16 April 2019

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), a grade IV brain tumor, is the most common malignant primary brain cancer in adults. Patients with GBM have a poor prognosis following standard therapy, with a 5-year survival rate of only 3-5%. Although novel therapies against GBM have been tested, the standard care has remained unaltered for over 15 years.

8 January 2019

Who better to tell you than someone who has been to one? Antonio Barral Gil, a PhD student in Miguel Manzanare’s Lab at CNIC (The Spanish Center for Cardiac Research) in Madrid, attended Development’s Meeting “From stem cells to human development” in September 2018.

18 July 2018

I undertook my PIPS internship at The Company of Biologists in the Spring of 2018. I wanted to get a feel for what the publishing industry is like from the ‘other side’, as it were, as well as a more general interest in exploring a career in science outside of the laboratory.

From left to right: Julija Hmeljak (Reviews Editor), Sam Holden (PIPS Data Intern), Máté Pálfy (preLights Community Manager) and Claire Moulton (Publisher).

1 May 2018

The Company of Biologists Workshop ‘Symbiosis in the Microbial World: From Ecology to Genome Evolution’ took place at Wiston House, West Sussex, UK, from 5 to 9 November 2017.

19 April 2018

Transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC – stem cells that produce new blood cells) is a common treatment for several leukaemias. Following transfusion, HSCs migrate from the circulatory system into bone marrow niches, where they begin a process of self-renewal and proliferation that supports lifelong normal blood cell production.

25 March 2019

The Company of Biologists Workshop ‘Evo-Chromo: Towards an Integrative Approach of Chromatin Dynamics Across Eukaryotes’ took place at Wiston House, West Sussex, UK, from 4 to 7 November 2018.

20 July 2018

The distinguished career of Prof. Simon Maddrell, Emeritus Honorary Professor of Integrative Physiology at Cambridge University, has long been intertwined with the history of The Company of Biologists, and particularly with Journal of Experimental Biology (JEB).

30 May 2018

By Prof. Genoveva F. Esteban, Bournemouth University, UK

This is the story of a journey that started a few years back with the finding of a rare community of single-celled organisms in a small and isolated pond in a Dorset nature reserve.

1 May 2018

The Company of Biologists Workshop ‘Thinking Beyond the Dish: Taking In Vitro Neural Differentiation to the Next Level’ took place at Wiston House, West Sussex, UK, from 4 to 7 February 2018.

12 April 2018

At The Company of Biologists we take the security of your personal data very seriously. In this video we explain our views on the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and our data protection promise to you.