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18 Dec 2020: Article looking at the varied long-term effects of Covid-19 and the clues that latest research offers into what might be causing all the symptoms –

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

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.

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

16 Nov 2020: Elyse Fischer, a PhD student in David Barford’s group, receives the award for her work on the molecular mechanisms of chromosome segregation during cell division.

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

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

24 Jan 2020: In long feature format, Science Magazine profiles structural biology scientists at the LMB, including Chris Russo and Nobel Prize winner Richard

4 Jun 2020: Sjors Scheres’ and Radu Aricescu’s groups have pushed the boundaries of cryo-EM, allowing the technique to detect individual atoms in a protein for the

5 Feb 2020: Thyroglobulin, the protein precursor to the thyroid hormones T3 and T4, is the only molecule in the human body that is modified by iodine, and the modification directly leads to the formation of the thyroid hormones in the thyroid gland. But the

26 Jun 2020: Sarah Caddy is interviewed about her work on COVID-19 during the pandemic and extending her work with Leo James’ group on how antibodies neutralise

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

28 May 2020: New research from the groups of Michel Goedert and Sjors Scheres has revealed the first structures of α-synuclein filaments from human brain.

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.

4 Dec 2020: This reveals a new mechanism of immune synergy between antibodies and T cells, which are often thought to work quite separately. ... Therefore, this work provides multiple new concepts that could be exploited in the development of treatments for and

29 May 2020: New Members in 2020 include musicians, historians, social scientists, and researchers in the mathematical, physical, and biological sciences.

22 Apr 2020: Hearing and touch depend on the ability of sensory neurons to be activated by a force, such as pressure or vibration from sound, and then pass information on to the brain. William Schafer’s group has identified some of the key proteins that make

18 Dec 2020: Alex Bates, who recently completed his PhD in Greg Jefferis’ group in the Neurobiology Division, was awarded the BNA Postgraduate prize for his work on

1 Sep 2020: illness, offering hope of new therapies for a range of devastating conditions, from Alzheimer’s disease to epilepsy.