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01 December 2025

Advancing forensic science: could a single cell prevent a wrongful conviction?

Last month key experts and stakeholders, including from the Earlham Institute, gathered at the House of Lords to share insight into their research and advocate for urgent action to save the forensic science sector.
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.
06 March 2024

Nanosurgical tool could be key to cancer breakthrough

A groundbreaking nanosurgical tool - about 500 times thinner than a human hair - could be transformative for cancer research and give insights into treatment resistance that no other technology has been able to do, according to a new study.
22 January 2024

Identifying criminals from a single cell

New advances in single cell DNA profiling could make it possible to identify individuals from even the smallest traces.
08 November 2019

Earlham Institute takes part in ambitious 'Tree of Knowledge' to map the genomes of all life in UK

Earlham Institute (EI) has been awarded over 700k from the Wellcome Trust for the Darwin Tree of Life Project, aiming to produce a complete genomic UK biota as part of the wider Earth Biogenome Project (EBP).