ...

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 ...