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Publication of the Strategic Review of Bioimaging in the UK

Thu, 17 May 2018 23:00:00 GMT

The report of a strategic review of bioimaging in the UK is published today and will help stakeholders understand the key priorities within BBSRC’s bioimaging portfolio and will inform BBSRC’s strategy in this area. Imaging is now the dominant form of analysis of molecules, cells, and tissues across the Life Sciences. Imaging of biological samples, or bioimaging, is an area of significant interest for BBSRC as bioimaging technologies cut across all areas of BBSRC’s remit, and operates at all scales.

Radio 4's Today programme to feature researchers from BBSRC Strategically Funded Institute IBERS

Tue, 15 May 2018 23:00:00 GMT

BBC Radio 4’s flagship Today news and current affairs programme will be broadcasting live from Aberystwyth University on Thursday morning 17 May 2018.

Innovator of the Year 2018

Mon, 14 May 2018 23:00:00 GMT

Excitement is building ahead of the 2018 Innovator of the Year awards that take place in London on Wednesday 16 May. Twelve finalists will compete to be named BBSRC Innovator of the Year 2018 at The Mermaid in London. The Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation, Sir Mark Walport will meet the finalists ahead of the presentation of awards.

£40m to create a new interface between bioscience and medicine

Sun, 13 May 2018 23:00:00 GMT

Scientists and clinicians will gain greater understanding of the impact of food on health thanks to a £40M research investment in the new Quadram Institute. Researchers and clinicians are being brought together in the Quadram Institute and will work closely with funding bodies and charities, collaborators and investors to ensure fundamental science benefits patients, consumers and wider society.

UK-Brazil research partnerships to tackle anti-microbial and insect pest resistance in Brazilian agriculture

Tue, 01 May 2018 23:00:00 GMT

10 projects are to be funded by BBSRC and FAPESP through the Newton Fund's Joint Pump-Priming Awards for AMR and Insect Pest Resistance in Livestock and Agriculture. The pump-priming awards bring together researchers across the UK and São-Paulo to tackle core challenges for anti-microbial resistance and resistance of insect pests in the Brazilian agriculture and livestock sectors

Six projects awarded funding to help make agriculture sustainable in Colombia

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 23:00:00 GMT

Six projects have been awarded funding to enhance sustainable agriculture in Colombia. The projects have been awarded funding as part of the Sustainable Tropical Agricultural Systems programme, which aims to ensure reliable and sustainable food provision for Colombia.

Just one more ash dieback spore could push European ash trees to the brink

Sun, 22 Apr 2018 23:00:00 GMT

Europe’s ash dieback epidemic could well have been caused by just one or two mushroom-like fruiting bodies of a fungal pathogen from Asia, according to a comprehensive genome sequencing effort published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. This leaves even the most resistant ash trees at threat from the introduction of just one more spore from East Asia.

The 2018 BBSRC Innovator of the Year finalists revealed

Mon, 16 Apr 2018 23:00:00 GMT

The shortlisted finalists for the 2018 BBSRC Innovator of the Year competition have been announced. Twelve finalists will compete to be named Innovator of the Year 2018 at The Mermaid in London on 16 May 2018.

Engineering a plastic-eating enzyme

Sun, 15 Apr 2018 23:00:00 GMT

Scientists have engineered an enzyme which can digest some of our most commonly polluting plastics, providing a potential solution to one of the world’s biggest environmental problems. The discovery could result in a recycling solution for millions of tonnes of plastic bottles, made of polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, which currently persists for hundreds of years in the environment.

Healthy soil lifts animal weight

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 23:00:00 GMT

Managing soil by well-designed grazing is key to an animal’s growth and wellbeing shows new research linking soil health, pasture value and sustainable production. Individual pastures on livestock farms yield surprisingly dissimilar benefits to a farm’s overall agricultural income, and those differences are most likely attributable to the varying levels of “soil health” provided by its grazing livestock, reveals a study published today.