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23 Feb 2024: 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. Chris Tate

21 Jul 2023: Current Vacancies Listed below are the vacancies currently being advertised. In addition we welcome speculative applications from postdocs – see Postdoc

18 Mar 2024: Ultimately, mycobacteria can cause granuloma breakdown by inducing programmed macrophage death, a step that further increases bacterial growth and promotes transmission to new hosts. ... Our findings have been borne out in humans and are informing new

23 Feb 2024: Science News : Scientists have mapped an insect brain in greater detail than ever before. ... Sky News : First map of insect brain signals 'big step forward' in understanding thoughts.

22 Mar 2024: Thus, understanding their cell biology requires re-thinking some of our most basic assumptions (bilayers membranes) and the development of new research tools and methods (high-temperature live cell imaging).

23 Feb 2024: Information transfer in the nervous system occurs at synapses, where presynaptic signals are interpreted by postsynaptic receptors. We study this process

24 Oct 2023: Perutz Student Prize The Perutz Student Prize is awarded annually for outstanding work performed at LMB prior to the award of a Ph.D. Nominees

21 Jul 2023: For a list of recent news items please see the LMB News section.

21 Jul 2023: The LMB moved into a new, modern building in February 2013, on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. ... A new type of immune cell, that can initiate allergic asthma, has been found.

24 Oct 2023: Eileen Southgate Prize The Max Perutz Fund was set up in June 1980 in honour of the LMB’s founder, Max Perutz, and was established for the promotion

29 Jan 2024: Dendritic cells (DCs) play a key role in initiation of cytotoxic immune responses against pathogens and tumours. In order to prime the relevant T cells,

23 Feb 2024: Our research is aimed at understanding the mechanisms and regulation of chromosome segregation in mitosis. During the cell cycle, accurate chromosome

21 Jul 2023: Since retirement in 2010 he has been working part-time in the University of Strathclyde on new types of microscope, using his ‘Mesolens’ and collaborating in published work on nonlinear optics

21 Jul 2023: Group Leader Profiles   Group Leaders are drawn to the LMB from all over the world, having gained experience in a variety of places. Some join the

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

21 Jul 2023: The MRC, realising the potential for medical applications of these developments, provided a new building for the unit, and in 1962 the Laboratory of Molecular Biology was opened. ... Since then, the Laboratory has been a prolific source of new ideas,

21 Jul 2023: In conjunction with Professor Matthew Wood and colleagues at the University of Oxford, we designed a new class of cell-penetrating peptides, called Pip, which showed outstanding cell and in vivo ... The new D-PEP peptides form the basis of founding of a

14 Mar 2024: Andrew Travers started his Ph.D. at the LMB under the tutelage of the late John Smith in 1964. After this he took a couple of years out as a post-doc in

21 Jul 2023: Scientific Training Electron Microscopy Biophysics Macromolecular Crystallisation Crystallography Course 2013 Statistics Course 2014 RNA-seq course

23 Feb 2024: We are interested in cell autonomous innate immunity, i.e. in the ability of individual cells to defend themselves against infection. Cytosolic defence