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UK & USA scientists collaborate to design crops of the future 22 Aug 2013 | 04:30 am
Three projects to transform future farming while reducing pollution and energy inputs: Engineering synthetic relationships between plants and bacteria The quest to solve the mystery of the lost bacter...
Out of the lab and into the bush: Jack and Henry take on Sierra Leone 20 Aug 2013 | 08:16 pm
The following blog post is written by Jack Dumenil, a PhD student from Prof. Mike Bevan’s laboratory at the John Innes Centre. Earlier in the summer Jack and his colleague Henry Creissen visited Sierr...
Cave Spiders found at John Innes Centre 16 Aug 2013 | 04:04 pm
A colony of rarely seen cave spiders have been found under a manhole cover at the John Innes Centre. The spiders, which have had less than 80 sightings in England over the last 100 years, were discove...
Gamers to join ash dieback fight-back 13 Aug 2013 | 03:59 am
Let scientists keep the lab coat, goggles and pipette. Playing a Facebook game as simple as Candy Crush is enough to take part in active research to help save the ash tree. In December 2012, scientist...
UK Agricultural Technologies Strategy – what it means in the East 22 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
The institutes on the Norwich Research Park welcome new strategy and investment from government to help take research findings all the way from the laboratory to market. A total of £160 million will b...
JIC gives unique experience to young scientists 19 Jul 2013 | 07:00 pm
Fourteen of Norfolk and Suffolk’s brightest young minds recently took part in an event hosted by the John Innes Centre to inspire the next generation of Scientists. The year 10 students, aged just 15,...
Why crop rotation works. New research could help explain the dramatic effect on soil health and yield of crop rotation. 18 Jul 2013 | 03:40 pm
Crop rotation has been used since Roman times to improve plant nutrition and to control the spread of disease. A new study to be published in Nature’s ‘The ISME Journal’ reveals the profound effect it...
Dr Cristobal Uauy awarded a permanent position at the John Innes Centre 12 Jul 2013 | 12:58 pm
Crop geneticist Dr Cristobal Uauy has been awarded a permanent position at the John Innes Centre in Norwich after successfully completing a five-year tenure track. Dr Uauy has been a JIC project leade...
Embargoes – a seed for bringing science to the masses 2 Jul 2013 | 05:33 pm
Zoe Dunford , a panel member at WCSJ2013, concludes that any science journal with a good story and a media strategy can aim for media coverage to rival Nature. We need to start looking for stories bey...
JIC Director welcomes science budget announcement 27 Jun 2013 | 12:02 am
Chancellor George Osborne has today announced that the science budget will remain at the current levels, and resource increased for capital laboratory spend, as part of the government’s spending revie...
