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18 Jan 2017: The organisation has produced a new film describing some of the progress now being made against this devastating disease, including commentary from Michel Goedert, group leader in the LMB’s Neurobiology

30 Nov 2017: year-long collaboration with DNA pioneer Francis Crick and the foundation stones he laid for the new science of molecular biology and genetics.

19 Dec 2017: In addition, Papworth Hospital will be relocating to a brand new building on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus in the coming year and will become neighbours of the LMB. ... highest standards of care, whilst also ensuring the development of new ways of

7 Aug 2017: Ramanujan Hegde talks about protein localization inside cells and quality control of this process. More...

11 Dec 2017: During the month of November, a team of twelve scientists and staff at the LMB came together to raise awareness and money for the men’s health charity,

4 Dec 2017: The musical talents of LMB staff and students were on show during the first LMB Musical Soirée, a fun and informal cabaret-style evening of musical

23 Mar 2017: In their paper published earlier this month, which featured on the front cover of Neuron, the Hasting’s group reported their discovery of an entirely

6 Nov 2017: Scientists have caught a rare view of an unusual kinase poised to phosphorylate its substrate. Led by David Komander, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

19 Jun 2017: 19 June, 2017. Using the pioneering technique of cryo-EM, scientists at AstraZeneca and LMB have made a ground-breaking biological discovery that could help develop new cancer treatments.

18 Dec 2017: A decade after a key structural analysis, scientists have a better understanding of the pharmaceutically important family of receptor proteins - G

11 May 2017: Thus, while the G proteins have been conserved throughout evolution, new organism-specific GPCRs have dynamically evolved to couple to an existing G protein and trigger specific signalling pathways.

3 Jul 2017: Interviews with Katja Roper, Andrew Carter and William Schafer at the LMB Open Day. More...

8 May 2017: Mo Moffateh's image of beautifully repeated segments of Drosophila melanogaster embryonic nervous system, picked as joint third in British Society for

20 Apr 2017: 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

9 Nov 2017: A new study has shown for the first time that these clocks also have a role to play in the healing of wounds, by ensuring that skin cells move quickly to ... The new research, led by John O’Neill’s group in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division in

30 Oct 2017: The LMB’s HR team, supported by colleagues at the LMB, once again took part in the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. For

8 Jun 2017: Dynein is also known to be involved with many diseases, for example viral infections, and a better understanding of how dynein works might lead to new ideas for the treatment of ... The work was funded by the MRC and a Wellcome Trust New Investigator

17 Mar 2017: She presented a poster explaining her research on new ways that cells detect invasion by bacteria, which was judged against dozens of other scientists’ research in the only national competition of

1 Nov 2017: LMB cyclists have ridden to the top of the leader board in this year’s Cycle September Challenge, a fun, free National competition, organised by Love to

19 Jun 2017: The German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, has welcomed EMBO Director Maria Leptin as one of its members. Election to the Leopoldina membership

30 Mar 2017: Brad’s talk ‘Life through a Lens’ showed spectacular new 3D images, made possible due to his development of the Mesolens.

17 Jul 2017: Tau filaments isolated from an Alzheimer’s brain are the latest, high-profile exploit of cryo-electron microscopy. Crafting a technique that has become

4 Jan 2017: Madeline Lancaster, group leader in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, is interviewed by the Journal of Cell Science and describes her impetus to pursue a

9 Jan 2017: This prompted his group to investigate how mis-localised proteins are recognised and degraded, leading to their discovery of new protein quality control pathways.

31 Jul 2017: New work by Julian Sale’s group in the LMB’s PNAC Division, in collaboration with Shankar Balasubramanian’s group in the University of Cambridge Department of Chemistry, has shown that ... This work suggests a new approach for epigenetic therapy,

16 Mar 2017: In order to probe the composition of the enhancesome, Moore (Laurens M.) van Tienen, from Mariann’s group, applied a relatively new technique called BioID proximity labelling, in order to define ... It could open up new avenues for therapeutic

31 Jul 2017: When presented with several new opportunities, Elizabeth followed her heart and is now the Director of Talking Medicines, which enables her to bring together all the skills she has gained. ... Enjoy the challenge of new things, but also enjoy the plateau

24 Oct 2017: Using the nematode as one test system, scientists at CCNR have spent the past several years understanding how a network controls itself—for instance,

21 Aug 2017: In 1984 Jack moved his lab to the Department of Molecular Biology at the Massachusetts General Hospital where his work began to take on a new direction – the study of ribozymes. ... Mechanistic and structural studies have led to new chemical

9 Aug 2017: The LMB recently hosted eighteen students from the London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF) for a morning of activities, talks and tours. The

28 Jun 2017: We were so pleased to be able to share our research into asthma and parasites, and explain to people how our exploration of the immune system can help to develop new ... their structure solved, and found out how this new technique is revolutionising

30 Jan 2017: Professor Thomas Südhof will give the 2017 Milstein Lecture on Thursday 9th February 2017 at 4pm in the LMB’s Max Perutz Lecture Theatre. The lecture,

6 Oct 2017: Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson were awarded the prize on 4 October for their work in developing electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM),

31 Jul 2017: When given to mice, Sephin1 prevents two protein misfolding diseases. New work by the group has now uncovered the mechanism underlying this inhibition, opening up the possibility to target other holophosphatases ... Finally, swapping the N- and

4 May 2017: 4 May, 2017. Conversation with Venki Ramakrishnan: “We’re at the threshold of a new age of structural biology, where these things that everybody thought were too difficult and would take

4 Oct 2017: 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

20 Sep 2017: A new picture, developed by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), illustrates how the jigsaw pieces fit together. ... new insights into prevention.

19 Dec 2017: An estimated 3 percent of the population have receptors of this type that are so genetically different that they are predisposed to altered, ineffective or adverse responses to medicine, a new

7 Jul 2017: Abnormal deposits that build up in the brain during Alzheimer's have been pictured in unprecedented detail in research led by Sjors Scheres and Michel

5 May 2017: It seeks to promote excellence in science, electing up to 52 new Fellows and up to 10 new Foreign Members each year who have made substantial contributions to the improvement of ... This work has led to the discovery of a new immune cell, called a nuocyte

19 Jun 2017: British genome pioneer Sir John Sulston has been elevated to the Companion of Honour in the Queen’s birthday list.  Only 65 people, including the

13 Jul 2017: Simon Bullock discusses his research into intracellular trafficking of RNA, and talks about the importance of science outreach in inspiring the next

30 Oct 2017: New work by Sean’s group has now revealed the missing link that connects endosome-to-Golgi transport vesicles to the golgin tethers.

14 Dec 2017: Since it began in 2004, funds raised by the ACT Breast Cancer Appeal have been used to provide new specialist technologies to aid and expedite diagnosis and treatment in the Cambridge

13 Mar 2017: Julian Gough is interviewed by the Huffington Post and discusses SUPERFAMILY, his database of structural and functional annotations for proteins and

28 Mar 2017: Professor Jonathan Hodgkin has been awarded the prestigious Edward Novitski prize for 2017 by the Genetics Society of America, in recognition of his

30 Nov 2017: The Basser Center for BRCA at Penn’s Abramson Cancer Centre has announced that Ashok Venkitaraman is the recipient of its fifth annual Basser Global Prize

1 Jun 2017: Study by Madeline Lancaster and collaborators at IMBA is one of the first attempts to combine organoids with bioengineering. More...

14 Dec 2017: Published on. 14 December, 2017. An innovative new study from the University of Surrey and John O’Neill’s group from the LMB’s Cell Biology Division has uncovered the secrets

6 Oct 2017: The Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to three scientists, Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and the LMB's Richard Henderson, for developing a