The University of Sheffield Institute for Sustainable Food has identified a way to commercialise ‘priming chemicals’ that can be used as a crop protection technology to boost the immune system of plants.
The chemicals increase the resistance of plants and enable a faster and stronger defence reaction against pests and diseases. This alternative crop protection strategy offers long-term immune protection for plants, unlike more popular pesticides.
University of Sheffield spinout company, Rinri Therapeutics, has raised a total of £10 million from investors and the UK Future Fund to advance its novel stem cell therapy to restore hearing loss. The biotechnology company Read more…
The University of Manchester has been named the world’s number one university in the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings, released today (Wednesday, 21 April). The University topped the table of more than 1,200 universities Read more…
A new, more sustainable way to make zinc oxide – a key ingredient in many high end health and beauty products such as sunscreens – has been developed by researchers from the University of Sheffield Read more…