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20 October 2025

New fellowship launched to embed FAIR data across the UK life sciences

BioFAIR - a UKRI-funded federated digital research infrastructure for UK life science researchers - has announced its inaugural cohort of ten fellows.
18 July 2022

Earlham Institute to contribute £4bn to global economy over next decade

The Earlham Institute is expected to contribute around £4 billion to the global economy over the next 10 years, according to a new socioeconomic impact report on the Norwich-based research institute.
29 June 2022

Big Data initiative awarded £6.3 million as part of major UKRI investment in research infrastructure

UK Research and Innovation has awarded £6.3 million of new funding to support the development of BioFAIR, a collaborative virtual infrastructure that will support the sharing and management of life science data.
24 May 2022

Discover the Darwin Tree of Life project at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition

A landmark project to sequence the genomes of all 70,000 species of eukaryotic organisms in Britain and Ireland will be on show this summer at one of the largest free science festivals in the UK.
16 May 2022

Earlham Institute appoints new Chair of Board of Trustees

The Earlham Institute has appointed Professor Peter Holland as its new Chair of the Board of Trustees.
13 May 2022

Not all looks rosy for the pink pigeon

Boosting numbers of the once critically endangered pink pigeon may not be enough to save it from extinction in the future, according to a major study on the iconic species.
02 May 2022

Coronavirus jams communication signals to immune cells in the gut

A computer model could help to reveal how some infectious diseases - including COVID-19 - trigger an overactive immune response in certain patients, which can drive inflammation and lead to serious complications or even death.