Author: Adrian Peel
Title: Pioneering scientist dies at 87
Reference Cambridge Independent 27 July 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Obituary
Subject: Former group leader Dr Andrew McLachlan has passed away at the age of 87.
Keywords: Dr Andrew McLachlan Trinity college Group Leader
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Lee Makowski
Title: Crystalloprapher who defined rules of virus structure
Reference Physics Today Collection 6 January 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Obituary
Subject: Donald Casper defined the rules that govern self assembly of simple viruses This laid the foundations for a new way of thinking about the molecular systems that regulate and drive all living cells.
Keywords: Donald Casper Viruses DNA RNA Protiens
Photographs: AIP EMILO SEGRE VISUAL ARCHIVESAuthor: Cambridge Independent
Title: TB research pioneer joins LMB division
Reference Cambridge Independent 23 February 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Biography
Subject: A pioneer researcher renowned for her work on Tuberculosis has joined the LMB cell division as a group leader.
Keywords: Lalita Ramakrishnan Tuberculosis Zebrafish Cell
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: The day the Queen received insight into LMB research
Reference Cambridge Independent 13 September 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Media Events; History- LMB; Visitors; Science
Subject: The death of the Queen brings back fond memories of her visit to the LMB in 2013
Keywords: Queen Duke of Edinburgh LMB
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Paul Buckley
Title: Tributes to long-serving research assistant
Reference Cambridge independent 28 September 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Obituary
Subject: Tributes made to John Jarvis, a former research assistant who served at the LMB for nearly 40 years died at the age of 80.
Keywords: Tributes John Jarvis Assistant PNAC Division Immunoglobulin
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Paraminder Dhillon., Eleni Skourti., Lori A. Passmore
Title: In conversation with Lori Passmore
Reference The FEBS Journal 15 March 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Science; Biography
Subject: An Interview with Lori Passmore, discussing her work as a group leader at the LMB.
Keywords: Protiens RNA DNA Cryo-EM
Photographs: LMB MRCAuthor: The company of Biologists
Title: Interview with the 2023 Hooke medal winner Andrew Carter
Reference Journal of Cell Science
Year: 2023
Type: Science; Biography
Subject: Andrew carter in interview discussing his achievements, research and his career.
Keywords: BSCB Hooke Medal Cell Biology Structural Biology Group leader
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Disease Models & Mechanisms
Title: Refinfing tuberculosis: an interview with Lalita Ramakrishnan
Reference Disease Models & Mechanisms 23 March 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Science; Biography
Subject: An interview with Lalita. She discusses her research on TB using zebrafish.
Keywords: Lalita Zebrafish Macrophages
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Miryam Naddaf
Title: Gigantic map of fly brain is a first for a complex animal.
Reference Nature news 10 March 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Science
Subject: Fruit fly ‘connectome’ will help researchers to study how the brain works, and could further understanding of neurological diseases.
Keywords: Fruit fly Neurological diseases Synapses Drosophila Connectome
Photographs: Eye of Science/Science Photo libraryAuthor: Jyoti Madhusoodanan
Title: Smart microscopes spot fleeting biology
Reference Nature 9 Febuary 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Science
Subject: Automated microscopes that adapt to each sample’s quirks can capture elusive biological phenomena at high resolution
Keywords: Robert Prevedel Microscope Kate McDole Brain Embryo Mouse
Photographs:Author: UKRI News
Title: Common heartburn drugs could speed up tuberculosis treatment
Reference UKRI news
Year: 2023
Type: Science
Subject: Over-the-counter heartburn drugs could shorten the treatment of tuberculosis (TB) and reduce the chances of the bacteria that causes TB becoming drug resistant
Keywords: Heartburn drugs TB Lalita Ramakrishnan Drug
Photographs:Author: University of Cambridge News
Title: Rare genetic disease may protect Ashkenazi Jews against TB
Reference University of Cambridge 06 February 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Science
Subject: Scientists may have solved the question of why Ashkenazi Jews are significantly more susceptible to a rare genetic disorder known as Gaucher disease – and the answer may help settle the debate about whether they are less susceptible to tuberculosis
Keywords: Jews Gaucher Tuberculosis Zebrafish Lalita Ramakrishnan Macrophages
Photographs: Cambridge UniversityAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: Method by which HIV-1 harvests a product of our cells to infect us is uncovered by research led by MRC LMB in Cambridge
Reference Cambridge Independent 20 January 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Science
Subject: An extraordinary finding about the HIV-1 virus could lead to the design of new small molecules to prevent infection.
Keywords: HIV-1 Leo James AIDS
Photographs: Keith HeppellAuthor: Adam Levy
Title: The age-old problem of telomere maintenance
Reference Nature Portfolio
Year: 2023
Type: Biography: Awards& Prizes
Subject: Kelly Nguyen is the 2022 winner of the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators. She is a Group Leader at the LMB. She spoke to Adam Levy about her pioneering work on the structure and function of telomerase, and its vital role in everyday cell function and disease
Keywords: Eppendorf Kelly Nguyen Telomerase DNA Chromosones
Photographs: EppendorfAuthor: The Biologist
Title: Interview with Dr Madeline Lancaster
Reference The Biologist 28 September 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Biography
Subject: Developmental biologist Dr Madeline Lancaster discusses how she almost accidentally created cerebral organoids, and the fascinating insights they are revealing about what makes the human brain special
Keywords: Madeline Lancaster Cerebral organoids Stem cells Brain
Photographs: Lancaster labAuthor: TED Talks
Title: A virus-resistant organism -- and what it could mean for the future
Reference TED 31ST October 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Talks; Speeches
Subject: A TED talk about breakthrough science, synthetic biologist Jason W. Chin describes his team's work rewriting the genetic blueprint of cells to create a virus-resistant organism
Keywords: DNA Genetic blueprint virus resistant Synthetic genome Jason Chin
Photographs:Author: Paul Brackley
Title: Microscopes4Schools winner prove small really is beautiful.
Reference Cambridge Independent 20 July 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Awards & Prizes; Science
Subject: University of Cambridge Primary school has won the Microscopes4Schools competition. The competition aims to encourage scientific curiosity in children
Keywords: Microscopes Brad Amos Winners University of Cambridge Primary school Kings Oak Primary School Ridgefield Primary School
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Joan Heath
Title: Joan Heath interviews Suzanne Cory and Joan Steitz: a female perspective of science in the swinging ‘60s
Reference The company of Biologists May 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Biography; Science
Subject: An interview with Joan Stietz and Suzanne Cory. They discuss there careers and experiences in Science and new new challenges for women in science in a post pandemic world.
Keywords: Joan Heath Suzanne Cory Joan Steitz PhD tRNA
Photographs: Mark BretscherAuthor: Federation of European Biochemical Societies
Title: The FEBS open bio article prize 2022
Reference Federation of European Biochemical Societies 18 February 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Awards & Prizes; Science
Subject: Sofia Lovestam has won FEBS bio articles prize. It’s awarded to PhD or Post Doc researchers who have published a paper of special interest within 5 years of receiving their PhD
Keywords: FEBS PhD Seeded assembly
Photographs: LMB MRCAuthor: Istvan Hargittai
Title: A unique venue of discoveries in structural chemistry and structural biology: the 75‐year and 60‐year jubilees of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology—a personal tribute
Reference Structural Chemistry September 2021
Year: 2021
Type: History-LMB
Subject: In 1962, the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, moved into a new building and continued a success story that had begun 15 before. Milestone discoveries and Nobel Prizes have followed ever since. They have led to profound changes in our basic ideas about the nature of life and the way medicine operates. Structural chemistry has paved the way for this unprecedented progress.
Keywords: Structural biology Helix structures Watson and Crick Richard HendersonHargittais
Photographs: HargittaisAuthor: Andrew Travers
Title: Cooperating geonomes
Reference Cambridge University Press 03 February 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Science
Subject: The essence of biological complexity is communication – a transmission of information between the component parts of an association. But what is the nature of this information and how do genomes co-operate to form a complex web?
Keywords: Mycelia Mycorrhizal fungus Fungi
Photographs:Author: Venkat Gopalan
Title: Tribute to Sidney Altman
Reference A publication of the RNA society 16 September 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Obituary
Subject: Tribute dedicated to Sidney (Sid) Altman, one of the veritable architects of modern RNA research. Sid is widely known as the co-recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, an honor shared with Tom Cech for the discovery of catalytic RNA
Keywords: Nobel prize Chemistry Sidney Altman
Photographs:Author: Paul Brackley
Title: Five researchers join EMBO
Reference Cambridge Independent 13 July 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Events & Celebrations; Science
Subject: 5 Cambridge researchers have been among 58 new members of the Molecular Biology Organisation. Among them is Dr Madeline Lancaster from the LMB
Keywords: EMBO Dr Madeline Lancaster Cerebral Organoids Stem cells Menna Clatworthy
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: Winners from Microscopes4Schools Science Image Award revealed
Reference Cambridge Independent 22 December 2021
Year: 2021
Type: Science; Awards & Prizes
Subject: Duxford Community Church of England Primary School have the Microscopes4Schools competition for its an image of a pansy.
Keywords: Microscopes Duxford Community Church of England Primary School Whinhills Primary Academy Histon & Impington Brook Primary School
Photographs:Author: Paul Brackley
Title: Exhibition room opens at MRC LMB
Reference Cambridge Independent 14 July 2021
Year: 2021
Type: Archive; Science
Subject: An exhibition room has been launched by the LMB director. Visitors will be able to learn about LMB history and its current research.
Keywords: electron cyromicroscopy sample holders cryo-EM
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