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23 Feb 2024: Cryo-EM is rapidly evolving and we are developing new methods to help determine protein structures.

10 Jan 2024: CryoEM at IUCrJ: a new era.

25 Mar 2024: Projects Main applications for October 2024 are now closed. The LMB exceptionally considers applications for research-only MPhil students provided they

16 Feb 2024: Elucidating the molecular details of this pathway was therefore paramount and had the potential to reveal new therapeutic targets for treating cancer.

2 Apr 2024: Search this website. Rising Talent Fellowship. The MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) is proud to launch a new three-year fully funded postdoctoral fellowship for scientists from Black heritage backgrounds. ... This Fellowship is a three-year

21 Jul 2023: Photographs The LMB has an extensive collection of photographs and images, a selection of which can be viewed here by either browsing the collection or

23 Feb 2024: 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. Philipp

12 Mar 2024: The brain works as an integrated whole. Animals interact with the world by combining inputs from their senses of vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch and

21 Jul 2023: Mark S. Bretscher Curriculum Vitae Personal Details Date of Birth: 8 January 1940 Family: Married (to Barbara Pearse); one daughter (Nicola) and one son

23 Feb 2024: Precise chromosome replication is essential for maintaining genome stability, yet the process itself is inherently risky. Duplex DNA must be transiently

5 Mar 2024: Molecular motors have critical roles in the trafficking of organelles, vesicles and macromolecules within the cytoplasm, and aberrant motor function is

23 Feb 2024: Cells are highly compartmentalized into numerous membrane-bound organelles. The membranes that define each organelle contain unique sets of embedded

14 Mar 2024: In an effort to better understand human brain development, we have developed a new model system, called cerebral organoids.

23 Feb 2024: Science News : Scientists have mapped an insect brain in greater detail than ever before. ... Sky News : First map of insect brain signals 'big step forward' in understanding thoughts.

18 Mar 2024: Ultimately, mycobacteria can cause granuloma breakdown by inducing programmed macrophage death, a step that further increases bacterial growth and promotes transmission to new hosts. ... Our findings have been borne out in humans and are informing new

22 Mar 2024: Thus, understanding their cell biology requires re-thinking some of our most basic assumptions (bilayers membranes) and the development of new research tools and methods (high-temperature live cell imaging).

21 Jul 2023: 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. Emeritus.

21 Jul 2023: The LMB moved into a new, modern building in February 2013, on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. ... A new type of immune cell, that can initiate allergic asthma, has been found.

23 Feb 2024: 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. Chris Tate

24 Oct 2023: Joan A. Steitz Postdoc Prize The Max Perutz Fund was set up in June 1980 in honour of the LMB’s founder, Max Perutz, and was established for the promotion

23 Feb 2024: Information transfer in the nervous system occurs at synapses, where presynaptic signals are interpreted by postsynaptic receptors. We study this process

21 Jul 2023: For a list of recent news items please see the LMB News section.

24 Oct 2023: Perutz Student Prize The Perutz Student Prize is awarded annually for outstanding work performed at LMB prior to the award of a Ph.D. Nominees

21 Jul 2023: Current Vacancies Listed below are the vacancies currently being advertised. In addition we welcome speculative applications from postdocs – see Postdoc

24 Oct 2023: Eileen Southgate Prize The Max Perutz Fund was set up in June 1980 in honour of the LMB’s founder, Max Perutz, and was established for the promotion

29 Jan 2024: Dendritic cells (DCs) play a key role in initiation of cytotoxic immune responses against pathogens and tumours. In order to prime the relevant T cells,

23 Feb 2024: Our research is aimed at understanding the mechanisms and regulation of chromosome segregation in mitosis. During the cell cycle, accurate chromosome

21 Jul 2023: The MRC, realising the potential for medical applications of these developments, provided a new building for the unit, and in 1962 the Laboratory of Molecular Biology was opened. ... Since then, the Laboratory has been a prolific source of new ideas,

23 Feb 2024: The ends of linear eukaryotic chromosomes are capped telomeres, an array of long telomeric repeat tracts (nin human) bound by telomeric protein factors.

21 Jul 2023: Since retirement in 2010 he has been working part-time in the University of Strathclyde on new types of microscope, using his ‘Mesolens’ and collaborating in published work on nonlinear optics

21 Jul 2023: In conjunction with Professor Matthew Wood and colleagues at the University of Oxford, we designed a new class of cell-penetrating peptides, called Pip, which showed outstanding cell and in vivo ... The new D-PEP peptides form the basis of founding of a

1 Feb 2024: Design of the new building. In keeping with the original ethos of the LMB, the building has an open plan design with many communal areas to encourage interactions and discussions between ... The LMB has a number of initiatives to help employees save

14 Mar 2024: Andrew Travers started his Ph.D. at the LMB under the tutelage of the late John Smith in 1964. After this he took a couple of years out as a post-doc in

4 Jul 2023: New members are elected annually by the existing membership. At the LMB, Katja investigates the mechanisms that transform epithelial sheets of cells into complex, three-dimensional organs. ... I am grateful to my past and current lab members for helping

7 Sep 2023: Using techniques including mouse genetics, fluorescence imaging and gene expression analysis we discovered group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) as significant new participants in immune regulation through their cytokine secretion (Figure

20 Feb 2024: He subsequently worked in the bioinformatics group at the Babraham Institute (Cambridge, UK), primarily analysing NGS data and developing software./p https://erc.europa.eu/news/erc-2017-starting-grants-results ... matt Wed, 22 May 2019 09:22:40 0000 Lab

21 Jul 2023: 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. Poster 4.

21 Jul 2023: 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. Poster 3.

21 Jul 2023: 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. Poster 2.

21 Jul 2023: 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. Poster 1.

6 Dec 2023: He worked closely with Fred Sanger throughout his time at the LMB, and helped develop new methods for genomic analysis – applying these to increasingly complex models. ... He helped to develop new sequencing techniques and applied these first to tRNA

21 Mar 2024: Coot is under active development. New features are being added. There may be bugs.

4 Apr 2024: Search this website. New 3D embryonic stem cell culture system sheds light on gastrulation mechanism. ... For example, in tumour development, metastasis whereby cancer cells spread to new parts of the body, can be initiated by basal delamination of cells.

10 Jan 2024: Each year, EMBO selects new members from the best researchers in Europe and around the world, and has a membership of more than 1700 leading researchers.

14 Mar 2024: A new century, a new direction, found Rob switching to genomics and cell biology, with highlights being the Dictyosteliumgenome, discovery of the mating type locus and proof that chemotaxing cells are

4 Apr 2024: You will acquire new knowledge through taking part in team discussions, attending seminars, reading research papers and presenting your results to your lab colleagues.

31 Oct 2023: Search this website. A new collection of Royal Society Biographical Memoirs highlights LMB’s scientists . ... A new collection of Royal Society Biographical Memoirs highlights LMB’s scientists . Published on.

25 Jan 2024: Cell Biology Division The Division aims to understand the biological organisation of cells and organisms, and the molecular mechanisms underlying their

11 Aug 2023: This research broke new ground, showing that specific gene mutations could be induced in the C.

11 Dec 2023: They talk about how investigating a mysterious band on a western blot led to a new understanding of the red blood cell’s clockwork mechanism.