We sat down with Crop Transformation's Mark Smedley to chat about his work on genetic crop transformation and Crispr/Cas genome editing, as well as training the next generation and how he became a scientist

Professor Sarah O’Connor took great pleasure in personally penning the nomination letter that has led to her being awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry 2019 Perkin Prize for Organic Chemistry

Dr David Seung's group are working to find out how plants make starch at the molecular level. We caught up with him to ask why he chose to work on starch and what it was like to meet the man his fellowship is named after

Improvements to make crops more nutritious, disease resistant and climate smart are essential to feed a burgeoning world population. Speed breeding could be one answer

Where does human intelligence come from and what advantage did it give to our ancestors? Professor Enrico Coen, provides a new theory

A new rose hybrid has been named after former John Innes botanist Janaki Ammal

Nominative determinism is the hypothesis that people tend to move towards careers which reflect their names. We thought it would be fun to see how many of the staff at John Innes Centre had taken career paths that matched...

Genome Editing and Genetic Modification may sound the same, but they mean slightly different things, which has led to uncertainty, and different interpretations globally, as to how the two should be regulated

PhD student Danny Ward has just returned from a 3-month placement in Kenya as part of his PhD, so we asked him what it was like to head out of the lab