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Engineered plants produce sex perfume to trick pests and replace pesticides

Tobacco plants have been engineered to manufacture an alluring perfume of insect sex pheromones, which could be used to confuse would-be pests looking for love and reduce the need for harmful pesticides.

16 December 2019

Diagnosing infections earlier in preterm babies with real time genomic analysis

Scientists at the Norwich Research Park pioneer microbiome profiling method to speed up ID of infections and more effective treatments in preterm babies.

10 December 2019

Gut feeling: a network approach towards understanding IBD

Scientists at the Earlham Institute establish a pipeline to explore the causes of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

26 November 2019

Discovering hidden plant medicines on your doorstep

Scientists at Earlham Institute are delving into the genetics of UK wildflowers to find the medicines that we never knew were right on our doorstep.

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