Scientists at the John Innes Centre have identified a unique mechanism that the soil dwelling bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens uses to effectively exploit nutrients in the root environment

John Innes Centre scientists are among an international team who have discovered a new class of compounds that target bacteria in a unique way

A new antibiotic, produced by bacteria found on a species of African ant, is very potent against antibiotic-resistant ‘superbugs’ like MRSA according to scientists

John Innes Centre scientists have made a breakthrough in understanding how valuable anti-cancer compounds are produced in the Madagascar Periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus)

Norwich Research Park scientists have won a prestigious international award for a breakthrough that could help the fight against antibiotic resistance

A researcher from Norwich is part of a consortium that has been awarded $1.5 million to develop safer polio vaccines, using a new technique developed at the John Innes Centre. The fight against polio has been one of the great success stories of modern medicine, with the disease already eliminated in much of the world....

The UK government has awarded £93,000 to Professor George Lomonossoff of the John Innes Centre, Professor Janet Daly of Nottingham University and Professor Luis Ferreira at Sao Paulo University, Brazil to develop an effective diagnostic test to detect Zika virus infection in humans

Scientists at the John Innes Centre have discovered a new target in plants for the development of new herbicides for use by farmers and gardeners

Scientists at the John Innes Centre and the University of East Anglia have made an exciting discovery that could provide a new way to prevent bacterial infections in both humans and plants without triggering multi-drug resistance in bacteria