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11 Mar 2024: Marta Shahbazi, Group Leader in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, has been announced as one of the 2024 recipients in the Life Sciences category.

21 Jul 2023: Our research has aimed to create a new generation of therapeutic agents, “bicycles”, based on highly constrained peptides with a bicyclic structure and a chemical core.

21 Jul 2023: The LMB News team works closely with the central UKRI press office, which handles all major media stories from across the MRC’s units, centres and institutes. ... The MRC press team also provides corporate information to the media and reports on recent

2 Apr 2024: As an aside, I’m exploring various tools to make new reporters of clock function which will help us get a better overall picture of what is going on inside a

21 Jul 2023: modeling. These studies offer new approaches for tackling the challenge of antibiotic resistance.

24 Oct 2023: “It is possible that the serotonin in our brains play an essential part in keeping us sane” Sir John Gaddum, 1954 The serotonin (5HT) system is believed

4 Jul 2023: New members are elected annually by the existing membership. At the LMB, Katja investigates the mechanisms that transform epithelial sheets of cells into complex, three-dimensional organs. ... I am grateful to my past and current lab members for helping

23 Feb 2024: Asymmetric cell division is the process by which one cell divides into two daughter cells that have different fates. Asymmetric division is the hallmark

21 Jul 2023: Contact Us You can contact the Public Engagement Team directly at: engage@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk We will share details of upcoming events and activities on our

21 Jul 2023: One of the world's leading research institutes, our scientists are working to advance understanding of biological processes at the molecular level - providing the knowledge needed to solve key problems in human health. Search this website. T to Z.

25 Aug 2023: We have also shown that cryo-EM can be used to identify previously unknown amyloid filaments and new disease entities.

5 Jul 2023: At the start of organ development during embryogenesis most animals consist of a simple polarised epithelial sheet of cells that transforms into complex

21 Jul 2023: As Deputy Director and Director he was deeply involved in the design and delivery of the new building to which LMB moved in 2013.

21 Jul 2023: Circadian rhythms are those daily cycles of physiology and behaviour that persist when organisms are isolated from the external world. They are expressed

21 Jul 2023: Resources Take a look at our variety of resources. Whether you are looking for an activity to do at home, are a local primary school teacher hoping to

25 Aug 2023: Our laboratory uses electron tomography, combined with several structural and cell biology techniques, to study cell surfaces of prokaryotes at the atomic

21 Jul 2023: Translation of genetic information into protein is fundamental to life. It is carried out by the large macromolecular machine called the ribosome. In

21 Jul 2023: Our goal is to understand how the structure of chromatin is involved in transcriptional regulation and how the tips of chromosomes, the telomeres, are

21 Jul 2023: One of the world's leading research institutes, our scientists are working to advance understanding of biological processes at the molecular level - providing the knowledge needed to solve key problems in human health. Search this website. Phil Evans

21 Jul 2023: We work on developing new instruments and methods for imaging biological molecules, (DNA, RNA and proteins), at atomic resolution.

21 Jul 2023: Tony Crowther’s first degree was in mathematics at Cambridge. After taking a postgraduate diploma in computing, he became a graduate student at the LMB.

19 Jan 2024: Funding To carry out a three year PhD with the University of Cambridge, you will need sufficient funds to cover the University fee (your course costs) and

21 Jul 2023: In the early nineties he, together with other groups, discovered new classes of myosins, confirming that myosin exists as a superfamily composed of 18 major classes of motor proteins [Structure (1996) ... One exciting avenue is a recent collaboration set

21 Jul 2023: John Kilmartin started his career as a Ph.D. student with Max Perutz in 1965 working on CO2 transport by haemoglobin and the Bohr effect. He prepared

21 Jul 2023: Below is a list of upcoming seminars at the LMB aimed at a general scientific audience and open to individuals throughout Cambridge. If you are not at the

21 Jul 2023: Past Events Artists in Residence: Home in the Service of Science MRC Festival of Research The WormWatch Lab Imagining the brain competition Crystal

21 Jul 2023: Lineage mapping the pre- implantation mouse embryo by two-photon microscopy, new insights into the segregation of cell fates..

21 Jul 2023: Proteins, nucleic acids and other biological macromolecules take part in virtually all processes within living organisms. Knowledge of their 3-dimensional

25 Aug 2023: lead towards new therapeutic targets.

6 Sep 2023: Useful Links General: Life at the LMB Postgraduate School of Life Sciences University of Cambridge: Postgraduate Admissions – how to apply to Cambridge

21 Jul 2023: Software Request Form This form is to request software for the automated design of O-mRNAs and tRNA operons as developed in Jason Chin’s group. The

21 Jul 2023: In 2014 Lori Passmore and Chris published in the journal Science a new support made entirely of gold, that improves image quality in cryo-EM. ... The new all-gold supports (UltrAuFoils ) substantially reduce specimen movement in the microscope, allowing

1 Feb 2024: Mechanistic understanding of these enzymes has the potential to open new therapeutic opportunities.

1 May 2024: Electronics Workshop. The Electronics Workshop has been a key factor in the development of new techniques and instrumentation at the LMB since the 1960s. ... The Workshop’s staff are always ready to discuss new projects, helping to develop an initial

21 Jul 2023: One of the world's leading research institutes, our scientists are working to advance understanding of biological processes at the molecular level - providing the knowledge needed to solve key problems in human health. Search this website. H to M.

21 Jul 2023: Alan Fersht was a Natural Sciences undergraduate and Chemistry postgraduate at Gonville and Caius from 1962-68. He was invited to join LMB as a group

21 Jul 2023: From A new layer of complexity in GPCR signalling could explain differences in receptor function and drug response.. . ... The discovery of a factor that regulates tubulin might in the future lead to new therapeutics for these diseases.

21 Jul 2023: One of the world's leading research institutes, our scientists are working to advance understanding of biological processes at the molecular level - providing the knowledge needed to solve key problems in human health. Search this website. A to G.

19 Sep 2023: The group undertakes independent research to develop and implement new mass spectrometry-based methods and they collaborate with LMB groups and apply these bespoke approaches to answer important biological questions. ... Catarina commented: “In 2023, a

23 Apr 2024: In the summer of 2017, Prof. Cai moved to the University of Manchester as the new chair professor in synthetic genomics. ... Recent research has taken advantage on new advances in high resolution imaging to study the remarkable polarisation that these

12 Mar 2024: reveal a large number of new factors required for organisation of cells by the microtubule motor dynein. ... Follow up studies of one of these factors, the RNA-binding protein SUGP1, provided a proof-of-principle of how the screen can lead to new

21 Jul 2023: LMB Science Stories LMB scientists have been at the forefront of many scientific advances.

22 Nov 2023: 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

21 Jul 2023: This work led to the realisation that the machine is driven by a mechanical rotary mechanism, a new principle in enzyme function. ... aging, obesity and neuromuscular and neurodegenerative diseases, with the aim of eventually producing new therapies.

21 Jul 2023: David Neuhaus studied chemistry at St. Edmund Hall Oxford from 1974-78 and then in 1982 obtained his PhD in synthetic organic chemistry at Imperial

16 Jun 2023: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic demonstrates how quickly we can find ourselves desperately needing new antivirals and therapeutics. ... This new class of antiviral exploits molecules called Bicycles – short peptides wrapped around a small molecule kernel.

21 Jul 2023: Biophysics Lectures The Introduction to Biophysical Techniques lecture series cover many of the biophysical techniques that are available within the LMB

10 Jan 2024: the time; how tRNAs, the small RNA molecules that direct the building of new proteins at the ribosome, can in certain circumstances adapt their reading of the genetic code. ... She also began to collaborate with a new young group leader, Hugh Pelham.

21 Jul 2023: Supporting Education LMB scientists and staff work with primary and secondary schools, colleges and other organisations to inspire and enthuse young

21 Jul 2023: LMB on the Road LMB scientists and staff are involved in a variety of public engagement events, festivals, exhibitions and schemes, spreading enthusiasm