Vaccines for ash trees and gene-edited butterflies among UK projects to get £30m funding
The swallowtail butterfly will be gene-edited by researchers at the University of Exeter. Photograph: Allan Drewitt/Natural England/PAView image in fullscreenThe swallowtail butterfly will be gene-edited by researchers at the University of Exeter. Photograph: Nick Upton/AlamyThe world’s natural environments are changing so rapidly owing to the climate crisis and human pressures that many species can no longer adapt quickly enough, said Wurm, a professor of evolutionary genomics at Queen Mary University, London.
- ▪The swallowtail butterfly will be gene-edited by researchers at the University of Exeter.
- ▪Photograph: Allan Drewitt/Natural England/PAView image in fullscreenThe swallowtail butterfly will be gene-edited by researchers at the University of Exeter.
- ▪Photograph: Nick Upton/AlamyThe world’s natural environments are changing so rapidly owing to the climate crisis and human pressures that many species can no longer adapt quickly enough, said Wurm, a professor of evolutionary genomics at Qu
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The swallowtail butterfly will be gene-edited by researchers at the University of Exeter. Photograph: Allan Drewitt/Natural England/PAView image in fullscreenThe swallowtail butterfly will be gene-edited by researchers at the University of Exeter. Photograph: Allan Drewitt/Natural England/PAConservationVaccines for ash trees and gene-edited butterflies among UK projects to get £30m fundingExclusive: Research and invention agency hopes to harness ‘powers of biotechnology’ for purpose of conservationMatthew PonsfordMon 21 Sep 2026 06.00 EDTLast modified on Mon 21 Sep 2026 06.08 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleVaccines for ash trees, skin treatments for newts and gene-edited swallowtail butterflies are among 14 tax-funded projects from the UK’s “invention agency” aiming to accelerate…
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