Newly-discovered diversity in the wheat genome could offer vital new opportunities to improve and ‘climate-proof’ one of the world’s most important staple crops.

The Earlham Institute has expanded its spatial transcriptomic capabilities with the addition of the Vizgen MERSCOPE UltraTM to its cutting-edge Technology Platforms, thanks to funding from the BBSRC ALERT scheme.

Scientists sequencing two free-living amoebae related to the deadly “brain-eating amoeba” Naegleria fowleri discovered they both contain bacteria linked to Legionnaires’ disease.

Researchers are combining the latest science in climate forecasting and soil science to understand how land use management could enable soil carbon storage.

ELIXIR-UK has been awarded a five-year grant from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

A new project - funded by a £8.5M grant from the UK Government’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) - will leverage advances in engineering biology to establish synthetic plant chromosome (synPAC) technologies.

Regulations to enable Precision Breeding in plants has been signed into law by the government.

The question of where DNA replication starts in the human genome has finally been addressed, with the conclusion it is largely random.

New insights into large mobile fungal genome elements, called Starships, have revealed more about how they jump between fungal species and influence their evolution.

The Earlham Institute has appointed two new Career Development Fellows, supporting their journey towards establishing independent research groups.