Could circadian timing help improve crop protection?
Plants can tell the time, but how might that knowledge help improve crop protection and food security?
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Press Release Gene-editing produces tenfold increase in superbug slaying antibiotics
Scientists have used gene-editing advances to achieve a tenfold increase in the production of super-bug targeting formicamycin antibiotics
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Press Release Bacteria can tell the time
Humans have them, so do other animals and plants - now research reveals that non-photosynthetic bacteria too have internal daily clocks that align with the 24-hour cycle of life on Earth
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News Sweet success for sugar beet research bid
A leading John Innes Centre researcher and colleagues have been awarded European funding to develop innovative molecular solutions to combat a damaging sugar beet virus
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News, Press Release A CRISPR picture emerges on European Union GMO directive
A European Court ruling widely interpreted to mean that all gene-edited organisms are GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) may not be as prescriptive as many first assumed
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Blog Studying biomedicine at university during a global pandemic
Continuing our science communication series with UEA students, we asked biomedicine undergraduate Carmen Barber why she chose biomedicine and what university life is like during a global pandemic?
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Blog Alumni stories; Inspiring the next generation – Dr Samantha Fox
We caught up with Dr Sam Fox, former Research Assistant and now Director of the Youth STEMM Award to hear the story of her career
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Blog How do we feed a growing population in a changing climate?
How do we feed a growing population in a changing climate? One solution is to develop resilient crop varieties. But how can we achieve this increased resilience in crops? New John Innes Centre Group Leader Dr Sanu Arora is working on just that, so we asked her what her group will be doing?
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Blog Microbiology masters and me; a student’s perspective
Co-located with us on the Norwich Research Park is the University of East Anglia, so we sought out a new perspective for what attracts students to study science here in Norwich. This week we are joined by third-year integrated masters microbiology student Katie Sutton. We asked her “why microbiology?”, and what studying science at university is really like?
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