Author: Care, Adam
Title: Cambridge’s 92 Nobel Prize winners part 2 - 1951 to 1974: from Crick and Watson to Dorothy Hodgkin
Reference Cambridge News 18 January 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: Cambridge News’ has been rounding up all of Cambridge’s 92 Nobel Laureates, which includes 15 LMB scientists
Keywords: Nobel Prize; Fred Sanger; insulin molecule; Cavendish Laboratory; “messing about in boats”; Chemistry; Francis Crick; Medicine; James Watson; The Eagle; John Kendrew; Max Perutz; haemoproteins; hemoglobin
Photographs: Images of Francis Crick, James Watson, Max PerutzAuthor: Care, Adam
Title: Cambridge’s 92 Nobel Prize winners part 3 - 1974 to 1989: from Nigerian dissident to CT scan pioneer
Reference Cambridge News 25 January 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: Cambridge News’ has been rounding up all of Cambridge’s 92 Nobel Laureates, which includes 15 LMB scientists
Keywords: Nobel Prize; Fred Sanger; Chemistry; nucleotide; nucleic acid; order of Merit; The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute; Aaron Klug; Cavendish Laboratory; Cesar Milstein; Medicine; monoclonal antibodies; Georges Kohler
Photographs: Images of Fred Sanger; Aaron Klug, Cesar MilsteinAuthor: Care, Adam
Title: Cambridge’s 92 Nobel Prize winners part 4 - 1996 to 2015: from stem cell breakthrough to IVF
Reference Cambridge News 1 February 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: Cambridge News’ has been rounding up all of Cambridge’s 92 Nobel Laureates, which includes 15 LMB scientists
Keywords: Nobel Prize; John Walker; Fred Sanger; MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit (MBU); enzymes; John Sulston; Medicine; cell death; Sydney Brenner; Francis Crick; Elizabeth Blackburn; telomeres; Venki Ramakrishnan; ribosome; John Gurdon; pluripotent; Gurdon Institute; Michael Levitt; multiscale models
Photographs: Images of John Sulston, John Walker; Elizabeth Blackburn; Venki Ramakrishnan; John Gurdon; Michael LevittAuthor: Walsh, Fergus
Title: Why brains are beautiful
Reference BBC News 16 February 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Science
Subject: How advances in neuroscience, including LMB’s Madeline Lancaster’s work on ‘mini-brains’, are helping to unlock the secrets of this biological masterpiece and help improve understanding of mental illness.
Keywords: human brain; “Brains are beautiful”; Madeline Lancaster; organoids; mental health; mini-brains; induced pluripotent stem calls (iPSCs)
Photographs: Image of organoids growing in the bottom of flaskAuthor: Martin, Andrew
Title: Office makeover: ‘If you can work anywhere, where do you want to work?’
Reference The Guardian 27 February 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Architecture and Buildings
Subject: An article about modern work spaces featuring the LMB
Keywords: £2000m; new building; Cambridge Biomedical Campus; Hugh Pelham; Cavendish Laboratory; Shack; A Nobel Fellow On Every Floor; canteen; Crick; Watson; kitchenette; table football
Photographs: Images of building, kitchenette and Pod and breakout areaAuthor: University of Cambridge
Title: Circadian rhythms: everything you always wanted to know about jetlag (but were too tired to ask)
Reference University of Cambridge 14 March 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Events and Celebrations
Subject: John O’Neill gives a talk at the University Technical College as part of the Cambridge Science Festival
Keywords: John O’Neill; Cambridge Science Festival; circadian rhythms; University Technical College (UTC); jetlag; shiftwork; talk
Photographs:Author: University of Cambridge
Title: Sex, food and smell
Reference University of Cambridge 16 March 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Events and Celebrations
Subject: Greg Jefferis gives a talk at the University Technical College as part of the Cambridge Science Festival
Keywords: Greg Jefferis; pheromones; Cambridge Science Festival; University Technical College (UTC); talk; smells;
Photographs:Author: ADCOCK
Title: Case Study: Medical Research Council - Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Reference ADCOCK 8 October 2015
Year: 2015
Type: Architecture and Buildings
Subject: Adcock the refrigeration air conditioning company look at the work they were contracted to do on the new LMB building
Keywords: Adcock; new building; BMS system; case study; refrigeration; cold rooms
Photographs: Sign out the front of building; view of atriumAuthor: Research Horizons - University of Cambridge
Title: A Tangled Tale
Reference Research Horizons February 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Science
Subject: A look at Alzheimer’s disease research and how there is still no effective drug available.
Keywords: ‘dementia tsunami’; Alzheimer’s disease; ‘tangles’; ‘plaques’; Michel Goedert; ‘magic bullet’; tau protein; ‘neurostatins’; neurodegenerative; Carol Brayne; Chris Dobson; David Rubinsztein; beta-amyloid
Photographs:Author: MRC Life
Title: Scientific sabotage is the name of the game in ‘Lab Wars’
Reference MRC Life April/May 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Miscellaneous
Subject: New card game has been jointly created by the LMB’s Caezar Al-Jassar
Keywords: Caezar Al-Jassar; Kuly Heer; ‘Lab Wars’; game; sabotage; academic rivalry
Photographs:Author: MRC Life
Title: LMB highly commended at the Understanding Animal Research Openness Awards
Reference MRC Life February/March 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: The LMB’s Biological Services Group received a highly commended prize for its Named Persons posters at the second annual Openness Awards
Keywords: Understanding Animal Research (UAR); Biological Services Group; Named Persons poster; Openness Awards; 79th Paget Lecture; highly commended prize; animal welfare
Photographs: An example of the Named Persons poster; framed sketch, drawn by UAR’s Mia Rozenbaum, received by winnersAuthor: MRC Life
Title: Lifetime Achievement Award Winner - Sir Gregory Winter
Reference MRC Life February/March 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: Greg Winter receives a Lifetime Achievement Award at The SCRIP Awards
Keywords: Gregory Winter; Lifetime Achievement Award; The SCRIP Awards; Miles Jupp; Cambridge Antibody Technology; Humira; Domantis; Herceptin; antibodies; Bicycle Therapeutics; bicycle peptides
Photographs: Greg receiving his award from Glen e Vries, President at Medidata and Miles JuppAuthor: Rosenthal, Peter B.
Title: From high symmetry to high resolution in biological electron microscopy: a commentary on Crowther (1971) ‘Procedures for three-dimensional reconstruction of spherical viruses by Fourier synthesis from electron micrographs’
Reference Philosophical Translations B 19 April 2015
Year: 2015
Type: History - Reminiscences
Subject: Commentary on Tony Crowther’s key paper written to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
Keywords: Tony Crowther; three-dimensional structure; Hugh Huxley; Aaron Klug; electron micrographs; macromolecular assemblies; X-ray crystallography; Tomato bushy stunt virus (TBSV); John Finch; Fourier; T4 bacteriophage; electron cryomicroscopy (cryoEM); Richard Henderson; Nigel Unwin; two-dimensional crystals; computational; tomogram; high-resolution; Jacques Dubochet
Photographs:Author: Le Moignan, Mick
Title: The New Master
Reference Once a Caian Michaelmas 2012
Year: 2012
Type: History - Reminiscences
Subject: Interview with Alan Fersht the new Master of Gonville & Caius college
Keywords: Alan Fersht; Master; Gonville & Caius; protein engineering; biotechnology; therapeutics; Francis Crick; Gregory Winter; cancer; Cesar Milstein
Photographs: Graduation, with wife, soon after their marriage; at Stanford; Daughter Naomi at her graduation;.his retirement as Director of the Centre for Protein Engineering; arriving at his surprise fiftieth birthday party at Caius; Alan with Rev Dr Jack McDonald toasting Cambridge’s success in the 2004 Boat RaceAuthor: Whipple, Tom
Title: Hawking leads 150 Royal Society scientists against Brexit
Reference The Times 10 March 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Funding
Subject: Article about the letter by 150 fellows from the Royal Society including LMB scientists, sent to The Times against Brexit and its possible effect on science funding.
Keywords: Stephen Hawking; Royal Society; Brexit; European Union (EU); Alan Fersht; Gregory Winter; Letter to the Editor; The Times
Photographs:Author: NC3Rs
Title: Mini-brains show great potential to replace animals in studying neurological diseases
Reference NC3Rs 29 March 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: Madeline Lancaster has recently won the annual NC3Rs 3Rs Prize for her work on the creation of brain organoids that mimic the developing human cerebrum
Keywords: “mini-brains”; NC3Rs; Madeline Lancaster; organoids; 3Rs Prize; cerebral; Matrigel matrix; GlaxoSmithKline; Alzheimer’s; Parkinson’s disease; microcephaly; “the year of the organoid”
Photographs: Madeline at the 3Rs Prize ceremonyAuthor: News Medical
Title: Cambridge Pharmaceutical Cryo-EM Consortium formed by FEI, five pharmaceutical companies, the Medical Research Council and the University of Cambridge
Reference News Medical 4 April 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Biotechnology
Subject: Sample preparation and data collection services on a cryo-transmission electron microscope (cryo-EM) will be provided to the consortium companies for early-stage drug discovery research
Keywords: FEI; Astex Pharmaceuticals; AstraZeneca; GlaxoSmithKline; Heptares Therapeutics; UCB; University of Cambridge; “Cambridge Pharmaceutical Cryo-EM Consortium”; drug discovery; Titan Krios; Nanoscience Centre; Richard Henderson; Relion; Sjors Scheres
Photographs:Author: The Institute of Cancer Research
Title: Artificial DNA could build new generation of cancer drugs
Reference The Institute of Cancer Research 12 April 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Science
Subject: Scientists have built the first 3D nano-sized objects using artificial DNA, which could be used to deploy cancer treatments inside tumour cells
Keywords: Xeno Nucleic Acids (XNA); microscopic pyramid; diamond; ‘packets’; 3D; nanostructures; The Institute of Cancer Research; tetrahedrons; octahedrons; electron microscopy; cancer; Phil Holliger
Photographs: 3D model from electron microscopy data of the artificial XNA polymersAuthor: PharmaTimes
Title: Allergan signs $3.3bn deal with Heptares
Reference PharmaTimes 10 April 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Biotechnology
Subject: Heptares Therapeutics, an LMB spin-out company, announces a deal with Allergan for development of novel treatments for neurological disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease.
Keywords: Allergan; Heptares; Pfizer; Sosei; M1; HTL9936; cognitive disorders; pharmacokietic profile; experimental neurological therapies
Photographs:Author: ScienceDaily
Title: Vital nutrient has key role in keeping body clocks running on time
Reference ScienceDaily 13 April 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Science
Subject: Magnesium – a nutrient found in many foods – helps control how cells keep their own form of time to cope with the natural environmental cycle of day and night
Keywords: Magnesium; body clocks; chronotherapy; John O’Neill; University of Edinburgh; internal clock; metabolism; circadian rhythms
Photographs:Author: Kruiniger, Sylvie
Title: Behind the picture: a tiny cell-killing drill
Reference MRC Insight 28 April 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Science
Subject: Christos Savva, from Electron Microscopy Facility scientist at th, talks about why understanding structures of important proteins could be the key to treating many different diseases
Keywords: ‘lysenin pore’; Christos Savva; ‘mushroom cap’; ‘stem; ’cryo-EM; pore-forming proteins; earthworm; prokaryotic; eukaryotic organisms
Photographs: Image of lysenin PoreAuthor: Highfield, Roger
Title: Ultimate molecular machine plays key role in superbug fight
Reference Science Museum 31 May 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Science
Subject: The ribosome is a complex biological machine that plays a central role in all living things and one that, according to Venki Ramakrishnan, could provide the key to combating the global scourge of antibiotic resistance.
Keywords: Venki Ramakrishnan; ribosome; RNA; amino acids; Ada Yonath; Thomas Steitz; synchrotron; ‘brain’; ‘heart’; 50S; Hay Festival; Royal Society; antibiotics
Photographs: Image of 30S component of ribosome; Venki speaking at the festivalAuthor: Elliott, Chris
Title: DNA discovery pioneer James Watson pays Cambridge tribute to colleague Francis Crick
Reference Cambridge News 10 June 2016
Year: 2016
Type: History - Reminiscences
Subject: James Watson returned to the LMB to deliver a special talk about Francis Crick, marking the centenary of Francis’ birth. Francis and Jim cracked the secret of the DNA structure in the MRC unit over 60 years ago
Keywords: James Watson; Francis Crick; Maurice Watkins; Cavendish Laboratory; Gonville & Caius College; Sydney Brenner; “the secret of life’; centenary Crick’s birth
Photographs: James Watson pictured at the LMB (LMB image)Author: Agha-Hossein, Michelle
Title: Soft Landings Project - The Medical Research Council
Reference BSRIA 16 June 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Architecture and Buildings
Subject: Details of the Soft Landings project for the new LMB building, including a summary of the building’s special features, the design and construction process and post occupancy evaluation
Keywords: Soft Landings Project; new building; The Queen; RMJM architects; BAM construction; “golden thread’; £212 million
Photographs: External shot of building; atrium, staff restaurant (LMB)Author: Elmes, John
Title: He & me - Interview with Richard Henderson
Reference Times Higher Education 16 June 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: The winner of the Copley Medal talks structural biology, fixing cars and sleeping soundly
Keywords: Richard Henderson; Copley Medal; Royal Society; Peter Higgs; Edinburgh; Europe; protein crystallography; biomolecules
Photographs: Richard holding model in office