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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.

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

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

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.”.

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

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

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