TheBiologistThe society of biology magazine ■ ISN 0006-3347 ■ societyofbiology.org Vol 61 No 2 ■ APR/MAy 2014

Why have we done so little to protect the great apes? Our closest kin

TOXICOLOGY

POISON TO POTION The medical potential of arsenic

NEUROSCIENCE

GUIDING LIGHT Understanding behaviour with optogenetics

INTERVIEW

DR ALISON WOOLLARD

On her Royal Institution Lectures