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26 Jul 2016: This has provided important mechanistic insights into RNA-based splicing catalysis. It has consolidated nearly three decades of biochemistry and genetics on the spliceosome and indicates new research directions to be

19 Dec 2016: Medical Daily includes work by the LMB's Leo James's group and University College London on improving antiviral drugs as one of its HIV research

6 Oct 2016: A custom-built objective lens called the Mesolens allows relatively large biological specimens to be imaged with cellular resolution. It was developed by

19 Dec 2016: area. The planting of the trees will provide a unique linear orchard that marks the routes between the new developments south of the city and the city centre.

10 Mar 2016: Venki talks about his life and work for BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific. More...

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 the basis of scientific excellence and outstanding research contributions.

6 Jul 2016: The LMB’s Danielle Mersch and Nicola Smyllie along with other leading female scientists from the region took to their soapboxes on Saturday 2nd July in

29 Jan 2016: How to combine biology, chemistry and synthetic biology to add synthetic amino acids to a protein, and why creativity matters. Profile of LMB group

7 Jul 2016: Published on. 7 July, 2016. LMB Group Leader, Greg Jefferis, has been elected as one of 15 new FENS Kavli Scholars.

25 Oct 2016: Profile of LMB group leader Katja Röper and her work on how cytoskeletal behaviour controls tissue morphogenesis. More...

1 Dec 2016: The LMB has continued its collaboration with the University Technical College Cambridge (UTCC), with students visiting as part of their microscopy

13 Apr 2016: Heptares Therapeutics, an LMB spin-out company, announces a deal with Allergan for development of novel treatments for neurological disorders, including

17 Nov 2016: Sabine Petry, LMB 2003-2007, PhD Student, Structural Studies Originally from Germany, Sabine received her Diploma (MSc) from Goethe University and

6 Dec 2016: Bicycle is pioneering a new class of drugs based on its bicyclic peptide platform, and will be working with AZ to spot and develop new treatments for respiratory, cardiovascular and metabolic

30 Jun 2016: Published on. 30 June, 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 oocytes”, on

22 Nov 2016: Monoclonal antibodies now account for a third of all new treatments and provide therapy for a diverse array of diseases from breast cancer to arthritis.

3 May 2016: Christos Savva, Electron Microscopy Facility scientist at the LMB, talks about why understanding structures of important proteins could be the key to

7 Nov 2016: It gave me a new perspective to our work in the lab and I’m looking forward to next time!”.

19 Oct 2016: For the second year running, the LMB’s HR team, supported by colleagues across the LMB, showed off their baking skills for the Macmillan Cancer Support

19 Dec 2016: Over £1500 has been raised by LMB staff for The British Heart Foundation (BHF) at the annual charity Christmas raffle. The BHF was chosen in memory of

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: The new structure provides the first high resolution view of an open and functioning protein conducting channel. ... By comparing the new Sec61 structure to these previous structures, they have predicted a two-step mechanism for how the channel might be

29 Apr 2016: Each year, the Royal Society elects up to 52 new Fellows and up to ten new Foreign Members, recognising those scientists who have made substantial contributions to the improvement of knowledge

6 Sep 2016: Published on. 6 September, 2016. The ability of scientists to create changes in gene sequences has improved dramatically in recent years with the emergence of a new method, dubbed ‘CRISPR’. ... This new approach was inspired by work in rice, which

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

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

16 Aug 2016: 16 August, 2016. Collaborative research between Leo James’s group and colleagues at UCL has uncovered key components of HIV, which they believe could lead to new approaches for drugs to

11 Mar 2016: In addition, AMPA receptors are drug targets and the new structure offers development to novel protein interfaces of the receptor.

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

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

23 Nov 2016: group working on new tissue culture methods.

4 Jan 2016: Interview with Mariann Bienz on the mechanisms behind the signalling pathways that switch on gene transcription and how their dysfunction can ultimately

24 Mar 2016: Former LMB PhD student Steven Brenner has been named a fellow by a prestigious computational biology association for his groundbreaking research in

8 Dec 2016: The Haverhill Echo celebrates local resident Richard Pannell's MRC Lifetime Achievement CEO Award. Richard, who was nominated by his current supervisor,

23 May 2016: EMBO elects new members annually on the basis of scientific excellence and outstanding research contributions.

26 May 2016: This move would lead to him becoming a pioneer in the new field of molecular biology, co-founding a world-class research laboratory and developing a technique to unlock the structures

15 Jan 2016: The LMB's annual charity Christmas raffle took place in December 2015. Staff at the LMB raised a total of £1372.85 for Cancer Research UK. This year's

27 Jun 2016: Nicola Smyllie, postdoc in LMB's Neurobiology Division, will be talking about “Body clocks: rhythm of life” in Cambridge Market Square on 2nd July 12-3pm

28 Oct 2016: The M.A.C. visited the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology to find out about an exciting collaborative performance between the institute's scientists and

29 Jun 2016: Come and learn from Danielle, postdoc in LMB's Neurobiology Division, about “Decoding the fly brain” on 2nd July 2016 12-3pm in Cambridge Market Square.

13 Jul 2016: Hayley spoke about her decision to do a postdoc in industry in order to pursue a new scientific area and to keep her career options open. ... She encouraged young researchers to be persistent when applying for new positions and highlighted the advantages

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

19 Feb 2016: Former LMB PhD student, Beth Thompson, now works as a Senior Policy Advisor at the Wellcome Trust, focusing on the regulation of research. Beth led

16 Aug 2016: A team of researchers, led by Leo James, has discovered a key feature used by the HIV virus to infect healthy cells without giving itself away and

26 Aug 2016: Over the past 3 years the LMB has, as part of a Government initiative to provide three million new apprenticeships by 2020, supported two MRC apprentices in the Mechanical and Electronics

23 Jun 2016: Research by Manu Hegde’s lab in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division has found a new protein quality control pathway. ... More generally, a mechanistic understanding of the cell’s protein quality control pathways might eventually lead to new therapeutic

28 Apr 2016: It enables scientists to understand and control the function of proteins in cells with unparalleled precision and to produce new proteins.

4 Jan 2016: Recent advances in electron cryo-microscopy are enabling researchers to solve protein structures at near-atomic resolutions, expanding the biological

11 Aug 2016: 11 August, 2016. During eukaryotic cell division (mitosis) the cell’s chromosomes are duplicated and then equally separated into two new daughter cells.

2 Sep 2016: Yoshinori obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at The Rockefeller University in New York working on E.