The ASE's Annual Conference is at the University of Nottingham's University Park Campus for 2025.

The Events Working Group (EWG) is a new initiative by the Royal Society of Biology (RSB) to curate and manage high-quality, accessible events for individual and organisational members. Its primary ...

The Royal Society of Biology would like to congratulate five Fellows who have been recognised in this year’s New Year Honours ...

The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that around a third of all soils are degraded due to erosion, being overworked or industrialisation. At the same time, the pressure is on ...

I am not surprised that Professor Spiegelhalter has an OBE and a knighthood for services to statistics, and is an FRS – this is a most elegant book, which I read with great pleasure. His style is ...

Epigenetics explains almost any change in DNA function that is not caused by a mutation. The 'epigenome' at its simplest is the cellular machinery that switches on or off certain genes, allowing stem ...

A much-encouraged trend in scientific research has been the emphasis of ‘interdisciplinary’ research. The idea here is that if a biologist decides to start a research project with, say, a geologist or ...

To celebrate 100 years since the formation of the Genetics Society, Alison Woollard talks to geneticist Jonathan Hodgkin about a centenary of remarkable progress and what they both owe to mutant worms ...

A carnivorous plant is something of a contradiction within the plant kingdom. Plants are generally considered to be organisms that can ‘make’ their own food from inorganic substances and then release ...

The scientists behind the big genetics breakthroughs of the last century couldn't have imagined that, by 2014, extracting, sequencing and modifying DNA would be simple and cheap enough to try at home.