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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: 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: 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

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.

28 Sep 2023: Stanislau was nominated for was nominated for his research while a PhD student in David Barford’s group in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division.

25 Aug 2023: lead towards new therapeutic targets.

1 Feb 2024: The move to a new building in 2013 allowed the LMB to provide much improved facilities across the organisation for those with disabilities.

21 Jul 2023: Nat. New Biol. 246, 229–233 (1973). Wilcox, M., Mitchison, G. J. & ... https://www.opendemocracy.net/ (2009). Mitchison, G. Imagining a universe for Ian McEwan. New Sci.

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

7 Jun 2024: Locally Developed Software and Resources Good computer programs have always been vitally important to the work of the LMB. Many of the groups here write,

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

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

20 Nov 2023: Jill spent her early life in New South Wales, Australia. She later obtained her undergraduate and master’s degrees from the Australian National University and then her Ph.D. ... We are applying new short read genome curation methods, long-read

26 Jun 2024: LMB Investigator Scientist, Dariusz Czernecki, recently featured on Cambridge 105 Radio’s ‘Polish Waves’ programme. Listen to hear Dariusz chat about his

21 Jul 2023: Knowledge about the effects of DNA variations among individuals can lead to revolutionary new ways to diagnose, treat, and eventually prevent the thousands of disorders that affect us.

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

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: 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: 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.

26 Oct 2023: Knowable magazine covers competing theories as to how organelles such as the nucleus and endoplasmic reticulum came to exist within complex cells. They

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

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

3 May 2024: Carazo, M. Mann & W. Baumeister (2009) "New insights into the molecular architecture of the 26S proteasome". ... S.H.W. Scheres & P. Gros (2001) "Conditional optimization: a new formalism for protein structure refinement".

21 Jul 2023: LMB Nobel Facts

13 Dec 2023: Congratulations to Michel Goedert, Group Leader in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division, who has reached 40 years of service at the LMB.

25 Jul 2023: Published on. 25 July, 2023. Business Weekly cover recent research from Jason Chin’s group in the LMB’s PNAC Division which details their new technologies for continuous genome synthesis.

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

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 May 2024: Vogelstein at Johns Hopkins University. This research offers unprecedented insight into neural architecture, and provides a new basis to guide future experimental and theoretical studies into neural circuits and brain function. ... In addition, LMB

21 Jul 2023: Ulrich Wolfgang Arndt Crystallographic Apparatus 1948-1998 1948-1949 Geiger Counter X-ray powder diffractometer with focusing monochromator. Ph.D.

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: The new structures provide important insights into biological functions and mechanisms, and will help enhance the study of diseases, such as neurodegenerative diseases, infectious diseases and cancer.

21 Jul 2023: The Development of a New X-ray Image Intensifer for X-ray Diffraction Studies. ... 1999) New developments in X-Ray optics for macromolecular crystallography using laboratory X-ray sources.

21 Jul 2023: Papers and correspondence of James Watson. The archive collection of James Watson is deposited at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives, New York, USA.

6 Sep 2023: LMB 1967-2006, Group Leader, MRC Retired Worker, Structural Studies After switching scientific disciplines from theoretical chemistry to molecular

21 Jul 2023: 1982 Chemistry Prize - Aaron Klug “for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important

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

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

21 Jul 2023: Major human erythrocyte glycoprotein spans the cell membrane. Nature New Biology, 231, 229-232 (1971). ... Asymmetrical lipid bilayer structure for biological membranes. Nature New Biology, 236, 11-12 (1972).

21 Jul 2023: Scientific Facilities & Support Services One of the cornerstones of LMB science is the provision of excellent facilities and support services which

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

21 Jul 2023: Between 1962 and 1964, LMB Student, Hans Boye, took some amateur film of the LMB, in its new Hills Road building. ... DVD: 109 minutes, The Biochemical Society. Official opening of the new building for the Department of Biochemistry, University of

13 Nov 2023: The 2023 Max Perutz Lecture titled ‘Decoding the protein dance’ will be given by Paola Picotti at 11AM (GMT) on 20th November.

21 Jul 2023: Scientific Models The LMB archives hold a small selection of scientific models, the majority of which have been made for or by the LMB.  Many of these

23 Feb 2024: The scheme is intended to facilitate knowledge and skill exchange between technical specialists and, to this end, Tina spent one week in the Flow Cytometry Facility at the LMB learning new ... goals, but also in taking part in public engagement or to

25 Aug 2023: Gene transcription is an essential cellular process. Yet, RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) is constantly faced with challenges on its way across the gene. One

21 Jul 2023: LMB scientists are investigating asthma to identify novel targets for the development of new therapies. ... LMB scientists have developed sophisticated transgenic mouse models to understand these diseases and assess new therapeutic strategies.

21 Jul 2023: 1958 Chemistry Prize - Fred Sanger “for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin”