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4th December 2020
A million new names for bacteria
Researchers are discovering thousands of new bacterial species that live with us, on us and even inside us. Our relationship with them affects our health and that of the planet—but to define that relationship, new species need new names. Scientists at the Quadram Institute...
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30th November 2020
How mycoprotein influences digestion and promotes health effects
Blog by Raffaele Colosimo, PhD student Mycoprotein is a food ingredient used in all the meat replacement products branded as QuornTM. Apart from the lower environmental impact compared to meat, mycoprotein has shown to improve human health in clinical trials. Most of the unprocessed...
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26th November 2020
NNUH joins Covid-19 investigational vaccine clinical trial
Hospital staff, scientists and residents in Norfolk have joined the quest to find an effective Covid-19 vaccine by taking part in a new clinical trial at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. The NHS is playing a leading role in developing a vaccine for...
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23rd November 2020
Genomics helps understand COVID-19 in care homes
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has hit the residents of care homes harder than any other part of the population. We know the oldest people in our society have borne the brunt of deaths from COVID-19 but what can genome sequencing usefully do to help safeguard...
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18th November 2020
Year in Industry student’s experience sets sights on science career
James Lovatt is an undergraduate student from London, studying Biological Sciences at the University of East Anglia. A keen sportsman and actor, who has taken part in professional productions at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as well as many TV shows, James also has a...
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16th November 2020
CLIMB Receives Honours in 2020 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards
The Cloud Infrastructure for Microbial Bioinformatics (CLIMB) project has been recognised in the annual HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards, presented digitally during the virtual 2020 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC20) via HPCwire.com. CLIMB was recognised with the...
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16th November 2020
Quadram Institute gets extra Government funding for the fight against COVID-19
Scientists at the Quadram Institute in Norwich will be using newly announced additional government funding to increase its coronavirus genomic epidemiology work through the COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium. The Department for Health and Social Care’s Testing Innovation Fund has backed the COG-UK consortium...
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1st November 2020
What are the risks and benefits of a plant-based diet?
Blog by Federico Bernuzzi, Year 3 PhD, MSc Usually when people refer to a plant-based diet, the first thing that comes to mind is a vegan diet. Veganism advocates the removal of all animal products in one’s lifestyle, be it in one’s diet, the...
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29th October 2020
A bacterial virus helped the spread of a new Salmonella strain
Researchers at the Quadram Institute have implicated a toxin-carrying virus in the emergence of a new strain of Salmonella in pigs.
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27th October 2020
New John Innes Foundation Fellowship helps research the development of healthier starch
Researchers working to develop crops with healthier, more resistant starch at the Quadram Institute and John Innes Centre are partnering with the John Innes Foundation, who will be funding a two-year collaborative research programme. This two-year Fellowship will support the work of Principle Investigator...
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