CIMMYT visit celebrates strategic scientific partnership
Senior representatives from CIMMYT visited us on 6th January 2025 to discuss current and future collaboration opportunities.
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News New culture project launched to support women in wheat research
‘Empowering the UK wheat community to achieve gender parity’, a progressive culture improvement initiative led by the John Innes Centre (JIC), The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) and Rothamsted Research, has secured funding from the UKRI Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). This 12-month project builds on the success of the Rosalind Franklin Women in Wheat...
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Press Release Evolutionary study reveals the toxic reach of disease-causing bacteria across the Plant Kingdom
The capacity of bacteria to spread disease across the Plant Kingdom may be much more widespread than previously suspected, according to new analysis
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Blog Career Stories: Bridging science and policy – my professional placement journey
Our Strategic Engagement and the Communications teams recently hosted Harshanie Dasanayaka, a Microbes, Microbiomes and Bioinformatics (MMB) programme PhD student funded by the UKRI Medical Research Council (MRC). Harshanie’s professional placement helped her delve deeper into how policy is informed by science, and she shared with us what she had learnt. We caught up with...
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News Breakthrough AI model can translate the language of plant life
A pioneering Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered model able to understand the sequences and structure patterns that make up the genetic “language” of plants, has been launched by a research collaboration
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Blog “I’m a lucky man… it’s a great place to work.”
Experimental farm Team Leader retires after 26 years of service to science
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Press Release Delivery mechanism discovery resolves gene expression puzzle
An international research collaboration has shed new light on the molecular basis of gene expression, the fundamental biological process that underpins how all organisms use their genetic information
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Blog Blueprint for scientific success – great teamwork, a thick skin, and a happy accident
It's good to plan, especially when you are competing for space in a high-impact academic journal read by scientists the world over. But sometimes pure accident plays an influential part in achieving your ambitions: a chance observation that morphs into a major clue that leads to a brand-new view of the world
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News Prospects of antibiotic development raised by “belt and pulley” discovery in bacterial enzyme
An international collaboration has made a breakthrough in our understanding of DNA gyrase, a vital bacterial enzyme and key antibiotic target
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