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12 Apr 2022: he gave a reminiscing talk at the LMB (a modified version was published in Genetics 165: 1633-1639, 2003) and the 2014 LMB Alumni Symposium.

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

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

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

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

23 Sep 2022: Anthony Hyman has been jointly awarded the 2023 Breakthrough Prize for Life Sciences. Anthony, along with Clifford Brangwynne, discovered an entirely new

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

18 Mar 2022: Pinheiro et al (2012), Science, 336 , 341-344. DNA and its close relative RNA form the genetic material of all life on earth - the form the blueprint of every living organism. We asked the question if this function is unique or if alternative means

26 Aug 2022: This award is given in honour of Francis Crick and was endowed by Sydney Brenner, both LMB alumni.

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

21 Jul 2022: Former PhD student, Emma Werner, from Felix Randow’s group, explains her 2021 Springer Nature journal publication on antibacterial cell-autonomous

18 Mar 2022: Houlihan G , Arangundy-Franklin S, Porebski BT, Subramanian N, Taylor AI & Holliger P. (2020) Discovery and evolution of RNA and XNA reverse transcriptase function and fidelity. Nature Chemistry, 12 : 683–690 (cited by 17). Shows a method for

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18 Mar 2022: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK.

18 Mar 2022: As the ancestral replicase appears to be lost in time, work in our lab is aimed at building modern-day analogues of the ancestral replicase to reconstruct this key aspect of the RNA world and learn more about the functional properties of life’s

18 Mar 2022: The molecular architecture of modern-day organisms is based on a division of labour among two types of biopolymers, proteins, which perform the bulk of molecular function and the nucleic acids DNA and RNA, which encode and carry genetic information.

18 Mar 2022: Method for Directed Evolution of DNA Enzymes / Compartmentalised Self Replication Method for in vitro Evolution of Molecular Libraries. International Application No. PCT/GB01/04108; 14 granted patents worldwide, Including EP1317539, EP1505151, and

18 Mar 2022: Curriculum vitae - Philipp Holliger. ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3440-9854. h-index: 44 (source, Google Scholar). Address: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK. Philipp Holliger is a Program Leader at the MRC

7 Mar 2022: Our structures. Our methods aim to open up new experimental possibilities in Structural Biology studies. By ourselves or through collaborations, we have used our methods to determine new structures. Some of these structures are described here. For

20 Sep 2022: A few years later he moved to Crowborough, East Sussex. He kept in touch with former colleagues at the LMB and in 2014 attended an alumni symposium, to celebrate the opening

6 Oct 2022: He is one of only five people to have received two Nobel Prizes. ... Few people outside of the world of science have heard of Fred Sanger, but in this field he is one of the most influential scientists of the twentieth century: an inspiration,

13 Apr 2022: With so much academic learning happening during the pandemic on screens though, there was the additional challenge of people’s ‘digital fatigue’ for public engagement to face. ... LMB to both people’s individual lives and within their communities.

12 Oct 2022: The aim was to cast LMB staff and show people a taster of the daily life within the LMB. ... This helped to keep people safe, preventing anyone from accidentally walking into the path of the drone.

8 Aug 2022: The show, which has run for over 10 years, is a chance for people at the LMB to showcase their creative talents. ... th. anniversary. Jillian Deans, organiser of the LMB Craft and Chatter Group, held workshops for LMB people to try their hand at

12 Apr 2022: Sidney Altman was a ground-breaking scientist in the field of RNA biology, whose discovery of catalytic properties of RNA led to the award of the Nobel

24 Oct 2022: She is a very generous and warm person who always greets everyone with a smile and goes out of her way to care for people.

7 Jan 2022: Don Caspar, LMB alumnus, has died at the age of 94. Don first came to the MRC Unit for the Study of the Molecular Structure of Biological Systems (now the

29 Jun 2022: al, Nature 2019) for which Ravindra was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2020.

9 Nov 2022: In 2022, we opened the vote to our Meet the Scientists participants for a ‘People’s Choice’ award. ... People’s Choice award winner, Caterpillar eggs, Highfield Littleport Academy, Cambridgeshire. Bottom row – 2022 Microscopes4Schools

17 Jan 2022: As the local hospital, and a key neighbour to the LMB on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Addenbrooke’s has supported many people from the LMB with diagnosis and treatments, especially during

29 Sep 2022: Although tuberculosis (TB) remains a major infectious threat, killing more than one million people each year, most infected individuals can clear the infection. ... Epidemiological analyses from Lalita and her colleagues Marcel Behr and Paul Edelstein

30 May 2022: Blue Sky projects will continue to deliver outstanding science and give us access to amazing people and resources.

10 May 2022: Congratulations also to the LMB alumni elected to Royal Society Fellowship.

2 Nov 2022: Dr Kathleen Weston Kathleen Weston was a PhD student with Bart Barrell at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology from 1983 to 1986. After postdoctoral

6 Oct 2022: The pace of work at POST was surprisingly fast as I had to complete my research (including interviewing people) and writing in two months. ... My cohort of Policy Fellows was very sociable and we would often have lunch together in the various canteens in

19 Apr 2022: Terry Rabbitts Terry Rabbitts studied for his PhD at the MRC National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London, working on mitochondrial nucleic

23 Aug 2022: Vernon Ingram, born in Germany, was a protein chemist who helped advance the field of protein crystallography and made important contributions to the

13 Oct 2022: Suzanne Cory and Joan Steitz talk to Joan Heath about their memories of LMB in the 1960s, their careers since, and their thoughts on past and present

19 Jul 2022: BioNTech collaborated with US pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, and by November 2020 they had a vaccine candidate which was over 90% effective in protecting people from transmission.

23 Mar 2022: Kiyoshi Nagai was a preeminent researcher at the LMB for over thirty years during which he was a global leader in the field of spliceosome research. His

5 Oct 2022: Morten Meldal shares the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Carolyn R. Bertozzi and K. Barry Sharpless for “the development of click chemistry and

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

28 Jan 2022: Kenneth Holmes (1934 – 2021) Ken Holmes, LMB alumnus and friend, has died at the age of 86. He was a PhD student with Rosalind Franklin at Birkbeck

22 Nov 2022: In addition, LMB alumni, Andreas Boland and Manuela Hospenthal, were also selected.

27 Oct 2022: Catherine Dulac from Harvard University will deliver the 2022 Francis Crick Lecture on ‘Neurobiology of Social and Sickness Behaviors’

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

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