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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

11 Aug 2022: Inja Radman discusses her career so far with Women Ahead of Their Time (WATT), including the “fantastic time” she spent as a PhD student and Investigator

26 Apr 2022: Over the last 40 years, Paul has spearheaded several huge and vital projects; from designing the IT system for the new LMB building and facilitating the mass shift to work from ... Pat is also an active member of the LMB Green Committee, who are

10 Jan 2022: Michael Webster shares insights into his research, scientific interests and career so far as he joins the John Innes Centre as a Group Leader. Michael

23 Mar 2022: Nikolai Kiselev (1928 – 2016) Nikolai Kiselev was a long-term supporter and collaborator of the LMB. He first visited the Lab in 1966, as a Postdoctoral

14 Oct 2022: The Division has been expanding significantly over the last 10 years, as new areas of research have been added, in addition to other successful areas being extended. ... In April 2017, she was awarded the GlaxoSmithKline Award for recognition of research

16 May 2022: To mark the award of the Hartwig Piepenbrock-DZNE Prize for his ground-breaking research into the molecular basis of neurodegenerative diseases, DZNE have

31 Oct 2022: Jason Chin, Joint Head of the PNAC Division, presents a TedTalk on his groundbreaking work in synthetic biology. Jason explores what would happen if we

25 Feb 2022: A new study from Kelly Nguyen’s group in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division has provided structures, which reveal unprecedented insights into the molecular basis underlying how shelterin recruits telomerase,

23 Sep 2022: Anthony, along with Clifford Brangwynne, discovered an entirely new mechanism for cellular organisation that concentrates cellular interactions between proteins and other biomolecules in membraneless droplets.

10 Jun 2022: Last year, Katerina published a new method to produce specimen support grids for electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM). ... The new grids, made of gold, provide superior quality data and can be manufactured in a scalable way which could ease the bottleneck

11 May 2022: Sjors Scheres, Group Leader and Joint Head of the Structural Studies Division, has been elected into the Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

19 Jul 2022: BioNTech co-founders Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci will discuss using mRNA technology in vaccines to treat cancer and COVID-19.

30 Mar 2022: The findings from this study present a new way of looking at the field of molecular neuroscience in general.

19 Apr 2022: A new study from David Barford’s group in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, has solved the structure of the human inner kinetochore when bound to a CENP-A nucleosome, ... These new insights into how the kinetochore functions could prove

16 Mar 2022: Now, new research from the group has shown that Ste2 has a novel method of activation which is unique from mammalian GPCRs. ... Computational processing of the datasets led to the determination of four new Ste2 structures; a ligand-free state, an

6 Jul 2022: Structural Studies Group Leader Kelly Nguyen has been honoured by the 2022 Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators for her innovative research on the spliceosome and telomeres.

28 Sep 2022: For Food Matters Live, Miriam Ferrer discusses her career to date, including her time at the LMB and how her passion for science was ignited by a

8 Apr 2022: The Cambridge Independent reports on a recent paper from Radu Aricescu’s group in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division. His group’s structural investigation

31 Aug 2022: Acute changes in the amount of CRY1 was able to reset the clocks of independent SCN to a new, common phase.

11 Mar 2022: Emeritus scientist Brad Amos is a guest on The Microscopists podcast from Bitesize Bio. Listen to him chat to host Peter O’Toole about his career,

20 Jan 2022: mechanisms. A new study from Michael Hastings’ group in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division, in collaboration with Andrew Loudon at the University of Manchester, utilised advanced synthetic biological methodology, pioneered by

10 Nov 2022: The presence of breaks at origins was confirmed using a new technique called INDUCE-seq, which allows the very precise mapping of DNA break (developed by Simon Reed’s group, University

14 Dec 2022: I have had the opportunity to oversee the design of a new building for the Ragon Institute, which will be completed in 2024.

26 Aug 2022: Tiago Branco is the 2023 recipient of The Royal Society’s Francis Crick Medal and Lecture in recognition of his research into molecular, cellular and

18 Jan 2022: Marta Shahbazi discusses her lab’s work on the benefits of culturing embryonic stem cells in 3D to better understand how stem cell signalling drives cell

7 Sep 2022: Published on. 7 September, 2022. New structure reveals how dynein motor domains interact and how a pair of cargo adaptors use conserved sequence motifs to scaffold the motor protein complex.

7 Apr 2022: Stephen Wallace has been awarded The Colworth Medal, given by The Biochemical Society to recognise outstanding research by a biochemist within 10 years of

6 Jul 2022: Published on. 6 July, 2022. Andrew Beale, a postdoc in John O’Neill’s group in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, discusses his plans as new Public Outreach Fellow for

24 Oct 2022: setting. 11 of the 18 schools were new from across Cambridgeshire, Bedford and Peterborough. ... pandemic. 61% new schools. Highfield Littleport Academy,. Cambridgeshire(Special School). first time of using a microscope in science.

20 Sep 2022: This new study establishes the existence of multiple molecular conformers of synucleinopathies. ... The new work also opens the way to the development of methods by which to produce α-synuclein filaments with structures identical to those in human brains