Chris Bavin heads to America to discover how our greens can be grown without sunlight.

The Quadram Institute is the name of the new centre for food and health research to be located at the heart of the Norwich Research Park, one of Europe’s largest single-site concentrations of research in food, health and environmental sciences. Building of a new £81.6M facility to house the Quadram Institute begins this month, with an anticipated opening in 2018.

New technology is revolutionising modern farming, but this brave new world of robot farms and hi-tech sensors could have consequences for rural livelihoods

When a child is born, the exposure to the vast range of germs, bugs and biological signals to both parents makes enormous immunity changes, say scientists in Cambridge and Leuven.

Nine projects totalling more than £7M have been awarded by BBSRC, the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs), and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) as part of an integrated programme of research on bovine tuberculosis (TB).

Researchers have made an advance in the fight against a deadly virus that affects pigs.

Scientists in Norfolk may have discovered a new way to prevent infection in humans and plants without triggering multi-drug resistance in bacteria.

The study, carried out by researchers at the University of Bath, looked at a possible link between breakfast, body weight and health and builds on previous research as part of the three-year BBSRC-funded 'Bath Breakfast Project'. For example, if weight loss is the key there is little to suggest that just having breakfast or skipping it will matter.