Author: Klug, A
Title: Opening the gateway
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Year: 1993
Type: Science
Subject: Understanding the mechanism of the initiation of transcription. News and views on Nature papers
Keywords: S. K. Burley (Rockefeller); J. L. Kim (Rockefeller); Y. Kim (Yale); R. D. Kornberg; P. B. Sigler (Yale); R. G. Roeder
Photographs:Author: Podger, Corinne
Title: £1/2m grant to boost Alzheimer's research
Reference Cambridge Evening News, 19 September 1998, p.2
Year: 1998
Type: Science; Funding
Subject: Announcement of new research project into the causes of Alzheimer's disease
Keywords: Alzheimer's Research Trust; Babraham Institute; Cambridge University Neurology Department; Freemason's Grand Charity; Michel Goedert; Lloyds
Photographs:Author: Gillett, Tim
Title: Research into dementia
Reference Cambridge Evening News, 24 September 1998, p.26
Year: 1998
Type: Science
Subject: Cambridge scientist Michel Goedert has been chosen to head a major research project into dementia
Keywords: Alzheimer's Research Trust; Michel Goedert; Rebecca Wood
Photographs:Author: Pelham, H. R. B.
Title: Understanding protein secretion
Reference MRC News, No. 51: 22-23, June 1991
Year: 1991
Type: Science
Subject: The study of the mechanism of protein secretion in animal cells and yeast, using a combination of molecular biology, biochemistry and genetics
Keywords: H. R. B. Pelham
Photographs: Group Photo outside LMB: P. Sorger, H. Pelham, K. Hardwick, M. Lewis, S. Munro, N. Dean, D. Sweet, B. JakobsenAuthor: Evans, P.
Title: The ESF Network on the crystallography of biological macromolecules
Reference MRC News, No.52: 28-29. September 1991
Year: 1991
Type: Science; Funding
Subject: European Science Foundation (ESF) and Collaborative Computing Project number 4 (CCP4) networks for crystallographic work
Keywords: AFRC; British Protein Crystallography; Collaborative Computing Project number 4 (CCP4); EMBL; EMBO; European Science Foundation (ESF); P. Evans; MRC; SERC,
Photographs: P. EvansAuthor: MRC News
Title: The opening of the Cambridge Centre for Protein Engineering
Reference MRC News, No.52: 30, September 1991
Year: 1991
Type: Visitors
Subject: Official opening of the Cambridge Centre for Protein Engineering by Rt. Hon. Margaret Thatcher
Keywords: Centre for Protein Engineering; Alan Fersht; Glaxo; ICI; IRC; Parke-Davis Research Unit; Dai Rees; Margaret Thatcher; David Williams; Greg Winter
Photographs: Margaret Thatcher, Dai Rees, David Williams, Alan Fersht after unveiling the plaque; Margaret Thatcher in conversation with scientists at one of the laboratories; Margaret Thatcher being presented with a basket of flowers, surrounded by onlookersAuthor: Kay, R. R.
Title: Slime over Europe
Reference MRC News, No. 55: 27-28, June 1992
Year: 1992
Type: Science
Subject: Work on the Dictyostelium discoideum and the importance of an EC network
Keywords: I. Carrin; Dictyostelium discoideum; T. Dingerman (Frankfurt); R. R. Kay; I. Morandini; A. Noegel (ICRF); M. Veron (Pasteur Institute); J. Williams (ICRF)
Photographs: Group Photo, outside LMB: A. Harwood, S. Hodgkinson, I. Morandini, O. Nayler, P. Morandini, R. R. KayAuthor: Bretscher, M. S.
Title: Dr Michael Wilcox
Reference MRC News, No. 55: 33, June 1992
Year: 1992
Type: Obituary
Subject: Michael Wilcox
Keywords: M. S. Bretscher; D. Brower; A. S. Dreiding; G. Mitchison; Marshall Nirenberg; R. Smith; Michael Wilcox
Photographs: Michael WilcoxAuthor: MRC News
Title: Decade of research on Alzheimer's wins award
Reference MRC News, No. 74: 7, Summer 1997
Year: 1997
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: Michel Goedert becomes the first UK winner of the Metropolitan Life Foundation award
Keywords: Alzheimer's Disease; Michel Goedert; Metropolitan Life Foundation Award
Photographs:Author: MRC News
Title: Literary prize for research pioneer
Reference MRC News, No. 764:7, Summer 1997
Year: 1997
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: Max Perutz has been awarded the Lewis Thomas Prize, Honouring the Scientist as Poet
Keywords: Max Perutz; Rockefeller University; Lewis Thomas Prize
Photographs: Perutz at microscopeAuthor: MRC News
Title: Inside story of hepatitis B virus
Reference MRC News, No. 74: 6, Summer 1997
Year: 1997
Type: Science
Subject: A new computer image analysis technique enabled scientists to unmask the protein at the core of the hepatitis B virus
Keywords: Bettina Bottcher; Tony Crowther; Hepatitis B; Sam Wynne
Photographs: Tony Crowther, Sam Wynne & Bettina BottcherAuthor: MRC News
Title: Think global - and take failure in your stride
Reference MRC News, No.62: 6, Spring 1994
Year: 1994
Type: Biotechnology Companies
Subject: UK biotechnology companies must think internationally from the start if they are to succeed in the global marketplace, says Alan Munro, founder and scientific director of Cantab Pharmaceuticals
Keywords: Cantab Pharmaceuticals; Alan Munro
Photographs:Author: MRC News
Title: Turning research into health care
Reference MRC News, No. 62: 2, Spring 1994
Year: 1994
Type: Biotechnology Companies
Subject: If you want to influence how your research is exploited, you could do worse than set up your own company, says Greg Winter of Cambridge Antibody Technology
Keywords: Cambridge Antibody Technology (CAT); Celltech; MRC; Anthony Nixon (CAT); Peptide Technology; Wellcome; Greg Winter
Photographs:Author: MRC News
Title: Structure of unusual enzyme unravelled
Reference MRC News, No. 68: 5, Autumn 1995
Year: 1995
Type: Science
Subject: Designer enzymes made of RNA offer a promising new approach to treating virus infections and some genetic diseases
Keywords: J. T. Finch; A. Klug; W. Scott
Photographs:Author: MRC News
Title: Something fishy
Reference MRC News, No. 68: 4, Autumn 1995
Year: 1995
Type: Science
Subject: Work to develope a database of the complete genome of the Japanese pufferfish Fugu
Keywords: Sydney Brenner; Graeme Elgar; Fugu; Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre; Japanse pufferfish
Photographs:Author: Milstein, Cesar
Title: Georges Kohler
Reference MRC News, No. 66: 40, Spring 1995
Year: 1995
Type: Obituary
Subject: Georges Kohler
Keywords: Niels Jerne; Georges Kohler
Photographs: Georges Kohler with Cesar Milstein after receiving the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1984Author: MRC News
Title: Tailor-made protein turns off cancer gene
Reference MRC News, No. 66: 7, Spring 1995
Year: 1995
Type: Science
Subject: A team of scientists at the LMB has succeeded in designing a new protein that can prevent the growth of cancer cells by blocking a cancer-causing gene
Keywords: Yen Choo; Aaron Klug; Daniella Rhodes; Isidro Sanchez-Garcia; Zinc fingers
Photographs: Aaron Klug & Yen ChooAuthor: MRC News
Title:
Reference MRC News, No. 66: 7, Spring 1995
Year: 1995
Type: Biographical
Subject: Aaron Klug nominated as the next President of the Royal Society
Keywords: Michael Atiyah; Aaron Klug; National Academies' Policy Advisory Group; Royal Society
Photographs:Author: Ferry, Georgina
Title: How the crocodile holds its breath
Reference MRC News, No. 66: 6, Spring 1995
Year: 1995
Type: Science
Subject: Noburu Komiyama and Kiyoshi Nagai pinpoint the gene responsible for a unique quirk in crocodiles haemoglobin which may help produce safe blood substitutes
Keywords: Noburu Komiyama; Kiyoshi Nagai
Photographs:Author: Weinberg, Alvin M.
Title: Messenger RNA: origins of a discovery
Reference Nature 414: 485, 29 November 2001
Year: 2001
Type: Book Review
Subject: Letter to nature in response to Horace Judson's review of James Watson's book, ‘Genes, Girls and Gamow’ offering clarification on the discovery of messenger RNA
Keywords: Lazarus Astrachan; Sydney Brenner; Francis Crick; Francois Jacob; Horace Judson; Matthew Meselson; Jacques Monod; Elliot Volkin; James Watson
Photographs:Author: Nature, Editor
Title: Clarification
Reference Nature 414: 487, 29 November 2001
Year: 2001
Type: Book Review
Subject: Nature does not agree with the views of Horace Judson in his review of ‘Genes, Girls and Gamow’, by James D. Watson
Keywords: Horace Freeland Judson; James D. Watson
Photographs:Author: Derbyshire, David
Title: DNA pioneer's papers are bought for Britain
Reference The Telegraph, 6 December 2001 http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/
Year: 2001
Type: Archives; Science
Subject: Francis Crick has sold his scientific archive to Britain for £1.8 million
Keywords: Francis Crick; Heritage Lottery Fund; James Watson; Wellcome Library; David Pearson (Wellcome Library); Wellcome Trust
Photographs:Author: Blow, David
Title: Paul Sigler, 1934-2000
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Year: 2000
Type: Obituary
Subject: Paul Sigler
Keywords: David Blow; Bob Diamond; Richard Henderson; Barbara Jeffrey (Harris); Brian Matthews; Paul Sigler
Photographs: Paul Sigler by Bob Diamond, Cambridge 1997Author: Hale, Beth
Title: Engineers create a killer robot
Reference Cambridge Evening News, 19 November 1999, p.17
Year: 1999
Type: Miscellaneous
Subject: MRC Engineers create a robot for the TV series Robot Wars
Keywords: Howard Andrews; Paul Hart; Robot Wars; Steve Scotcher
Photographs: Steve Scotcher, Howard Andrews & Paul Hart with their creationAuthor: Radio Times
Title: The Thread of Life
Reference Radio Times, 2 January 1964, p.7
Year: 1964
Type: Media Events
Subject: Details of the BBC programme Thread of Life, a series of ten talks by Dr John Kendrew
Keywords: Professor Bondi; John Kendrew
Photographs: John Kendrew