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Dr Joe Gallagher (left ) & Dr Mike Morris (right)

Dr Joe Gallagher, Dr Mike Morris and Dr Ana Winters attended the final Plants to Products (P2P) Showcase held on 7th-8th November 2018 at The Birmingham Science Museum, highlighting the research undertaken by P2P members on the...

Josie Parker and Claire Price showed off the power of yeast as part of the Family Weekend at this year's Swansea Science Festival at the Swansea National Waterfront Museum. Taking place on 3rd-4th November, visitors of all ages were treated to some fun demonstrations of yeast...

Professor Diane Kelly was an invited speaker at the latest NPRONET conference which took place on 29th-30th October 2018 in Manchester. Professor Kelly delivered a presentation on P450 biodiversity in natural product biotechnology.

The cytochrome P450 gene/enzyme system is central...

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Wales, Lord Nick Bourne, visited the BEACON facility recently during a two-day trip across mid-Wales for GreenGB Week, in which the work of institutions championing the clean growth agenda was being celebrated.  As part of a visit to IBERS,...

Low Carbon Manager, Judith Thornton, has been busy testing plant-based insulation materials at IBERS, Aberystwyth University. Here she reflects on her findings to date.

Last month the BEACON facility in Aberystwyth saw a flurry of activity in what used to look rather like a shed full...

Summer 2018 saw the launch of a new product by business start-up, Mon Naturals. Eliawen traditional balm has been developed from a 200 year old family recipe used to treat skin conditions, including burns and wounds for generations, using ingredients found locally in North Wales.

Dr Elaine Jensen is at the 15th International Phytotechnology Conference at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia this week. The conference, which runs from 1-5 October 2018 is hosted by the Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment and the International Phytotechnology Society....

Meet Betty! Betty is BEACON's baling machine, and Low Carbon Manager, Judith Thornton's favourite toy of the moment! Betty is used to harvest Miscanthus at IBERS for use in our strawbale building projects. Last summer Judith worked with the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) at...

BEACON LCA analyst, Campbell Skinner, has written a chapter in the newly published book Designing with Natural Materials, entitled ‘Designing with the life cycle in mind’. The book, which is edited by Graham A. Ormondroyd and Angela F. Morris, and published by Taylor & Francis,...

From Left to right: Moiz Abdul (Canada), Laura Amelia George (Canada), Anaïs Giraudeau (Stapledon Memorial Trust student from France), Byensi Jonnathan Ndorelire (Canada)

Three students from the University of Windsor, Canada, joined the BEACON team at IBERS, Aberystwyth...