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23 May 2016: The sustainability strategy for the David Attenborough Building was developed by BuroHappold Engineering. At the beginning of the project an energy audit and occupant satisfaction survey took place to understand how the building was performing, in

24 May 2016: Two former LMB group leaders have been named as new EMBO members. Jernej and Ian are among 58 new members to join EMBO, who elect new members annually on

1 Jun 2016: VocalIQ’s voice recognition software offers users the ability to speak naturally to their smart devices.

25 Oct 2016: The LMB has continued its winning cycling record by taking first place in its category in the Love to Ride Cambridgeshire event – part of the National

15 Apr 2016: Target of Rapamycin (TOR) is a protein kinase that is essential in maintaining cellular homeostasis. In mammalian cells the enzyme occurs as two large

11 Mar 2016: Information transfer in the nervous system occurs at synapses, where presynaptic signals are interpreted by postsynaptic receptors. Ingo Greger’s group,

18 Mar 2016: 'Synthetic biology' is a scientific approach that seeks to answer fundamental questions in biology by reconstruction and modification of the molecules and

5 Apr 2016: Cambridge Pharmaceutical Cryo-EM Consortium formed by FEI, five pharmaceutical companies, LMB and the University of Cambridge. Sample preparation and data

4 Jan 2016: Rebecca Voorhees and Manu Hegde, from the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, have used electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) to determine how a channel that is

9 Mar 2016: A jewellery heirloom has been passed to Lori Passmore on International Women’s Day to honour her major contribution to science. Lori, from the LMB’s

6 Dec 2016: Bicycle Therapeutics, the Cambridge biotech company, has done a collaboration deal with AstraZeneca which puts it in line for up to $1 billion. Bicycle

20 Jul 2016: Researchers in Greg Jefferis’s group in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division have developed a new online tool to analyse images of neurons. This tool, known as

23 Mar 2016: As part of the Cambridge Science Festival, two of the LMB’s group leaders talked to the public about their research at the University Technical College

13 Dec 2016: Work by MRC funded Gail McConnell and LMB Emeritus, Brad Amos and colleagues at the University of Strathclyde have been selected for Physics World's Top

30 Jun 2016: Melina Schuh, former Group Leader in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, will deliver her Lister Prize lecture, “New insights into aneuploidy in human

23 Nov 2016: Nicola has done all these events entirely at her own initiative, whilst continuing a very active research programme, including producing two first-author papers in 2016.

28 Sep 2016: Our brains are complex organic computers – some believe the most complicated in the Universe. Yet one scientist has managed to create mini brains that

14 Dec 2016: Macropinocytosis, the cellular uptake of fluids from the environment, is employed by a variety of cells and requires the formation of a cup-shaped

1 Mar 2016: We’re working hard to get plugged in to the innovations and ideas coming from AHSS departments to support their commercialisation. Read more here.

29 Apr 2016: Manu Hegde, group leader in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, in recognition of his “seminal