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Horticultural Assistant

moa is recruiting for a Horticultural Assistant

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Associate Scientist - Screening and Automation

moa is recruiting for a Associate Scientist - Screening and Automation

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Associate Scientist – Biology

moa is recruiting for a Associate Scientist – Biology

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Senior Scientist – Biochemist- Plant Biology

moa is recruiting for a Senior Scientist – Biochemist- Plant Biology

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Senior Scientist - CRISPR/Target Validation, Plant Biology

moa is recruiting for a Senior Scientist - CRISPR/Target Validation, Plant Biology

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Principal Scientist (WL6) or Senior Scientist (WL7) depending on experience

moa is recruiting for a Principal Scientist (WL6) or Senior Scientist (WL7) depending on experience

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Principal Scientist (WL6) or Senior Scientist (WL7) depending on experience – Chemistry, Design and Analysis

moa is recruiting for a Principal Scientist (WL6) or Senior Scientist (WL7) depending on experience – Chemistry, Design and Analysis

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Scientist/Senior Scientist – Bioanalytical – Plant Biology

moa is recruiting for a Scientist/Senior Scientist – Bioanalytical – Plant Biology

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moa announces Series B funding

moa raises $44 Million in Series B Financing to Progress a New Generation of Safe and Sustainable Crop Protection Products

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Can herbicide mixtures hold back weed resistance?

Can herbicide mixtures hold back weed resistance?

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Sustainable herbicide discovery strategies

Sustainable herbicide discovery strategies

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moa Opens New R&D Facility

moa opens new R&D Facility

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moa moves to Oxford Science Park

moa has moved to the Bellhouse Building, a prestigious new facility recently opened at the Oxford Science Park.

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moa secures more funding

Two new investors are to fund moa with a further £5 million extension to the company’s Series A funding round.

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moa appoints Virginia Corless as CEO

moa has a new CEO, Dr Virginia Corless, an experienced leader of cutting-edge enterprises that aim to make agriculture more efficient and sustainable. Dr Corless, who has a multi-disciplinary background, trained at the University of Cambridge and MIT. She has had senior roles in organisations concerned with energy, water and food security.

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moa's example of breakthrough innovation

The year 2020, with the global disruption to normal work practices caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, showed the value in having good access to data and the ability to integrate it, build connectivity and forge new knowledge.

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moa's innovative approach

moa has been highlighted as a company with an innovative approach to the discovery process for new crop protection chemistry.

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CAS chemical substance data accelerates herbicide discovery

moa and CAS have announced an agreement to embed chemical substance data from the CAS REGISTRY® directly into moa's R&D workflow.

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More agri-tech investment should be the new normal

moa has been cited as an example of the importance of investment in agri-tech thrown into sharp relief by the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Necessity is the mother of innovation

At last, after more than thirty years, herbicide active ingredients with new modes of action are in the pipeline. The growing problem of resistant weeds has driven more research effort, which is now showing signs of success.

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New modes of action, why so long coming?

Some new herbicide modes of action have been announced recently. So, new modes of action are there to be discovered, although it will be some years before the active ingredients concerned reach the market.

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Resistant blackgrass could soon cost UK £1 billion

Recently published results of a survey of herbicide resistant blackgrass in England have revealed the extent and severity of infestations.

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moa at forefront of Oxford’s innovators

moa has been named as one of the most exciting new companies emerging from the vibrant technology environment in and around the city of Oxford, UK.

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Can weeds be controlled organically?

Modern chemical herbicides have provided effective weed control and raised crop yields. However, they are forbidden in organic food production and organic farmers have to use a variety of alternative methods to control weeds.

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CDD Vault boosts moa's in vivo herbicide discovery

moa is successfully running CDD Vault, a comprehensive informatics platform from San Francisco-based Collaborative Drug Discovery Inc. CDD Vault brings unique advantages to archiving, mining and analysing chemistry and biology research data from moa's in vivo herbicide discovery platforms (GALAXY, TARGET, SELECT).

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How herbicides control weeds: mode of action explained

The fundamental effect herbicides have on plant biochemistry is called the mode of action. After spraying, weeds are controlled by a cascade of biochemical events that generate various symptoms of abnormal growth and development.

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moa announces new funding

moa, the crop protection discovery company, announced today the completion of their £6.3m ($8m) Series A round. This follows the successful launch of the company in 2018 and the development of its unique crop protection discovery platforms.

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moa secures Series A funding

moa has secured funding of £6.3m ($8m) to develop its unique in vivo herbicide discovery platforms GALAXY, TARGET and SELECT.

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Palmer amaranth plagues US row crops

Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) is an aggressive broadleaved weed that has become a severe problem in crops such as cotton, maize and soybeans across the US.

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Innovation Minister meets moa

Baroness Nicola Blackwood, UK Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Innovation, met the moa team when she officially opened the Oxford BioEscalator.

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Blackgrass burden for European cereal farmers

Blackgrass (Alopecurus myosuroides) resistance has plagued cereal growing in Northern Europe since the early 1980s. In the UK it is reckoned that resistant populations exist on virtually all farms where any blackgrass herbicide has been used regularly.

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moa completes management line-up

moa has announced the appointment of David Scott, a highly experienced crop protection industry executive as Head of Business Development. David completes the senior management team at moa.

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moa Scientific Advisory Board appointed

Professor Liam Dolan FRS, Sherardian Professor of Botany at Oxford University and co-founder of moa, is the Chair of the company’s Scientific Advisory Board.

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