Professor Noel Ellis has been awarded a prestigious honour in recognition of his long and distinguished service to the legacy ...

A new exhibition aims to shed light on microscopic worlds to mark 400 years since the term ‘microscope’ was first coined.

A more affordable, lower-risk polio vaccine is on the horizon, research led by the University of Leeds has found.

Currently, IPV is relatively expensive to produce because it requires high levels of bio-containment to minimise the risk of leaks of live poliovirus, which could result in outbreaks. VLPs are ...

Exciting agricultural breakthroughs could reduce fertiliser use and fight crop diseases sustainably, but it's still a few years from reality.

In 2010, Sir David Baulcombe, one of TSL's first senior scientists, was recognised for "pioneering discovery of gene regulation by small inhibitory RNA molecules in plants", and, in 2020, Dame ...

The cover image is a botanical illustration of a Saponaria plant taken from a book in the rare book collection at the John Innes Centre. See Jo et al. This month, Nature Chemical Biology ...

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Seeds can be sown and cuttings taken and placed in a propagator or on a heat mat with a bottom heat of around 18C (65F). Seeds and cuttings can be given a covering of milky white polythene (I use cut ...