Ben Tolley - June 10, 2025 A Boost for Sustainable Agriculture: The Promise of the US “Plant Biostimulant Act” In a welcome development for sustainable agriculture, United States Representatives Jimmy Panetta ...
Emily Garnett - April 24, 2025 Collecting Birthdays: Unveiling the Secrets of Extreme Human Longevity When 117-year-old, Maria Branyas Morera died in August last year, she was the world’s oldest living ...
Emily Lythell - November 21, 2024 Resistance is futile – how new tech tackles AMR Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) refers to the ability of microorganisms—bacteria, viruses, fungi, ...
Eliot Ward - November 13, 2024 Cambiotics: a novel treatment for PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ PFAS are toxic pollutants causing health problems globally. There is currently no treatment. Now a ...
Isobel Fisher - November 11, 2024 AI designer enzymes During the announcement of the first survey of the entire human genome by the Human Genome Project, ...
Natalie Vaughan - September 9, 2024 BoobyBiome: replicating the breast milk microbiome Breast milk is abundant with essential microbes. Meet the startup mapping the microbiome, to ensure ...
Amelia Jones - August 21, 2024 Editing in situ: synthetic gene editing tools delivered straight to the gut The critical, yet delicate balance of the microbiome in maintaining health and influencing disease ...
Eliot Ward - July 3, 2024 Inside the Asian microbiome library AMILI co-founder Dr Jeremy Lim takes us on a tour of his remarkable lab, where the mysteries of the ...
Eliot Ward - June 14, 2024 How helpful are biological deposits at the EPO? In our article about biological deposits under the Budapest Treaty, we explored the deadlines and ...
Edward Couchman - March 25, 2024 Cancer-killing bacteria: past, present and future While bacteria have frequently made the medical news in recent years due to the urgent problem of ...
Eliot Ward - February 29, 2024 The link between the microbiome and chronic liver disorders Guts UK is the charity for the digestive system. It funds scientific research such as Nicholas ...
Isobel Fisher - February 22, 2024 Colony picking robot expands our knowledge of human gut microbiome The human microbiome is very diverse. A typical gut microbiome can contain hundreds or even ...
Eliot Ward - February 21, 2024 Biological Deposits under the Budapest Treaty (1977): important considerations for filing strategies and public accessibility Biological material, which the EPO understands to be any material containing genetic information ...
Frances Salisbury - February 8, 2024 Yoni Health: the medical secrets of menstrual blood Menstrual effluent contains a wealth of scientific info, including biomarkers for endometriosis, ...
Amelia Jones - February 7, 2024 Fertile Ground: Tapping into the Potential of the Female Microbiome Healthcare systems around the world have historically been designed by men, with “white males” ...
Rebecca Brooks - January 22, 2024 One Health and the role of the microbiome Traditionally, clinical microbiology focused on the role of individual microbes in human and animal ...
Amelia Jones - December 19, 2023 Synthetic probiotics: bacteria that link the gut to the brain Optimising pharmacokinetics of a drug is a vital stage of the development process. Pharmacokinetics ...
Rebecca Brooks - October 6, 2023 Supporting Guts UK and their research into the gut microbiome We’re pleased to announce that we have started a new charity partnership with Guts UK. Guts UK was ...
Eliot Ward - July 14, 2023 The secrets of the oral microbiome More than 700 species of bacteria live in our mouths. The mysteries of this ecosystem are now being ...
Eliot Ward - May 4, 2023 The ball is rolling at the FDA for microbiome therapies The FDA was busy last week! Off the back of the first approval for faecal microbiota transplant ...
Natalie Vaughan - February 23, 2023 Microbiome claims around the world: how to define your microbe? A booming commercial interest in harnessing the human microbiome for therapeutic uses has led to a ...
Eliot Ward - December 1, 2022 Welcome to the market, FMT On Wednesday 30 November 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorised the first ...
Eliot Ward - September 12, 2022 Regulatory challenges for microbiome therapeutics in the EU and beyond – focus on FMT One of the oldest known microbiome-based therapeutics, faecal microbiota transplantation, is again ...
Katie Dale - July 28, 2022 Bugs helping drugs beat cancer – harnessing the microbiome for immunotherapy In recent years the field of cancer immunotherapy has exploded in popularity, and now a new branch ...
Sarah Harvey - May 6, 2022 Replacing the bad with the good – an IP perspective on microbial consortia Our body hosts trillions of microorganisms that are essential to many aspects of human health. This ...
Jo Cripps - June 8, 2021 Need to Know: why your virome holds enormous value Our bodies play host to a complex network of viruses, many of which remain unclassified. Matt ...
Fay Allen - April 19, 2021 What is the cancer microbiome? The “microbiome” is commonly associated with the gut microbiome, but recently the blood microbiome ...
Joseph Newcombe - October 29, 2020 Personalising medicine based on gut reaction No, we are not talking about jumping to conclusions, but the reactions carried out by the gut ...
Eliot Ward - March 25, 2020 Microbiome: Meet your multitude The health and wellbeing of each of us depends upon a number of vast communities of microbes that ...
Camille Terfve - March 18, 2020 Bioinformatics - science's big secret Now deeply woven into the fabric of biological research, bioinformatics has become the secret sauce ...
