BBSRC Business autumn 2011

Headlines
- Global Food Security Champion appointed by public partnership
  The Global Food Security programme (GFS) has appointed a Champion to take on the key role of coordinator and spokesperson for the group. GFS brings together the UK's main public funders of food security related…
- International knowledge hub to link climate change and food security research
  BBSRC-funded researchers are invited to join a virtual knowledge hub in the area of agriculture, food security and climate change. This is under a new European Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) jointly led by BBSRC…
- Biomedical research funders respond to the Review of Research Using Non-Human Primates
  BBSRC, MRC and Wellcome Trust have responded to the independent Review of Research Using Non-Human Primates led by Professor Sir Patrick Bateson FRS…
- Minister opens world class innovation centre
  The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Dr Vince Cable visited the Norwich Research Park (NRP) today (18 July 2011) to open the Norwich Research Park Innovation Centre (NRPIC)…
- 12 projects to tackle most common food poisoning bacteria
  12 projects, bringing together researchers from across disciplines, will study Campylobacter in the food chain, from field to plate. Together, the projects cover a comprehensive range of questions about Campylobacter…
- BBSRC early career fellowships support excellent research with impact
  BBSRC's flagship early-career fellowships scheme is working well to support some of the best newly-established bioscientists in the world, according to a new review. These individuals lead excellent research…
- Where science and business meet
  Getting scientists to work closely with industry is an essential part of transferring technological breakthroughs from laboratory to wider social and economic benefit. To this end, Babraham Bioscience Technologies (BBT)…
- Delivering on investment in agri-food research
  In order to better understand how existing research findings can benefit the agri-food industry, BBSRC and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, working with the Government Office of Science…
- Institute for Animal Health teams up with China
  Animal diseases represent a major economic threat to countries worldwide and threaten global food security. Detecting and controlling infectious agents across national borders requires effective international collaboration…
- UK - US funding for research to help control the spread of disease
  A collaboration between UK and US funding agencies has today announced (13 September 2011) more than £3.5M new funding for research aimed at controlling the transmission of diseases amongst humans, animals…
Features
- Discovered: the ‘missing link’ in biological pigment biosynthesis
  Scientists funded by BBSRC have discovered a new way in which one of life's key pigments is made. The finding, which will see textbooks on the origins of biochemical pathways rewritten, could have important implications…
- Growing plants with friendly fungi
  A hot, dry summer might be an enticing prospect for beach and barbeque lovers, but for food growers the lack of rainfall in spring 2011 and high summer temperatures were predicted to hit harvests and lead…
- Tuning natural antimicrobials to improve their effectiveness at battling superbugs
  Ongoing research at the Institute of Food Research, which is strategically funded by BBSRC, is exploring the use of virus-produced proteins that destroy bacterial cells to combat potentially dangerous microbial infections…
- Scientists discover how antibiotic molecule found in bacteria stops breast cancer
  Scientists have discovered how a molecule that was first discovered in bacteria blocks a protein which causes breast cancer to develop and spread, reveals research published in Nature Chemistry on Sunday…
- Scientists take a step towards developing better vaccines for Bluetongue
  Researchers funded by BBSRC have taken a step towards producing better vaccines against Bluetongue - an important disease of livestock - after successfully assembling the virus outside…
- Parsnip breeder benefits from research partnership
  Crop breeding is a race against time. It can take up to 18 years to bring a new hybrid variety to market using traditional plant breeding techniques and, as Robin Wood, Managing Director of Elsoms Seeds, is well aware…
- Tropical coral could be used to create novel sunscreens for humans or UV-tolerant plants, say scientists
  Researchers at King's College London have discovered how coral produces natural sunscreen compounds to protect itself from damaging UV rays. The scientists believe these compounds could form the basis of a new type…
- Babraham Bioscience Boot Camp inspires a new generation
  The Babraham Institute, which receives strategic funding from BBSRC, ran a Bioscience Bootcamp last week, enlisting twenty eager 6th formers from around the region for a unique learning experience and insight…
- Increasing food and fuel production – thinking outside the box
  New research projects, announced by BBSRC in September, aimed at overcoming some of the fundamental limitations to exploiting photosynthesis could lead to major increases in crop yields for food, bioenergy…

BBSRC Business autumn 2011

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