A pioneering collaborative project between University of Kent researchers and Wye Hops alongside National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB), the British Hop Association, The Hop Plant Company and LGC genomics has been awarded … Read more
Category: research
£14m for Kent-led project to advance recycling of rare metals
Kent bioscientist Professor Martin Warren is set to lead a national consortia which aims to use biology to recover and recycle rare earth elements after securing funding … Read more
Mind the gap: engaging with the black community on stem cell donation
On Monday 4 December the new All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Ethnicity Transplantation and Transfusion published a report stating that minority ethnic and mixed heritage … Read more
Kent research to support seaweed project in Zanzibar
University researchers are helping county Kent-based seaweed technology business Nutri-San develop new techniques to transform seaweed extracts into a plant-based thickening agent for use in the food … Read more
Friend or foe? Study reveals the evolution of controversial human gut microbe
Blastocystis is one of the most common microbes in the human gut, but whether it is harmful or helpful is still a matter of controversy. Blastocystis … Read more
Kent Talk – Curious or helpful? Motivating science in the modern world
Scientists are motivated by many different and sometimes conflicting notions – they want to understand, explore, explain, help, cure diseases, improve lives, solve problems, invent, … Read more
University of Kent team develop ground-breaking bio-technology to revolutionise health and energy
Bioscientists from the University of Kent have made a landmark research breakthrough in synthetic biology that could help support the NHS and UK healthcare industry … Read more
Biosciences receives BBSRC grant towards identifying cancer treatment
Professor Martin Michaelis (School of Biosciences) has recently won award funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) This project continues an existing collaboration … Read more
Ground-breaking discovery made in fight against incurable cancers
Researchers from the Medway School of Pharmacy (MSOP) – a partnership between the universities of Kent and Greenwich – in collaboration with colleagues from Inselspital (University Hospital of … Read more
Transmission of Strep A disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic
Kent-led research has shown that the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the transmission patterns of a broad range of infectious diseases including group A streptococcus (GAS) … Read more