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The MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) is a research institute dedicated to the understanding of important biological processes at the levels of atoms, molecules, cells and organisms. In doing so, we provide knowledge needed to solve key problems in human health.

Our scientists tackle fundamental, often difficult and long-term research problems. The LMB has made revolutionary contributions to science, such as pioneering X-ray crystallography and electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) to determine protein structures, the sequencing of DNA and the development of monoclonal antibodies. Twelve Nobel Prizes have been awarded for work carried out by LMB scientists.

The LMB also promotes the application and exploitation of our research findings, both by collaboration with existing companies and the founding of new ones, helping to advance medical research and the translation and application of knowledge.

The LMB provides an unsurpassed environment for both young and established researchers, with state-of-the-art facilities and a unique scientific culture. The LMB has always been very diverse, with a truly international outlook. We currently employ men and women from over 50 countries, and LMB alumni work in research organisations across the world.

Insight on Research

A genome-wide resource for dissecting transport within cells

Chun Hao Wong and Simon Bullock, from the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, together with Douglas Ross-Thriepland and colleagues at AstraZeneca, have systematically disrupted every gene in cultured human cells to reveal a large number of new factors required for organisation of cells by the microtubule motor dynein.

New insights into genetic mechanisms involved in kidney development

John-Poul Ng-Blichfeldt and Katja Röper, in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, have collaborated with Julie Williams from AstraZeneca, to use renal organoids to investigate the human mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition, crucial to the morphogenesis of kidneys.

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