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15 Dec 2015: Human eggs are frequently aneuploid, meaning they have the wrong number of chromosomes, and this is a major cause of pregnancy loss and Down syndrome.

5 Jun 2015: Miscarriages and genetic disorders, such as Down's syndrome, are often caused by errors when an egg develops from its progenitor cell, the oocyte. Most

25 Jun 2015: Genes in eukaryotic organisms are frequently interrupted by non-coding segments called introns. Before the protein can be produced, the entire length of each gene including the introns, is transcribed to produce precursor messenger RNA (pre-mRNA).

19 Oct 2015: Ribosomes, the molecular machines in cells that make proteins, are constructed in a series of discrete steps to create both a large and a small subunit.

27 Mar 2015: Children queued up excitedly during the Saturday and Sunday daytime sessions to use the microscopes, and the exhibit was also very popular in the new adults-only session on the Saturday

5 May 2015: There is compelling evidence that in the distant past, our single-celled ancestors used RNA, a chemical cousin of DNA, for both genetic information

25 Sep 2015: This new knowledge has implications for human health: children effected by the cancer and bone marrow failure syndrome Fanconi anaemia are unable to repair the DNA damage caused by formaldehyde.

27 Apr 2015: The structure of the actin-like protein ParM in different states has been revealed by Tanmay Bharat and Jan Löwe in collaboration with Garib Murshudov

19 May 2015: Jason Chin’s group from the LMB’s PNAC Division have created a new technique called BOLT that can selectively regulate specific proteins inside cells that could not previously be targeted. ... affected. Genetically engineering an entirely new site

21 Sep 2015: She then continued her work in the United States where she held Research Associate positions at the Rockefeller University, New York University Langone Medical Center and the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular