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23 Feb 2024: Our broad goal is to understand how smell turns into behaviour in the fruit fly brain. We currently use a combination of genetic labelling and

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

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. Jan Löwe.

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

23 Feb 2024: Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD), Huntington’s disease (HD) and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

4 Jun 2024: Nigel Unwin became a staff scientist at the LMB in 1968, after obtaining his Ph.D. from Cambridge University. He left the Laboratory in 1980 to become

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

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.

7 Jun 2024: Prior to joining the LMB he founded a company, now situated on the Cambridge Science Park, to apply the Mogrify cell reprogramming technology for the creation of new therapeutics.

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

10 May 2024: The contents of eukaryotic cells are organised and moved around by motor proteins running along the tracks that make up the cytoskeleton (microtubules and

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

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

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

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

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

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.

3 Jun 2024: Pluripotent stem cells have the unique capacity to generate all the cell types of the organism. In the embryo, they undergo concomitant changes in shape

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