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17 Jun 2020: Understanding minute structural differences in (G protein-coupled receptor) GPCR complexes could lead to the design of more efficacious drugs that have fewer side effects

26 Jun 2020: Sarah Caddy is interviewed about her work on COVID-19 during the pandemic and extending her work with Leo James’ group on how antibodies neutralise

29 May 2020: New Members in 2020 include musicians, historians, social scientists, and researchers in the mathematical, physical, and biological sciences.

23 Oct 2020: I have also started working on a new project with Radu Aricescu and Jan Löwe to test new vaccine candidates. ... chip model to understand the immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis and develop new drug treatments.

18 Dec 2020: Alex Bates, who recently completed his PhD in Greg Jefferis’ group in the Neurobiology Division, was awarded the BNA Postgraduate prize for his work on

24 Nov 2020: Rebecca Taylor’s group has identified a signalling molecule that connects detection of a stressful environment by the nervous system with molecular defence mechanisms in other tissues and leads to changes in feeding behaviour and reproduction.

23 Jul 2020: Producing maps of how neurons connect with each other (connectomes) allows scientists to build and test theories of brain function. Greg Jefferis’ group have presented the first full map of olfactory, thermosensory, and hygrosensory projection

28 Aug 2020: The brain contains an enormous number of connections, known as synapses. Their loss is associated with many disorders. Radu Aricescu’s group and collaborators in Japan and Germany have designed a molecule that restores synapses in animal disease

25 Mar 2020: Kim, who is currently the Whitley Chair at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford and a fellow of Trinity College, has made hugely valuable

1 Sep 2020: illness, offering hope of new therapies for a range of devastating conditions, from Alzheimer’s disease to epilepsy.

21 Jan 2020: Piotr Szwedziak, a former PhD student and post-doctoral researcher in Jan Löwe’s group, has received an EMBO Installation Grant to establish an

18 May 2020: MRC LMB seeks DNA volunteers. Published on. 18 May, 2020. Cambridge Independent feature story on Julian Gough’s new phenotype prediction genome data study, which is also exploring whether DNA genotype

7 Dec 2020: The LMB celebrated its latest book, Ahead of the Curve: Women Scientists at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology by Kathleen Weston, with an online book launch of presentations from around the world.

2 Jan 2020: Proof-of-principle research led by Chris Russo showing that cryo-EM could be made 10 times cheaper is highlighted by the MRC. “Our goal is to make cryo-EM

3 Jul 2020: Nicholas Green is interviewed in the Cambridge Independent about John Sutherland’s group’s recent research suggesting that DNA and RNA building blocks

6 Aug 2020: Yanlan Mao, who did her PhD with Matthew Freeman’s group in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, has been awarded the RMS Medal for Life Sciences in

23 Jan 2020: The neuronal gene Arc plays important roles in neural plasticity, learning and memory-related molecular processes and has been shown to mediate intercellular RNA transfer by forming viral-like capsids. John Briggs’ group has now solved the first

11 Dec 2020: Published on. 11 December, 2020. A Nature News Feature about origin of life chemistry, including key work by John Sutherland’s group, and selection of the specific destination of a NASA

13 Oct 2020: After hearing him talk in a new group leaders’ seminar series, Liz realised that her colleague Madan Babu, who works on intrinsically disordered proteins, could help her a lot in understanding ... The job I’ve given myself is to do preliminary

4 May 2020: to reproduce new double-stranded DNA. ... These processes are tightly coupled by the replisome complex to avoid stretches of exposed single-stranded DNA between the point of unwinding and the point of synthesis of new DNA.