What is metabolomics?
If you’re a scientist, rather than looking at a single chemical that is interesting, why not look at all the chemicals that make up a plant at once? That’s metabolomics
Read the storyIf you’re a scientist, rather than looking at a single chemical that is interesting, why not look at all the chemicals that make up a plant at once? That’s metabolomics
Read the storyBioimaging is a platform technology that is based around microscopy. Here at the John Innes Centre we offer a mixture of light microscopy which uses light for imaging, and electron microscopy which use beams of electrons instead of light
Read the storyWe sat down with Dr Matthew Hartley, head of our Informatics team, to talk about his team, their work and their position straddling the borderline between science and computing
Read the storyMicrobial science may look at the microscopic, but the breadth of microbial research being done here at the John Innes Centre is massive, so here’s an A-Z covering some of it
Read the storyWith plant research stretching from the genetic to the gigantic, we thought it would be worth creating an A-Z of some of the key pieces of work being done here
Read the storyWhere there are plants, there are insects. Our Entomology Department houses a large-range of insects and conducts insect-related research with an overarching aim to help tackle the issue of global food production
Read the storyIn 1985 our History of Genetics Library gained a new book; a duplicate copy of the first edition of William Bateson’s ‘Mendel’s Principles of Heredity: A Defence’, three decades on, we’d like to take this treasure down from the shelves and open it up to a wider audience, explaining why it is so special, and to invite readers to examine the pages for themselves
Read the storyThe short answer is that plants look green to us, because red light is the most useful wavelength for them. The longer answer lies in the details of photosynthesis, the electromagnetic spectrum, energy and “special pairs” of chlorophyll molecules in each plant cell
Read the storyLast week we gave you the perspective of one of our most recent Group Leaders. This week, we have one of our more experienced; Professor Robert Sablowski on what it takes to be a Group Leader at a world-leading plant and microbial research institute
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