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08 March 2023
People Science
FEATURE | 5 min READ

Artificial realities: copying wild microbial communities in the lab

When we think of the plant microbiota, we tend to think in terms of how they interact with their host. But they also have complex give-and-take relationships with each other.
13 April 2021
Science
FEATURE | 20 min READ

The many faces of the microbiome - our future health

We speak to two of our microbiome experts, Dr Chris Quince and Dr Falk Hildebrand, on the future of microbiome health and how the Earlham Institute is influencing the microbiome science and innovation UK landscape.
21 October 2020
Science
FEATURE | 8 min READ

Healthy soil is important, but what does it look like?

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.