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6 Jan 2017: Search this website. A chain of events. A chain of events.

16 Oct 2017: The main theme of the Festival is truth and many of the events focus on issues around post-truth and fake news, why it has come to prominence and how it ... Fake news goes hand-in-hand with propaganda and one of the Festival's events explores the

2 Apr 2017:   Cathy YearsleyBranch Secretarycy232@cam.ac.uk  Ivan Williams Branch Chairilw21@cam.ac.uk Jayne GreenVice Chairjg34@medschl.cam.ac.uk   Jamie BrittainH&S Officerjamie@jbrittain.co.uk Fabio LahrStewardferl3@cam.ac.uk    

20 Feb 2017: We just visited the Department of Chemistry to catch up on their work and talk about commercialisation of research outputs.

26 May 2017: Kiyoshi Nagai’s group capture important state of cellular machine responsible for making humans more complex than worms. More...

19 Jan 2017: 2016 wasn't just a great year for Cambridge Enterprise (CE); it was also the culmination of a great first decade.

4 Dec 2017: The campaign for your pay rise continues Last week’s Budget was an opportunity to bring an end to pay misery for public sector workers. Instead, the government refused to act.

28 Jul 2017: LMB staff shared their artistic flair during the annual LMB Art Show, with exhibits including hand-made jewellery, paintings, photographs, cross stitch

4 Dec 2017: TUC national demonstration: A new deal for working people The TUC has called a national demonstration on Saturday 12 May in London.  The demonstration will form part of the TUC Great Jobs Agenda campaign, which sets out the key demands of the

5 May 2017: Do you have an idea you're passionate about, something you'd like to get into peoples' hands? If the answer is yes, now is the time to act.

16 Oct 2017: Super cool microscopy wins the 2017 Nobel prize in chemistry: includes interview with LMB's Richard Henderson. More...

20 Dec 2017: Interested in what we do? Check out our Annual Review 2017!

20 Oct 2017: A new approach to targeting key cancer-linked proteins, thought to be ‘undruggable’, has been discovered through an alliance between industry and academia

30 Aug 2017: An international team of scientists, including Lalita Ramakrishnan's group in the University of Cambridge Molecular Immunity Unit, based at the LMB, have

20 Apr 2017: The LMB won the National Cycling Challenge for the 200-499 employees category in 2016, with the team cycling 9,969 miles in the month of September! The

11 Oct 2017: Search site. Conservation Research Institute. Karen Wong. PhD candidate. Thesis title: Understanding the links between the Natural Environment and local perceptions of Human Well-being and Environmental Justice in San Felipe, Yucatán, México. My

14 Aug 2017: Search site. Cambridge Systems at Scale (CamSaS). Cambridge Systems at Scale (CamSaS). Hadoop, Spark, PowerGraph,. memcached, nginx,. Linux / BSD OS. Commodity network and servers. The Musketeer workflow manager runs workflows across multiple

21 Dec 2017: They have trained over 30 LMB volunteers to deliver the activity, a number of whom have gone on to help at other events and develop their own engagement ideas.

17 Nov 2017: Madeline Lancaster, cell biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, has developed a technique allowing her to create mini brains

7 Aug 2017: Ramanujan Hegde talks about protein localization inside cells and quality control of this process. More...

7 Dec 2017: John Finch, a superb crystallographer and later electron microscopist, who joined the LMB when it was founded in 1962, died on Tuesday 5th December, after

27 Oct 2017: Genes are encoded in DNA and need to be copied into an intermediate mRNA molecule that contains the instructions to allow synthesis of protein. Almost

9 Nov 2017: A new study led by John O’Neill and Ned Hoyle shows how bodyclocks in skin cells influence wound healing. More...

11 Dec 2017: During the month of November, a team of twelve scientists and staff at the LMB came together to raise awareness and money for the men’s health charity,

23 Mar 2017: In their paper published earlier this month, which featured on the front cover of Neuron, the Hasting’s group reported their discovery of an entirely

18 Dec 2017: A decade after a key structural analysis, scientists have a better understanding of the pharmaceutically important family of receptor proteins - G

6 Nov 2017: Scientists have caught a rare view of an unusual kinase poised to phosphorylate its substrate. Led by David Komander, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

7 Jul 2017: Neural networks, circuits of neurons, are emerging as the fundamental computational unit of the brain and it is becoming progressively clearer that neural

4 Dec 2017: generated for future events.

3 Jul 2017: Interviews with Katja Roper, Andrew Carter and William Schafer at the LMB Open Day. More...

13 Dec 2017: John O’Neill, group leader in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, has helped develop a new display about body clocks for the London Science Museum’s Who Am

16 Jun 2017: Sjors Scheres, a Group Leader in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, has been elected as a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation

11 Apr 2017: Late stage investors bring a lot to the table besides money. But should they be disproportionately protected at the expense of early stage investors?

9 May 2017: Are you a University of Cambridge academic considering taking on work as a consultant? We've created a free, online course just for you.

8 May 2017: Mo Moffateh's image of beautifully repeated segments of Drosophila melanogaster embryonic nervous system, picked as joint third in British Society for

27 Oct 2017: Fire On discovering a fire: • Sound the alarm;• Call the Fire Service by dialling (9)999 (be prepared to give them the address of the building);• Summon help and if possible (without taking personal risk and only if trained to do so) attack

30 Nov 2017: Sydney Brenner, one of the 20th Century’s greatest biologists and joint winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine, talks to biologist and

18 Jan 2017: Cambridge Neuroscience, of which the LMB is a part, plays a key role in coordinating dementia research across the large and diverse community of

3 Feb 2017: Mitochondria are organelles within eukaryotic cells that likely evolved from an ancient bacterium that was engulfed by a primordial eukaryote. Within

4 Aug 2017: The cells in our body contain numerous molecular machines that carry out nearly all biological processes essential for life. These machines are built from

2 May 2017: Could you describe your research with just 150 words and a single picture? It's a daunting challenge but also a vital communication skill.

15 Dec 2017: The human genome encodes approximately 5000 membrane-embedded proteins that carry out many essential processes such as cell-to-cell communication, cell

17 Nov 2017: The spliceosome is a molecular machine that plays an important role in gene expression. It cuts non-coding sequences (introns) out of messenger RNA (mRNA)

11 May 2017: G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) form the largest family of membrane-protein receptors and drug targets. With over 800 different family members in

19 Dec 2017: Over £1200 has been raised by LMB staff for the Papworth Hospital Charity at the annual charity Christmas raffle. The Papworth Hospital Charity was chosen

30 Oct 2017: The LMB’s HR team, supported by colleagues at the LMB, once again took part in the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. For

19 Jun 2017: The German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, has welcomed EMBO Director Maria Leptin as one of its members. Election to the Leopoldina membership

4 Jan 2017: Madeline Lancaster, group leader in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, is interviewed by the Journal of Cell Science and describes her impetus to pursue a

19 Jun 2017: Using the pioneering technique of cryo-EM, scientists at AstraZeneca and LMB have made a ground-breaking biological discovery that could help develop new

17 Jul 2017: Tau filaments isolated from an Alzheimer’s brain are the latest, high-profile exploit of cryo-electron microscopy. Crafting a technique that has become