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‘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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Join us at this unique conference for both primary and secondary school teachers, with hands-on workshops, free resources, and inspirational talks designed to enhance your science teaching. This half day conference is an opportunity to enhance your science offering and learn more about how you can be supported in doing this with a new approach...
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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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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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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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Experimental farm Team Leader retires after 26 years of service to science
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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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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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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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