BBSRC Business Autumn 2012
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Headlines
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BBSRC Annual Report and Accounts 2011-2012 published
The BBSRC Annual Report and Accounts for 2011-2012 have been officially published. Following their laying before Parliament on 16 July 2012, the Annual Report and Accounts (from 1 April 2011 to 31 March 2012)…
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BBSRC announces appointment of new Director of Science
BBSRC has announced the appointment of Professor Melanie Welham as Director of Science. Prof Welham, currently Professor of Molecular Signalling at the University of Bath, will take up the role on 1 October 2012…
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Food prices and waste are hot topics of public survey
Research conducted for the Global Food Security Programme, which is led by BBSRC, has shown that many people believe that: 'food security is not an issue that affects me rather it's more a problem for people in developing countries'…
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Introducing The Pirbright Institute
The Institute for Animal Health has been renamed The Pirbright Institute today (04 October). This marks a new phase in the 100 year history of the organisation, which is a world leading centre for surveillance and research in virus…
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Bioscience to battle global hunger
A high-level Global Nutrition Event marked the closing of the Olympics and called on the world to improve malnutrition in the world's poorest countries. BBSRC's Chief Executive, Professor Douglas Kell, joined representatives…
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Scientists confirm Schmallenberg still circulating
Researchers at the Royal Veterinary College, in collaboration with colleagues at the Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright, have confirmed that Schmallenberg virus is still circulating in the UK as the current midge season…
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$12M UK-US collaboration to rethink fertilisers for farming
UK and US researchers are being invited to participate in an 'Ideas Lab' that will radically rethink current approaches of producing crops in order to reduce reliance on nitrogen fertilisers…
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Agri-Food Course is 'Training Scheme of the Year'
A postgraduate course being provided by the Agri-Food Advanced Training Partnership (ATP) has been honoured at an industry award ceremony in London. The Harper Adams University College Postgraduate Certificate in Meat Business…
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Bioprocessing researchers go back to school
Biopharmaceuticals are medicines made up of relatively large and complex molecules which mimic the structure of compounds found naturally within our bodies. Over one third of drugs currently under development by pharmaceutical…
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Fellowships boost for food safety
BBSRC and the Food Standards Agency (FSA) are uniting to fund two early-career fellowships in food safety. The fellowships are being made available in addition to BBSRC's annual David Phillips awards and aim to enable…
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$3 million earmarked for Pirbright to coordinate world FMD reference labs
The world reference laboratory for foot and mouth disease (FMD) at Pirbright has been acknowledged by the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN) and OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health) as the centre…
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Silver success for top UK students
Four of the UK's most gifted sixth form students competed against some of the very best young biologists from around the world at the 23rd International Biology Olympiad, Singapore last week…
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Report highlights impacts of Rural Economy and Land Use programme
A new report published today has found that the Rural Economy and Land Use programme has successfully generated a significant number and a diversified range of types of impacts and impacts-in-progress. It concluded that Relu…
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BBSRC Annual Report and Accounts 2011-2012 published
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Features
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Stem cell-powered implant set to revolutionise orthopaedic surgery
Scientists working to harness the regenerative power of stem cells to improve orthopaedic implant surgery. BBSRC-funded scientists at the University of Glagow are collaborating with surgeons at Glasgow's Southern General Hospital…
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Biology by design – how synthetic biology could revolutionise everything from medicines to energy
In a series of articles we will be highlighting the work of some of the leading synthetic biology researchers in the UK. Here we profile Professor Dek Woolfson of the University of Bristol, Professor Jamie Davies of…
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Biology by design part two – how synthetic biology could revolutionise everything from medicines to energy
In a series of articles we are highlighting the work of some of the leading synthetic biology researchers in the UK. Here we profile Professor Polly Roy of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Professor Martin Warren…
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Sequencing technology helps reveal what plant genomes really encode
Scientists from the James Hutton Institute and the University of Dundee have teamed up with researchers in the USA to use a new technique to sequence the genes of the plant Arabidopsis. This approach, which allows researchers to…
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Midge genome: Reinforcing the war against viruses
Researchers at the Institute for Animal Health (IAH) have been awarded £680K by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), which also awards strategic funding to IAH, to sequence and study the genome…
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Research unravels nerve-wiring process
Research published in The Journal of Neuroscience has unravelled key mechanisms that underpin the development of our nervous system. The BBSRC-funded researchers from Manchester University have provided detailed…
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Viruses’ tricks for hijacking bacteria could inspire new antibiotics
Researchers at Imperial College London have published the first detailed description of how a small molecule produced by a virus enables it to hijack bacteria's cellular equipment. The findings, published in Molecular Cell…
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Breakthrough in understanding tumour growth
Scientists at the Babraham Institute, working with collaborators at AstraZeneca, have made a breakthrough in understanding how a particular signalling pathway can promote aberrant cell growth and pinpointed a mutation that…
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Rothamsted and BBSRC launch ''20:20 Wheat ®''
Plans to help increase potential wheat yields in the UK to 20 tonnes per hectare within the next 20 years have been launched by Rothamsted Research scientists and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)…
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10–240 million migrant moths will reach the UK this spring
Scientists at Rothamsted Research, working with UK scientific colleagues at the Universities of Exeter, Greenwich, York and Oxford, the Lund University in Sweden and the Met Office, combined data from entomological radars and…
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Stem cell-powered implant set to revolutionise orthopaedic surgery