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Biology’s Dark Matter: the unseen life with a huge impact

Feature | 5 min READ

Biology’s Dark Matter: the unseen life with a huge impact


Animals, plants and fungi are mere branches among the thousands that branch off the tree of life. At EI, we’re exploring the less explored of those boughs, where the vast diversity of life exists - among the protists.

  • 16 September 2019
  • Learning
Saving the spectacled bear of deepest, darkest Colombia

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Saving the spectacled bear of deepest, darkest Colombia


It’s not a lack of marmalade sandwiches that threatens the spectacled bear, but fragmented habitats that have seen populations of South America’s only bear species decline. How will science at Earlham Institute help us to protect this elusive species?

  • 10 September 2019
  • Learning
Barney Bee is buzzing for Norwich Science Festival

Feature | 5 min READ

Barney Bee is buzzing for Norwich Science Festival


Last year we brought you the award winning Pink Pigeon trail. This year we’re going even bigger, with an exploration of pollinators, food & health.

  • 06 September 2019
  • Public engagement
  • Learning
Python for biologists: the code of bioinformatics

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Python for biologists: the code of bioinformatics


The increasing necessity to process big data and develop algorithms in all fields of science mean that programming is becoming an essential skill for scientists, with Python the language of choice for the majority of bioinformaticians.

  • 03 September 2019
  • Technology
10 surprising things you might not know about evolution

Feature | 8 min READ

10 surprising things you might not know about evolution


Evolution. There’s much more to it than is commonly understood.

  • 30 August 2019
  • Learning
We're ten years old: leading the field in decoding complex, non-human genomes

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We're ten years old: leading the field in decoding complex, non-human genomes


Ten ways our expertise has led the way in how we decode complex, non-human genomes.

  • 21 August 2019
  • Learning
  • CSP
Bread and butter: decoding wheat

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Bread and butter: decoding wheat


Integral to the international effort that brought us the bread wheat genome, decoding this complex, hexaploid crop - from sequence to assembly, annotation and even mapping the epigenome - has been at the heart of what we do at Earlham Institute.

  • 12 August 2019
  • Learning
  • CSP
Where bees collect pollen

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Where bees collect pollen


Bees are in decline. How can technology and algorithm development boost their chances, through understanding which wild flowers they pollinate?

  • 07 August 2019
  • Science
  • CSP