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06 November 2025

Earlham Institute PhD graduate recognised for excellence in scientific research

A PhD graduate from the Earlham Institute was awarded the John Innes Foundation prize for Excellence in Scientific Research at the John Innes Centre Annual Science Meeting in Norwich.
27 October 2025

New software tool MARTi fast-tracks identification and response to microbial threats.

Scientists at the Earlham Institute introduce MARTi, a powerful new tool for the real-time analysis of nanopore metagenomics.
20 October 2025

New fellowship launched to embed FAIR data across the UK life sciences

BioFAIR - a UKRI-funded federated digital research infrastructure for UK life science researchers - has announced its inaugural cohort of ten fellows.
08 October 2025

Helping the world transition to sustainable agriculture

For the first time, four major multi-national companies - BASF, Bayer, Corteva and Syngenta - visited the Norwich Research Park to discuss the urgent need to develop solutions for sustainable agriculture.
06 October 2025

New wheat diversity discovery could provide an urgently-needed solution to global food security

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.
23 September 2025

New BBSRC funding supports expansion of transformative spatial science

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.
01 September 2025

Single-cell genomics reveals hidden bacterial threats in Amoeba

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