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08 October 2025

Helping the world transition to sustainable agriculture

For the first time, four major multi-national companies - BASF, Bayer, Corteva and Syngenta - visited the Norwich Research Park to discuss the urgent need to develop solutions for sustainable agriculture.
06 October 2025

New wheat diversity discovery could provide an urgently-needed solution to global food security

Newly-discovered diversity in the wheat genome could offer vital new opportunities to improve and ‘climate-proof’ one of the world’s most important staple crops.
23 September 2025

New BBSRC funding supports expansion of transformative spatial science

The Earlham Institute has expanded its spatial transcriptomic capabilities with the addition of the Vizgen MERSCOPE UltraTM to its cutting-edge Technology Platforms, thanks to funding from the BBSRC ALERT scheme.
01 September 2025

Single-cell genomics reveals hidden bacterial threats in Amoeba

Scientists sequencing two free-living amoebae related to the deadly “brain-eating amoeba” Naegleria fowleri discovered they both contain bacteria linked to Legionnaires’ disease.
26 August 2025

New project explores potential of soil microbes to achieve UK net zero goals

Researchers are combining the latest science in climate forecasting and soil science to understand how land use management could enable soil carbon storage.
18 June 2025

ELIXIR-UK awarded strategic funding to support UK life sciences data community

ELIXIR-UK has been awarded a five-year grant from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
02 June 2025

Scientists look to biotechnology to improve crop resilience and nutritional value

A new project - funded by a £8.5M grant from the UK Government’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) - will leverage advances in engineering biology to establish synthetic plant chromosome (synPAC) technologies.