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Bees are crucial pollinators, and we need them if we are to maintain a healthy diet. Along with Saviour Bees, we launched a citizen science survey to understand how Brits are using bee hotels, which are one way of boosting the chances for solitary bees by offering a refuge and a place to raise their next generation.

Science and business haven't always been the best bedfellows. But in a world of climate change, increasing levels of antibiotic resistance and a global pandemic, applying research outcomes is more important than ever.

Honeybees get all the press, but what about the other pollinators keeping our supermarket shelves stocked full of fruit and veg - not to mention chocolate and even tequila?

Codebreaking, computing, technological development, mathematics, interdisciplinarity. All of these make Earlham Institute a powerful catalyst for life science research, and would perhaps not have been so swiftly brought to bear if it weren’t for Alan Turing, whose birthday, life and achievements we celebrate today.

Bioinformatics is part of the full package.