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Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller, a former Director General of the UK Security Service, MI5, and the first female Chair of the Wellcome Trust, has been appointed as an honorary advisor to the John Innes Centre’s Governing Council. Eliza rose to public prominence as the Director General of MI5, in October 2002 and retired from the role...
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Dr Yiliang Ding and her group have been awarded European funding to take forward their field-leading research into the structure of RNA
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Our Open Friday Seminar on 10th February at 11:30am is The Scott Moncrieff Lecture: Serendipity in symbiotic nitrogen fixation with Professor Eva Kondorosi, Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Location: Merton Auditorium and Zoom (No registration is required to attend in person. If you are attending via Zoom, please register: https://jic.link/FS-Kondorosi) Speaker: Eva Kondorosi, Biological Research...
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Innovative research has uncovered the secret of how plants make limonoids, a family of valuable organic chemicals which include bee-friendly insecticides and have potential as anti-cancer drugs
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A potent plant toxin with a unique way of killing harmful bacteria has emerged as one of the strongest new antibiotic candidates in decades
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The evolutionary secrets that enable the medicinal herb known as barbed skullcap to produce cancer fighting compounds have been unlocked by a collaboration of UK and Chinese researchers
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It is predicted that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) will be responsible for 10 million global deaths annually by 2050, more deaths than cancer, at a cost of $100 trillion to the world economy. The scale of the problem has led some to describe AMR as the “slow motion pandemic”, or framed as one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse
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A new Innovation Hub for research into biofortification to increase nutrient levels in crops and food is being launched on the Norwich Research Park
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Reduced height, or semi-dwarf, wheat varieties with improved drought resilience may soon be grown in fields across the globe following an exciting scientific discovery
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