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7 Mar 2022: Our structures. Our methods aim to open up new experimental possibilities in Structural Biology studies. ... By ourselves or through collaborations, we have used our methods to determine new structures.

10 May 2022: Each year the Fellows of the Royal Society elect up to 52 new Fellows, and up to 10 new Foreign Members. ... He has rewritten the near-universal genetic code of natural life to create organisms that use new genetic codes.

19 Jan 2022: Search this website. New research initiative at the University of Cambridge supports a cross-disciplinary approach to better understand life across the Universe. ... New research initiative at the University of Cambridge supports a cross-disciplinary

22 Nov 2022: EMBO welcomes the new Young Investigators with a sense of excitement and pride.

7 Jun 2022: Steve Harrison highlighted how Aaron was continually moving on to different areas of research: “each of the things he [Aaron] moved on to, created both a new field – a platform for

16 Nov 2022: The LMB is proud to announce that we have joined the Technician Commitment as a signatory. The commitment aims to ensure visibility, recognition, career development and sustainability for technicians working in higher education and research, across

6 Oct 2022: Structure of Biological Systems, lead by Max Perutz, to join them in plans for a new laboratory.

9 Nov 2022: After running previously as the Science Image Award, the newly named Microscopes4Schools Competition will continue to offer online ‘Meet the Researcher’ sessions with schools as we expand our reach beyond Cambridge and broaden our judging panel

28 Oct 2022: The LMB is the proud owner of four alpacas, which we have recently inoculated to induce nanobody production to study complex protein structures

24 Nov 2022: Kelly Nguyen, a Group Leader in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, was awarded the 2022 Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators earlier this

13 Oct 2022: Suzanne Cory and Joan Steitz talk to Joan Heath about their memories of LMB in the 1960s, their careers since, and their thoughts on past and present

23 Aug 2022: Vernon Ingram, born in Germany, was a protein chemist who helped advance the field of protein crystallography and made important contributions to the

14 Nov 2022: Bacterial ribosomes are different from those in higher organisms, making them good targets for drugs, so this information is critical in developing new antibiotics to combat infection and disease.

2 Nov 2022: Dr Kathleen Weston Kathleen Weston was a PhD student with Bart Barrell at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology from 1983 to 1986. After postdoctoral

16 Dec 2022: Nina Rzechorzek, a member of the O’Neill group in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, was lead author on a paper in Brain earlier this year. This podcast

24 Oct 2022: He leveraged his engineered enzymes to yield exciting new aptamers with unique ligands. ... This work holds tremendous potential for therapeutic benefit through in vitro evolution of new catalysts and aptamers.

23 Mar 2022: Kiyoshi Nagai was a preeminent researcher at the LMB for over thirty years during which he was a global leader in the field of spliceosome research. His

26 Oct 2022: As with previous symposia, researchers from both academic and industry backgrounds were welcomed for stimulating talks and discussions on how new and emerging technologies could be applied to address challenging questions

29 Jun 2022: new therapeutic strategies. ... an individual, defining the process by which new variants likely arise, and also reporting some of the first data on Pfizer BioNTech vaccine-induced antibody responses against the

18 Nov 2022: able to answer questions in new and innovative ways”.

5 Oct 2022: Morten Meldal shares the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Carolyn R. Bertozzi and K. Barry Sharpless for “the development of click chemistry and

19 Apr 2022: Since moving from LMB to Leeds and Oxford then ICR, he has worked on new technologies for cancer therapy using antibody fragments inside cells and developed novel methods using intracellular antibodies ... He was also part of the the early planning of

17 Jan 2022: The annual LMB charity Christmas raffle, and Craft and Chatter Group sale, has raised £1545.00 for the Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust (ACT).

24 Jun 2022: This new study from Lalita’s group highlights the RET pathway’s role as a major pathogenic mechanism of TB too.

2 Feb 2022: I also hope to lure my new colleagues into using the zebrafish by showing them it’s awesome power.” – Lalita.

5 May 2022: Her group is dedicated to the development of new technologies to map molecules, cells and functional circuits and applying these to better understand signalling in mitochondria and in the mammalian brain. ... Utilising both chemical and biological methods

19 Jan 2022: The Blavatnik Awards are supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation and independently administered by the New York Academy of Sciences.

25 Jan 2022: The LMB recently welcomed George Freeman MP as part of a wider visit to the Cambridge Biomedical Campus to learn how Cambridge is leading innovation in

18 May 2022: The new system has revealed a number of important insights into fundamental aspects of human DNA replication. ... Thus, this new system allows for novel insights specific to the human replisome.

28 Jan 2022: He developed new methods of measuring, scaling and processing X-ray data and along with Bill Longley developed a fine focus rotating anode tube which significantly reduced the number of hours ... This led to the development of a new type of camera which

6 Oct 2022: After more than 10 years, the dideoxy sequencing technique, a brand new approach to sequencing, was developed. ... It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge.

17 Jan 2022: Thomas Steitz was among the foremost of the generation that was responsible for an explosion in our understanding of the structure and function of

25 Oct 2022: Technical staff from three institutes were invited to the event to network and share inspiring career stories.

19 Aug 2022: 19 August, 2022. New UK-based biotechnology company launched to scale and commercialise ground-breaking synthetic biology research of Jason Chin. ... Jason commented, “Over the last 20 years, we have created a cellular factory that we can reliably and

27 Oct 2022: In this lecture, I will describe our recent progress in understanding how the brain participates in the positive and negative control of adult-adult social interactions, providing a new framework to

27 Jun 2022: Magnetic resonance spectroscopy allowed Nina Rzechorzek (member of the O’Neill group, Cell Biology) and collaborators to create a HEATWAVE map, showing

8 Aug 2022: It was also a fantastic way to meet new people.”. Also highlighted was a selection of wood-turned items from Geoff Wilkinson, Head of Domestic Services. ... It’s always a delight to see the work of new and regular exhibitors.

29 Apr 2022: Ruth Lehmann is the 2022 recipient of the Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science, given to women with outstanding research accomplishments and established

30 May 2022: The LMB has agreed to an additional $4 million to be used to facilitate further research partnerships with AstraZeneca, as part of the joint Blue Sky collaboration

22 Nov 2022: Tanmay Bharat is awarded the 2023 Microbiology Society Fleming Prize. His research uses electron tomography to study prokaryotic cell surfaces, playing important roles in prokaryotic physiology, as well in human bacterial infections.

24 Oct 2022: This provides a new paradigm which both protects valuable engineered organisms from natural invaders and safeguards the natural world from engineered genetic material. ... Jerome demonstrated that genes which use the new synthetic code could only be

2 Nov 2022: Paul Sigler (1934 - 2000) Paul Sigler came to the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in 1964 as a Helen Hay Whitney fellow to work with Brian Matthews

5 Jan 2022: In 2014, he attended the LMB Alumni Symposium: Molecular Biology at 50 and Beyond, in the recently opened new LMB building, and recounted his time at the LMB in a

6 Jul 2022: New members are elected annually, by the existing membership, in recognition of their contribution to scientific excellence. ... 19. Menna responded to the news, “I am delighted to be recognised by EMBO.

29 Sep 2022: It is from these necrotic granulomas that the bacteria can transmit best to new individuals thereby maintaining the global burden of TB. ... A new study from Lalita Ramakrishnan, Group Leader in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division and Head of the Molecular

12 Apr 2022: He died in Rockleigh, New Jersey, aged 82, on 5 April 2022, after a long illness.

12 Oct 2022: Take a look behind the scenes of the LMB’s single-shot drone film, Inside the LMB: One take fly through.

13 Jan 2022: Wasi Faruqi joined the LMB in 1969 where he has since remained as an integral contributor to the lab’s Structural Studies Division. In 2021 Wasi’s work on

17 May 2022: Two new papers from Lori Passmore’s group in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division seek to provide some clarity on this issue.

3 May 2022: But what if I add an extra “L” and an extra “R”; how do I parse this new action-emphrase /emthen? ... Clearly the last two points are far from being proven and new experiments could be designed, starting from the current experimental design, in