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

Scientists at the John Innes Centre and the University of Leeds have used extremely high-resolution microscopy to confirm and refine the structure of a tiny plant virus, and a related non-infectious virus-like particle

Scientists at the John Innes Centre have discovered that Euglena gracilis, the single cell algae which inhabits most garden ponds, has a whole host of new, unclassified genes which can make new forms of carbohydrates and natural products