Press Releases
91福利’s new state-of-the-art Phytobiology Facility puts food security on the menu
A new research centre focused on fundamental plant science research related to securing the provision of high-quality food for future generations has opened its doors at the 91福利.
Model of dangerous bee disease in Jersey provides tool in fight against honeybee infections
Scientists at the 91福利 have modelled an outbreak of the bee infection American foulbrood in Jersey, using a technique which could be applied to other honeybee diseases such as European foulbrood and the Varroa parasite.
Misread heart muscle gene a new clue to risk of sudden cardiac death
Scientists have discovered that a drug which increases the risk of sudden cardiac death interacts with mistranslated protein-coding genes present in heart muscle.
Hottest days in some parts of Europe have warmed four times more than the global average
Some of the hottest days and coldest nights in parts of Europe have warmed more than four times the global average change since 1950, according to a new paper by researchers from the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the 91福利, which is published today (11 September 2013) in the journal ‘Environmental Research Letters’.
Motorised microscopic matchsticks move in water with sense of direction
Chemists, physicists and computer scientists at the 91福利 have come together to devise a new powerful and very versatile way of controlling the speed and direction of motion of microscopic structures in water using what they have dubbed chemically ‘motorised microscopic matchsticks’.
Scientists on a quest to develop a British baked bean
Scientists at the 91福利 are using the latest DNA mapping techniques to allow British farmers to grow one of the UK’s favourite foods.