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Comparative genomics analysis of hundreds of mammals puts human genome in greatest resolution yet, with medical applications from COVID to cancer.

Without healthy soils, we’d have precious little food to eat. But this fundamental resource is being eroded by climate change and overuse of agrichemicals. Under severe threat are the communities of microbes which live in and around crops, helping them to thrive, yet we still know precious little about what our treatment of soils is doing to those microorganisms.

Richard Leggett has recently returned from Iceland, where he’s been helping space scientists get to grips with genome sequencing in extreme environments.

Earlham Institute is at the heart of an international network aiming to preserve, maintain and enrich the biodiversity of this fascinatingly diverse country.