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Applying spatial transcriptomics in plants

It is a revolutionary new way of looking at cells that is already having an impact across medical science. Now, the close-up lens of spatial transcriptomics is being turned to plants.

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The Earlham Institute (EI) is a hub of life science research, training, and innovation focused on understanding the natural world through the lens of genomics. Our mission is to decode the scale and complexity of living systems so we can understand, benefit from, and protect life on Earth.

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23 November 2023

Purple Bar moth is 1,000th species sequenced in landmark project

An ambitious project to sequence the genomes of all eukaryotic species found in Britain and Ireland has passed a major milestone.
08 November 2023

Scientists one step closer to rewriting world’s first synthetic yeast genome

Scientists have engineered a chromosome entirely from scratch that will contribute to the production of the world’s first synthetic yeast.
02 November 2023

Earlham Institute appoints Tim Kamombo and Dr Mike Csukai to Board of Trustees

The Earlham Institute has appointed two new Trustees to its Board, with Tim Kamombo and Dr Mike Csukai having taken up the posts at the Norwich-based life science research institute.
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Detection of DNA base modification using nanopore sequencing

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05 December 2023
Science
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Applying spatial transcriptomics in plants

It is a revolutionary new way of looking at cells that is already having an impact across medical science. Now, the close-up lens of spatial transcriptomics is being turned to plants.
29 November 2023
Science Technology
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Collaborating for our future

We can only survive the urgent threats facing humanity by working together to find innovative research solutions.
23 November 2023
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Marking telomeres on a simple ideogram in R

How to make a basic telomere-marked ideogram using just ggplot2.
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Rapid nanopore sequencing of preterm microbiota and proinflammatory biomarkers in infection mediated preterm labour

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