MEDIA
Media coverage of our research.
PLANT BIOACTIVES – December 2019
- Press release: Discovering hidden plant medicines on your doorstep
- BBC Radio 4 (Farming Today): Anna Hill visits the Earlham Institute in Norwich where scientists are gene mapping wildflowers to find out which genes govern the creation of molecules with medicinal potential.
GLOBAL BIOFOUNDRY ALLIANCE – May 2019
- Press release: A new network of the world’s leading Biofoundries has been launched to drive forward synthetic biology research and industry
- World Economic Forum:These ‘biofoundries’ use DNA to make natural products we need
- PLoS Blogs:Are biofoundries the solution to synbio democratization?
GENOME EDITING & AGRICULTURE 2019
- UK Parliament: Science & Technology Committee (report)
SUSPHIRE – Sustainable bioproduction of Pheromones for Insect Pest Control in Agriculture … a.k.a ‘Sexy Plant’ – 2018-19
- Press release: Pheromone power – bringing ‘SexyPlant’ back to defy crop pests
- The Guardian:‘Sexy plants’ on track to replace harmful pesticides to protect crops
- The Telegraph: ‘The global race to harness the smell of insect sex in a bid to end the need for pesticides’
- Agronews: ‘Sexy plants’ on track to replace harmful pesticides to protect crops
- BBC Radio 4 (Farming Today): Anna Hill has been to the Earlham Institute in Norwich to find out how insect pheromones are being grown in plants in greenhouses which will then be used to distract the plant-munching insects away
- Edie.net: Sunken data centres and ‘sexy’ plants: the best green innovations of the week
- Food and Farming Futures:Sex attracts: can plant pheromones control crop pests?
- IFL Science: Scientists Are Developing ‘Sexy Plants’ To Protect Crops From Insects
OPEN MTA:
- Press release: A new easy-to-use legal tool for open exchange of biomaterials is launched today
- Editorial (Synthetic Biology): OpenMTA, a paradigm shift in exchanging biological material
- PLoS Blogs: Open science has roots in the synthetic biology community, but we can do better
- Eureka Alert: Opening the way for global innovation in biotechnology
- PR Newswire: A new, easy-to-use legal tool for open exchange of biological materials is launched