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26th September 2024
Best R&D award win for LettUs Grow Vitamin B12 biofortification
The winners of the Vertical Farming World Awards 2024 were announced on 25 September at a Gala Dinner during the 5th annual Vertical Farming World Congress in Frankfurt. The awards are organised by global food and drink experts Zenith Global. Celebrating excellence and innovation...
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Researchers in the Quadram Institute are part of a pioneering £4.8m, eight-year programme that will harness artificial intelligence (AI) to investigate the link between nutrition, health inequality and the development of multiple long-term conditions. Led by the University of East Anglia (UEA), and with...
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A Lung on a Chip: new tool to combat coronavirus
Researchers from the Quadram Institute working together with UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) have established a human “lung-on-chip” model that recreates how SARS-CoV-2 infects lung cells, in a contained laboratory environment. The model adapts current technology to allow cells that line the lungs in...
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Quadram scientists inform new UK Innovate report on bacteriophages
Dr Evelien Adriaenssens, bacteriophage research group leader at the Quadram Institute, has helped inform a new UKRI Innovate UK report setting out how the UK could make much better use of bacteriophages or phage-based technologies to help tackle antimicrobial resistance and difficult to treat...
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Quadram Institute’s Heritage Open Day will uncover hidden worlds of health, food and microbes
From 10am to 3pm, the free event will let you discover the hidden worlds of health, food and microbes. The event is part of the nationwide Heritage Open Days, and this year marks the sixtieth anniversary of food research in Norwich. It is also...
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BBSRC Discovery fellowship for Lizbeth Sayavedra
Dr Sayavedra is one of 15 promising researchers around the UK to be awarded BBSRC fellowships and she will be researching nitrogen fixation in the human gut by sulphate-reducing bacteria. “It’s a real honour to be awarded this BBSRC Discovery Fellowship and I’m looking...
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Study in Norwich recruiting volunteers to test health benefits of a pomegranate extract
The TESSA study aims to understand how a pomegranate extract can change the production of compounds associated with increased heart disease risk. The TESSA study team is looking for 40 people whose diets include meat to take part in the research study. The compound...
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AMAST Network launches to battle AMR in the agrifood system
AMAST – the AMR in Agrifood Systems Transdisciplinary Network is to understand and tackle how antimicrobial resistance impacts UK food production from farm to fork.
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SKAN Research Trust and Quadram to Develop Novel Microbial Therapies
SKAN Research Trust, promoted by Indian entrepreneur Mr. Ashok Soota, and UK-based Quadram Institute Bioscience today announced that they will apply the cutting-edge TraDIS-Xpress platform to study the action of traditional medical compounds on bacteria, thereby aiding in the reformulation and development of novel...
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Why we need a 21st Century approach to ensuring food safety
Foodborne illness affected 1 in 10 people globally in 2010, causing over 400,000 deaths. Bacteria have a substantial contribution to this burden. We’ve known for decades what some of the most dangerous bacterial species are and the potentially devastating effects they can have on...
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