Understanding climate change and infectious disease: is the one health movement enough?
In the coming decades, climate change is predicted to produce a range of direct and indirect impacts on both human and animal health. At the most basic level, rising temperatures and changes to rainfall...
Minister sounds an optimist note
Bioscience Journal asked Life Sciences Minister George Freeman to assess the progress being made.
As the UK’s first ever minister for Life Sciences, I am determined to ensure that Britain remains the best place in...
Bioscience Expertise, Training, and Equipment Access
Bioscience Technology is moving so quickly that radical approaches have to be taken to ensure researchers have sustainable access to cutting-edge expertise, equipment and training. The Bioscience Technology Facility is an exemplar which proves...
Collaborative mouse research will benefit study of human disease
Sequencing the mouse and human genomes has provided scientists detailed knowledge of both species’ genetic composition, and highlighted their startling similarity. Together with ever more sophisticated methods to manipulate the mouse genome, this has established...