Biology Resources (page 26)

The scientific community is under unprecedented scrutiny in the age of climate change denial and even evolution denial. I feel that we are slow to react to this interest and as a resu...

Introduction For dwellers in a big city like London, it is not unusual to discover new favourite restaurants, shops or other places of interest in distant, unfamiliar regions. Whe...

Objective: Yeasts are unicellular microbes with which many people are familiar. In particular, the species Saccharomyces cerevisiae has served the human kind for thousands of years i...

Lungs and Lung Disease Respiratory System - Mouth Trachea - flexible airway Bronchi - two divisions in the trachea Bronchioles - series of branching subdivisions of the br...

In the cells, strands of messenger RNA (mRNA) are translated to form a chain of amino acids, which can then fold to form a 3D protein. Translation can be divided into 3 critical stage...

Ecology Banks and Education This editorial follows on from the one in an earlier edition of the JBE, written by my good friend and colleague, Jean Wilson: it picks up and extends s...

Every 24 hours, almost 200 people die because suitable organs are not available. Last year more than 7,000 Americans died while awaiting an organ transplant; two times the amount of A...