Research has identified critical factors that enable dangerous bacteria to spread disease by surviving on surfaces in hospitals and kitchens

What keeps some plants squatting close to the soil while others - even those closely related - reach high for the skies?

Research into the flower preferences of pollinating moths may have delivered a vital clue to the simple factors needed for the emergence of new species

Investment in national infrastructure at the John Innes Centre and The Sainsbury Laboratory is ‘essential and urgent’ for solving the enormous environmental and societal challenges that we face, says a new independent strategy published this week

Researchers have identified a critical mechanism that allows deadly bacteria to gain resistance to antibiotics

Scientists have developed ground-breaking techniques for visualising the stresses and strains placed on tiny twisted DNA circles

Scientists have used gene-editing advances to achieve a tenfold increase in the production of super-bug targeting formicamycin antibiotics

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