As one of the world’s foremost research institutes, the John Innes Centre has today been awarded £77.9m[1],[2] in a series of new strategic programme investments by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). Four new strategic ...
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Tharsini Sivapalan, 26, a PhD student at the Quadram Institute (formerly Institute of Food Research), hailing from Hayes, London, attended Parliament to present her bioscience research to a range of politicians and a panel of expert judges, as part of ...
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DTP student Ana Bermejo Martinez and fellow scientists from the University of East Anglia and Ocean University China have discovered that tiny marine bacteria can synthesise one of the Earth’s most abundant sulfur molecules, which affects atmospheric ...
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DTP student Rebecca Devine has recently been involved in a new publication in Chemical Science which discovered that a new antibiotic from bacteria found on an ant could beat MRSA. A new antibiotic, produced by bacteria found on a species of African ant, ...
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Scientists at the Quadram Institute (formerly Institute of Food Research) have uncovered a new mechanism linking bacteria in the gut to Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Dr Lindsay Hall and colleagues have found that certain bacteria release molecules ...
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The UK’s leading global position in bioscience innovation was further strengthened as the Science Minister officially launched biotech spin out Leaf Systems International Ltd on 23rd January 2017. Jo Johnson, Minister of State for Universities, Science, ...
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Scientists have developed a new improved method for capturing longer DNA fragments, doubling the size that can be analysed for novel genes which provide plants with immunity to disease. RenSeq (1) is a method to sequence Resistance (R) genes that confer ...
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This year The Norwich Research Park DTP had its first PIPS student complete his internship in the US. Tom Eyles spent three months from May to August 2016 as a Research and Development Intern with Genomatica, a leading bioengineering technology company ...
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Jan Bettgenhaeuser, a DTP student based at The Sainsbury Laboratory, has recently been first author on a new paper. Bettgenhaeuser J, Corke FM, Opanowicz M, Green P, Hernández-Pinzón I, Doonan JH, Moscou MJ (2016) Natural variation in Brachypodium links ...
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Freya Varden, a DTP PhD student at the John Innes Centre, was invited to give a keynote speech at an event recently hosted by NERC. On 22nd September, NERC launched a funding initiative to engage the public with contemporary issues in environmental science ...
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Scientists at the John Innes Centre have discovered a key “twist” in a Rubik’s cube-like plant puzzle, which could pave the way to new, or more effective pharmaceuticals. Several members and derivatives of a group of natural plant compounds called ...
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A recently published study has found some evidence that enterohaemorrhagic E.coli (EHEC) may be able to evade or suppress our immune system. EHEC (aka E. coli O157) causes around 1200 cases of food poisoning in the UK every year. Symptoms are serious, ...
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