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20th June 2025
New UK study highlights how food structure plays a key role in digestion and health
Researchers from the Quadram Institute in Norwich and Imperial College London showed that foods made with chickpea flour prepared in a way to keep the plant cells intact trigger a much healthier metabolic response during digestion than nutritionally identical foods made with conventional milled...
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4th June 2025
How a gut bacterium uses diet to turn against us
Researchers from the Quadram Institute have found how a common gut microbe, Bilophila wadsworthia, adapts to high-fat diets which may contribute to gut and liver disease.
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2nd June 2025
Future food research at Quadram funded by ARIA
Quadram Institute scientists are working on the first phase of a major new Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) programme to help develop the plants and food of the future. Professor Martin Warren, chief scientific officer at the Quadram Institute, is part of an...
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29th May 2025
Parkinson’s microbiome study reveals alterations linked to environmental chemicals
Researchers analysing the gut microbiomes of Parkinson’s patients have uncovered alterations in its composition and functional capacity that associate with the disease, including pathways involved in the biochemical transformation of solvents and pesticides
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23rd May 2025
Quadram part of new network unlocking gut-immunology-brain links
Dr Aimee Parker from the Quadram Institute is part of the UK Gut-Immunology-Brain Axis Network+, groundbreaking UK research network to uncover how gut health influences the brain, immune system and mental well-being
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22nd May 2025
Quadram Institute honoured to announce The Princess Royal as Patron
The announcement of The Princess Royal’s patronage of the Quadram Institute follows a recent visit to the institute to meet scientists, PhD students, patients, clinical trial volunteers and NHS staff in December 2024. The Quadram Institute opened in 2019 and combines a regional endoscopy...
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29th April 2025
World-class Quadram Institute science features in Parliament
Norwich North MP Alice Macdonald tabled an Early Day Motion (EDM) welcoming the charity Invest in ME Research’s funding of the Ian Gibson Fellowship for postdoctoral research into myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), held by Dr Katharine Seton, and the fellowship’s role in further developing the...
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17th April 2025
New Fellowship explores harnessing gut microbes for healthy ageing
Dr Aimee Parker from the Quadram Institute has been awarded a BBSRC Fellowship to explore how to reverse age-related decline through modifying the gut microbiota
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7th April 2025
New survey finds lower levels of micronutrients in UK milk
A new survey of cows’ milk on sale in UK supermarkets has found that it contains lower levels of vitamin B12, riboflavin and iodine now compared to 1996
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3rd April 2025
How Norfolk helped answer question of COVID-19 persistence
A new study carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic has shown how long the virus persists in the saliva and faeces of infected people
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