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23 Nov 2016: group working on new tissue culture methods.

4 Jan 2016: Interview with Mariann Bienz on the mechanisms behind the signalling pathways that switch on gene transcription and how their dysfunction can ultimately

24 Mar 2016: Former LMB PhD student Steven Brenner has been named a fellow by a prestigious computational biology association for his groundbreaking research in

8 Dec 2016: The Haverhill Echo celebrates local resident Richard Pannell's MRC Lifetime Achievement CEO Award. Richard, who was nominated by his current supervisor,

23 May 2016: EMBO elects new members annually on the basis of scientific excellence and outstanding research contributions.

26 May 2016: This move would lead to him becoming a pioneer in the new field of molecular biology, co-founding a world-class research laboratory and developing a technique to unlock the structures

15 Jan 2016: The LMB's annual charity Christmas raffle took place in December 2015. Staff at the LMB raised a total of £1372.85 for Cancer Research UK. This year's

27 Jun 2016: Nicola Smyllie, postdoc in LMB's Neurobiology Division, will be talking about “Body clocks: rhythm of life” in Cambridge Market Square on 2nd July 12-3pm

28 Oct 2016: The M.A.C. visited the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology to find out about an exciting collaborative performance between the institute's scientists and

29 Jun 2016: Come and learn from Danielle, postdoc in LMB's Neurobiology Division, about “Decoding the fly brain” on 2nd July 2016 12-3pm in Cambridge Market Square.

13 Jul 2016: Hayley spoke about her decision to do a postdoc in industry in order to pursue a new scientific area and to keep her career options open. ... She encouraged young researchers to be persistent when applying for new positions and highlighted the advantages

15 Apr 2016: Target of Rapamycin (TOR) is a protein kinase that is essential in maintaining cellular homeostasis. In mammalian cells the enzyme occurs as two large

19 Feb 2016: Former LMB PhD student, Beth Thompson, now works as a Senior Policy Advisor at the Wellcome Trust, focusing on the regulation of research. Beth led

16 Aug 2016: A team of researchers, led by Leo James, has discovered a key feature used by the HIV virus to infect healthy cells without giving itself away and

26 Aug 2016: Over the past 3 years the LMB has, as part of a Government initiative to provide three million new apprenticeships by 2020, supported two MRC apprentices in the Mechanical and Electronics

23 Jun 2016: Research by Manu Hegde’s lab in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division has found a new protein quality control pathway. ... More generally, a mechanistic understanding of the cell’s protein quality control pathways might eventually lead to new therapeutic

28 Apr 2016: It enables scientists to understand and control the function of proteins in cells with unparalleled precision and to produce new proteins.

4 Jan 2016: Recent advances in electron cryo-microscopy are enabling researchers to solve protein structures at near-atomic resolutions, expanding the biological

11 Aug 2016: 11 August, 2016. During eukaryotic cell division (mitosis) the cell’s chromosomes are duplicated and then equally separated into two new daughter cells.

2 Sep 2016: Yoshinori obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at The Rockefeller University in New York working on E.

6 Dec 2016: The LMB and Cambridge Fire and Rescue Service recently held a joint training exercise, involving six teams from across the region, a silver command unit

17 Oct 2016: Bonnie’s work also reveals a potential for the development of new classes of broad-spectrum antibiotics.

7 Jun 2016: The ribosome is a complex biological machine that plays a central role in all living things and one that, according to Venki Ramakrishnan, could provide

18 May 2016: Tony Hunter will give the delayed John Kendrew Lecture 2015 on Wednesday 25th May 2016 at 15.00 in the LMB’s Max Perutz Lecture Theatre. The title of the

10 Jun 2016: The Pew Charitable Trusts have named 22 exceptional early-career scientists as Pew scholars in the biomedical sciences, including Lauren Parker Jackson

28 Jul 2016: Cell survival depends on adaptive signalling pathways to ensure that the supply of vital components matches the fluctuating needs of the cell. The

15 Jul 2016: Professor Terry Rabbitts has been awarded the inaugural Clotten Foundation Prize 2015 for discoveries on human antibody genes leading to therapeutic

14 Apr 2016: Magnesium - a nutrient found in many foods - helps control how cells keep their own form of time to cope with the natural environmental cycle of day and

21 Oct 2016: LMB group leader, John O’Neill, has been elected into the 2016 EMBO Young Investigator Programme. This prestigious programme recognises some of Europe’s

1 Dec 2016: Richard Henderson, group leader at the LMB, has been awarded the Kaj Linderstrøm Lang Prize at Carlsberg’s ‘Science to Business’ Forum in recognition of

29 Feb 2016: An article about modern work spaces featuring the LMB: "It is elegantly fit for purpose, and the purpose, says its director, Sir Hugh Pelham, is "doing

30 Sep 2016: The discovery has led to a new mechanistic model of Wnt signal transduction, in which Wnt-induced clustering of Dishevelled in clathrin-coated pits triggers DEP domain swapping and consequently signalosome

11 Jan 2016: LMB neuroscientist Madeline Lancaster generates living models of brains from a few stem cells. In her lab, she takes small samples of stem cells and grows

11 Aug 2016: This discovery presents the opportunity to re-evaluate existing treatments for HIV to improve their efficacy as well as a new drug target. ... Understanding how RTIs transit the pores opens new possibilities for improving their delivery.

8 Sep 2016: Jonathan Karn, LMB 1976-2002, Postdoctoral staff and group leader, Cell Biology and PNAC Professor Jonathan Karn has been awarded the 2016 Drexel Prize in

23 May 2016: The new structures provide important insights into the biological function of the assemblies and, by catalysing the subsequent development of new diagnostic or therapeutic tools, should help to improve the health

29 Jun 2016: The LMB has continued its collaboration with the University Technical College Cambridge (UTCC), with a series of visits, talks and a challenge project to

9 Feb 2016: Adrian Bird will give the 2016 Francis Crick Lecture on Tuesday 16th February 2016 at 11.30am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre at the LMB. The lecture,

26 Jan 2016: A study finds worms that can't feel are better smellers - and the phenomenon is reversible. The collaborative study by Ithai Rabinowitch, Fred Hutchinson

10 Jun 2016: This article is no longer available from the source website: Cambridge News 10 June 2016.

29 Feb 2016: The paper also describes how the cerebral organoids can be used to model human microcephaly, a disorder recently in the news because of its association with the Zika virus outbreak. ... The development of the ‘cerebral organoids’ has significant

24 Nov 2016: M. Madan Babu, a Group Leader in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, will deliver the annual Francis Crick Lecture at the Royal Society on 7th December

14 Apr 2016: These daily magnesium oscillations also affect the circadian rhythm of when ‘clock genes’ are turned on and off, and therefore seem to be a new component of the cell’s biological

25 May 2016: to new antigens.

1 Jul 2016: Circadian clocks are found across all higher species, controlling daily rhythms of behaviour and physiology. They are thought to “tick” by producing and

16 Nov 2016: infections, which can be fatal for cystic fibrosis patients, can be transferred from patient to patient, and how this new insight has impacted the design of the cystic fibrosis clinic in ... the new Papworth Hospital.

4 Apr 2016: Madeline Lancaster has recently won the annual NC3Rs 3Rs Prize for her work on the creation of brain organoids that mimic the developing human cerebrum.

16 Mar 2016: Join the LMB's Greg Jefferis for his talk: "Sex, food and smell" at the University Technical College Cambridge, Sunday 20 March: 12:45 - 1:45pm, to learn

14 Mar 2016: Join the LMB's John O'Neill for his talk: "Circadian rhythms: everything you always wanted to know about jetlag (but were too tired to ask)" at the

19 Aug 2016: Cancer is an incredibly complex disease and data-intensive bioinformatics approaches can help interpret the molecular mechanism for why certain mutations cause disease, and possibly uncover the first steps of new