Membrane Protein Laboratory Group secures further funding
The Franklin’s Protein Production UK team, led by Professor Ray Owens, are collaborators in a successful grant bid which has secured £1.5M of Wellcome funding for the Membrane Protein Laboratory for the next five years. The Membrane Protein Laboratory (MPL),…
Llama antibodies have “significant potential” as potent Covid-19 treatment
A unique type of tiny antibody produced by llamas could provide a new frontline treatment against Covid-19 that can be taken by patients as a simple nasal spray. Research led by scientists at the Rosalind Franklin Institute has shown that…
Rosalind Franklin Institute Building Officially Opens
Harwell Hub Opens The Rosalind Franklin Institute, a new research institute based at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus has officially opened. The building was opened by Professor Lynn Gladden, Chief Executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council,…
Funding awarded to utilise machine learning and citizen science to highlight the extraordinary
Highlighting extraordinary discoveries in our science is a key aim for the Rosalind Franklin Institute’s Artificial Intelligence theme. Our AI team along with colleagues from University of Oxford and UCL have now received funding that will help them just that…
Identifying the mechanism for bacterial capsule assembly
Drug resistant bacteria are an urgent global health problem. One of the ways bacteria evade the human immune response is by shielding themselves inside a shell or capsule. This capsule is composed of sugars called Extracellular Polysaccharides (EPS). Bacteria make…
Major step in our cellular tomography project
The Rosalind Franklin Institute has taken delivery of its first Titan Krios microscope, named Dorothy, and the second generation of the plasma focused ion beam (pFIB), named Franklin, both from Thermo Fisher Scientific. These new technologies will utilise new sample…
New 100 keV CryoEM detector launching with collaborations from STFC, The Franklin and Quantum Detectors
A new generation of detector, based on technology developed by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), is set to transform the field of electron cryo-microscopy. Technology developed by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) in partnership with the Engineering and…
The Franklin hosts Vaccines Minister as part of Harwell HealthTec Cluster anniversary celebrations
The Rosalind Franklin Institute hosted an event attended by Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi, and celebrated the fifth anniversary of The Harwell HealthTec cluster. The panel discussion focused on to build a resilient life science infrastructure and supply chain for the…
Welcoming our summer interns to the Artificial Intelligence theme
We are delighted to welcome our first interns to the Franklin. Today, they will join our Artificial Intelligence and Informatics theme and commence their projects. Their internships are part of the wider Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) intern scheme.…
Unique microscope to film molecules in motion
A unique electron microscope, set to break new ground in biological imaging, will arrive at the Franklin’s new building on the Harwell campus today. The machine is able to image biological samples at up to a million frames a second,…