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21 December 2021

Affordable genome sequencing for pathogen analysis to help tackle global epidemics

A worldwide consortium of scientists, led by the Earlham Institute and the University of Liverpool in the UK, mark a significant milestone in equipping researchers - particularly those in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) - with cheap and accessible methods for sequencing large collections of bacterial pathogens - at a cost of less than $10USD per genome.
22 November 2021

New HiFi platform increases sequencing power to help decode the genome of all life on earth

The Earlham Institute (EI) has boosted its capability in high-fidelity long-read sequencing with a twin set of the cutting-edge Pacific Biosciences Sequel IIe platforms to support the Earth BioGenome Projects, providing the UK bioscience community with critical technologies for biodiversity genomics.
28 October 2021

Barcoding the Norfolk Broads: discovering local biodiversity as part of project to sequence all Eukaryotic species in the UK

The Earlham Institute (EI) in Norwich has launched a public engagement programme to discover the biodiversity on our doorstep, starting with an area of special ecological interest for nature conservation: the Norfolk Broads.
19 October 2021

Building capacity in DNA sequencing for agricultural biosciences in Africa

Africa is incredibly rich in plant, animal, and human diversity. Uncovering the genetic basis of this diversity could hold the key to improving the productivity of crops and livestock and enhancing human health.
15 September 2021

Pole to Pole: breaking point for ocean’s microbial biodiversity most likely to affect UK

As a result of the climate crisis, global warming is likely to cause abrupt changes to important algal communities because of shifting biodiversity 'breakpoint’ boundaries in the oceans – according to research from the University of East Anglia and the Earlham Institute.
22 January 2021

Investigating new treatment for schizophrenia as first Psychiatry Consortium funded project announced

A partnership between the University of Oxford, Earlham Institute (EI), and global pharmaceutical companies Biogen Inc and Boehringer Ingelheim will investigate a promising new drug target for the treatment of schizophrenia.
07 August 2019

Where are the bees? Tracking down which flowers they pollinate

Earlham Institute researchers develop a new method to rapidly identify sources of bee pollen to understand which flowers are important for bees.