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Dr Matt Johnson

Dr Matt Johnson honoured with prestigious award for biochemistry

The Biochemical Society’s awards recognise scientists who have made a big impact on the scientific community and society at large through their work.
A nuclear transfer being carried out on several embryonic stem cells for cloning

Researchers sheds light on the regenerative capacity of skeletal muscle stem cells

This discovery helps us to understand how niches dynamically remodel to maintain lifelong capacity to repair tissues and organs.
A combine harvester in a crop field

Farming crops with rocks to reduce CO2 and improve global food security

Unlike other carbon removal strategies enhanced rock weathering doesn’t compete for land used to grow food or increase the demand for freshwater
Wheat in a field

Scientists identify factors which drive the evolution of herbicide resistance

New findings could have an important impact on medicine as well as agriculture.
Dr Claire Turner

Researcher wins five-year Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Henry Dale Fellowship

Dr Claire Turner, research fellow in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology and the Florey Institute has been awarded the Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Henry Dale Fellowship.