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21 Feb 2020: Freedom of Information (FoI) Act, Environmental Information Regulations and Data Protection Act 2018 The Freedom of Information Act 2000 and Environmental

27 May 2020: Science Museum blog: The development of COVID-19 treatments, tests, drugs and vaccines will be accelerated by molecular understanding of the COVID-19

13 Feb 2020: These new structures also reveal the presence of additional molecules in a cavity within the filament. ... patients. Understanding how and why tau assembles into different disease-specific structures will also be beneficial for the development of new

2 Dec 2020: Design of new, improved drugs with fewer side-effects requires a fuller understanding of their structures.

14 Aug 2020: Rachel introduced the new handling methods in the room she worked in to begin with. ... The next challenge was to encourage the rest of the facility to adopt the new way of working.

12 Jun 2020: Search this website. Marta Shahbazi wins 2019 3Rs prize for applying new in vitro models to study early embryo development. ... Marta Shahbazi wins 2019 3Rs prize for applying new in vitro models to study early embryo development.

17 Feb 2020: New study, led by Pablo Alcón and Shabih Shakeel in Lori Passmore’s group, in collaboration with KJ Patel in the PNAC Division, uncovers a unique molecular “clamp and pin” mechanism that activates the D2l complex, which then recruits enzymes

8 Oct 2020: to create membraneless organelles within cells that allow selective orthogonal protein translation, meaning that non-canonical amino acids can be used to introduce new functionalities into proteins made in that part

12 Jun 2020: To study the development and function of the human ChP, including how CSF is made, Madeline’s group developed a new organoid model of this tissue. ... reduce the number of new drugs that fail in phase 1 clinical trials.

8 Dec 2020: Hayley Sharpe, a former PhD student with Sean Munro’s group in the Cell Biology Division, is interviewed by the Journal of Cell Science about her career

11 Feb 2020: Published on. 11 February, 2020. This news story in Nature maps the revolutionary technique’s eventful journey in the structural biology field since 2012-13.

21 Aug 2020: To provide a comprehensive analysis of all possible STR permutations, Pierre, working with Guillaume Guilbaud also from Julian’s group, developed a new high-throughput assay that allows measurement of DNA

3 Jul 2020: This month’s RNA Society Spotlight has a feature on Kelly Nguyen, a Group Leader in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division. Kelly describes the

25 Jun 2020: Search this website. Researchers in Vienna, including LMB PhD student Max Kellner, develop a new “quick and easy” COVID-19 test. ... Researchers in Vienna, including LMB PhD student Max Kellner, develop a new “quick and easy” COVID-19 test.

21 Feb 2020: One of the world's leading research institutes, our scientists are working to advance understanding of biological processes at the molecular level - providing the knowledge needed to solve key problems in human health. Search this website. LMB Band

6 Jul 2020: I would find it very boring and unproductive if I was so competitive that I felt I had to restrict my lab from talking about new data at meetings.”. ... There’s a new group leaders’ group that meets monthly for lunch and presentations, and the

22 Dec 2020: Fred Chapman switches the LMB Christmas lights on. LMB Director, Jan Löwe, commented: “Thank you to all at the LMB who made these events happen and came up with new ways ... all sometime in the New Year.

27 Nov 2020: Mitochondrial ribosomes are different from those in the cytoplasm of human cells and little is known about their quality control. Venki Ramakrishnan’s group has discovered a novel pathway to rescue stalled mitoribosomes and determined structures

12 Oct 2020: Ampersand by Sam Shendi. If you walk past the main entrance to the LMB, you’ll see we have a bold new sculpture standing proudly on the plinth outside the reception. ... Julian Gough, a Group Leader in the Structural Studies Division and one member of

3 Sep 2020: From modest beginnings Sydney became an extraordinarily influential and accomplished molecular biologist. His critical knowledge of, and insights into,

29 Apr 2020: The 51 new Fellows, 10 Foreign Members and one Honorary Fellow have been selected for their outstanding contributions to scientific understanding. ... With discoveries ranging from the first planets outside our solar system, to the creation of the

28 Aug 2020: Kelly Nguyen, group leader in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, has been chosen to receive a Suffrage Science award along with ten fellow women scientists and science communicators who work in the life sciences.

17 Dec 2020: Claudia Bonfio, a MSCA Fellow in the PNAC Division, has won the 2020 Dream Chemistry Award for her dream project proposal, “Unlocking primitive chemical messages”.

27 Oct 2020: for the radiation-induced specimen movement that has plagued the field for decades, with the design and creation of a new all-gold grid design that completely eliminates movement. ... With the help of new hardware and software, he led work to achieve

14 Apr 2020: Throughout March, 28 MRC-funded scientists, including three from the LMB, took part in the Medical Research Zone of I’m a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here

12 Aug 2020: Do it at least once. Each time I took part I gained a new perspective on my work and a better understanding of why some school students are put off by

19 May 2020: without her family; after school, she then left the country entirely to attend the brand new Jacobs University Bremen as one of its first undergraduates. ... After Bremen, Patrycja moved to Cambridge to do a PhD with Margaret (Scottie) Robinson at the

28 Sep 2020: The LMB Director, Jan Löwe, recently ran an internal video competition in which staff and students could submit ideas for new films about life and science at the LMB. ... Michel: “The most important benefit to emerge from this new work is the

20 Feb 2020: John was born and raised in New York City. He obtained his B.A., M.S. ... and Ph.D. from New York University. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Bruce Stillman’s laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor from 1984–1990, where he began working on

1 Dec 2020: LMB Alumnus Tanmay Bharat is among 30 life science researchers within their first four years as group leaders to become EMBO Young Investigators. He joins

4 Aug 2020: Lipid membranes surround our cells and form the boundaries around compartments within them. Roger Williams’ group has now shown how membrane characteristics can tune the activities of protein complexes with important roles in autophagy and

7 Jul 2020: New members are elected annually, by the existing membership, in recognition of their contribution to scientific excellence. ... I am really excited about the new opportunities this will open for exciting interactions with outstanding scientists across

21 Jan 2020: Elaine is currently the Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at the Rockefeller University, New York, USA. ... We use skin as a model to understand how the microenvironment impacts the stem cells and their behavior in

8 Jul 2020: To identify new treatments, scientists need a better understanding of the role played by different parts of the immune system in this disease. ... An improved understanding of the immune system in the gut and how to rebalance the

23 Jan 2020: Aaron Klug made outstanding contributions to the development of structural molecular biology. An early interest in viruses prompted him to think deeply

21 Feb 2020: eduroam for visitors to the LMB The LMB offers eduroam using the SSID of eduroam using EAP-TLS with no IPv6 support. Visitors should have already

23 Mar 2020: Led by Freda Chapman at the LMB, our staff raised £695 for Marie Curie, a registered charitable organisation, which provides care and support to people with terminal illnesses and their families.

5 Nov 2020: The importance of our brain is reflected in the measures evolved to protect it, including the skull and meninges. However, its immune defence has been less well understood. Menna Clatworthy’s group has now identified immune cells derived from the

26 Oct 2020: Ruth Lehmann, a former postdoctoral visitor with Michael Wilcox and Peter Lawrence in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, has been awarded the 2021 Vilcek

18 Aug 2020: John Briggs’ group, in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, has led two new studies of the spike (S) protein that protrudes from the virus surface.

22 Sep 2020: Julian Gough has been named the Cambridge Enterprise Academic Entrepreneur of the Year for his work with Mogrify.

9 Sep 2020: To do this, Julia infected mammalian cells with influenza A virus, leading to production of new viruses. ... Influenza causes very large numbers of cases of severe disease and death every year and new flu strains can cause global pandemics.

4 Aug 2020: I was thrilled to receive the news and extremely honoured that our work has been recognised in this way.”.

6 Mar 2020: Correlative light and electron microscopy is a relatively new technique, and especially when combined with electron cryo-tomography, what you can see is spectacular: “It’s like watching wildlife channels”, Wanda

12 Nov 2020: BBC FUTURE article looking back at origin of life research breakthroughs, including key research by John Sutherland that utilised UV light to form the

16 Oct 2020: They found that the virus is able to infect and produce new virus inside ChP epithelial cells, but neurons and glia were not susceptible to infection. ... With the excellent support of my supervisor, Madeline Lancaster, and the expertise of Leo James’s

14 May 2020: Julian Gough and his group are crowdsourcing raw genomic data for a phenotype prediction study…

22 Sep 2020: This month’s RNA Society Spotlight features Jailson Brito Querido, a postdoctoral researcher in Venki Ramakrishnan’s group. Jailson describes how he

7 Jul 2020: Our daily cycle is controlled by a central clock known as the SCN, but it has been unclear how the network of cells that make up the SCN generate the properties that make it a strong clock. Michael Hastings’ group has identified a signalling axis

13 Aug 2020: Hayley Sharpe, a former PhD student with Sean Munro’s group in the Cell Biology Division, is one of four researchers to be awarded a 2020 Lister Institute