Author: Paul Brackley
Title: Cambridge region scientists dominate Alzheimer’s Research UK awards
Reference Cambridge Independent April 3rd 2019
Year: 2019
Type: Science; Awards & Prizes
Subject: Dr Benjamin Falcon, early career post doc at the LMB takes a share in the Rising Start award, with £10,000 for research exspenses, for his work on unravelling the structures of the tau protein cases of tau protein
Keywords: Rising Start award; £10,000; tau protein;
Photographs:Author: Paul Brackley
Title: A super cool experiment
Reference Cambridge Independent April 7th 2019
Year: 2019
Type: Science; Awards&Prizes
Subject: Dr Richard Henderson- Nobel prize winning scientist at the LMB received his prize for developing a way of cooling molecules to -196 so they can be looked at under a cyro- electron microscope.
Keywords: cyro- electron microscope; Richard Henderson
Photographs: Keith HeppellAuthor: Phil Prime
Title: A word on Watson...
Reference In brief February 2019
Year: 2019
Type: History- Reminscences
Subject: A review on James Watson- Keeping the science separate from the Scientist, a self crowned individualist
Keywords: DNA; James Watson; Racism
Photographs:Author: Paul Brackley
Title: Researcher of the year
Reference Cambridge Independent 11 September 2019
Year: 2019
Type: Science; Prizes& Awards
Subject: Dr Benjamin Falcon has learnt to perform cryo-electron microscopy; Dr Julius Fredens how the total geonome on E. Coli was synthesised from scratch
Keywords: Dr Benjamin Falcon; cryo-electron; tau filaments
Photographs:Author: Paul Brackley
Title: 365 project captures life and work at the LMB.
Reference Cambridge Independent May 15th 2019
Year: 2019
Type: Science
Subject: The LMB posts an image a day on it’s website about it’s life and work, both past and present for 365 day’s a year.
Keywords: nematode worm C; human cerebal organoid; Drosophilia; Embryo; LMBees
Photographs: LMBAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: ‘A great loss to Science’ - ‘s computational biology pioneer dies.
Reference Cambridge Independent 4th December 2019
Year: 2019
Type: Obituary
Subject: Cryus Chothia, a pioneer of of techniques that have helped drive revolutions in geonomics and structural biology has died.
Keywords: Bioformatics; EMBO member; Proteins
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: Unravelling protein structures found in the brains of dementia patients
Reference Cambridge Independent April 3rd 2019
Year: 2019
Type: Science; Awards & Prizes
Subject: Ben Falcon has won a rising start award from Alzheimer’s Research UK for his work, which could aid the diagnosis and eventually the treatment of diseases including Alzeimer’s and CTE.
Keywords: Ben Falcon; Rising start award; CTE.
Photographs: Keith HeppellAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: From biomedical researcher to patient
Reference Cambridge Independent 10 July 2019
Year: 2019
Type: Science
Subject: Dr Tony Crowther went from researcher to patient when he was diagnosed with Leukaemia. He was put on trial for a new AstraZeneca drug.
Keywords: ACEND trail AstraZeneca; BTK; Tony Crowther
Photographs:Author: Gemma Gardner
Title: Science Image winners have microscopic eye for detail
Reference Cambridge Independent July 31st 2019
Year: 2019
Type: Awards and Prizes
Subject: School children across the cambridgeshire have captured the beauty of everyday life for 2019’s Science image award as part of the LMB’s outreach project
Keywords: Brad Amos; Butler Academy infant and junior School; Simon Bullock; St Paul’s Church of England Primary School; St Andrew’s Church of England Primary School
Photographs: Keith HeppellAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: How the timing of meals affects our body clocks
Reference Cambridge Independent May 8th 2019
Year: 2019
Type: Science
Subject: Scientists have now discovered the mechanism by which our meal times are communicated to our body clock
Keywords: Circadian Rhythms; John O Neil
Photographs:Author: Paul Brackley
Title: Worlds first synthetic organism with full recoded DNA is created at the LMB
Reference Cambridge Independent 22nd May 2019
Year: 2019
Type: Science
Subject: Tge entire geonome of E. Coli has been synthesised and given a new genetic code by Jason Chin and his group at the LMB
Keywords: E. COli; Mycoplasma; DNA; Amino Acid;
Photographs: Keith HeppellAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: Housekeeping secrets of our cells discovered by MRC LMB
Reference Cambridge Independent 27th November 2019
Year: 2019
Type: Science
Subject: Inside our cells, natural processes take place every day. Our cells tightly control levels of activity to maintain a smooth operation.
Keywords: RNA; Cells; Turbulins; TTC5;
Photographs:Author: Paul Brackley
Title: A vision for next generation of Nobel prize-winning technology
Reference Cambridge Independent 30th October 2019
Year: 2019
Type: Science
Subject: Cyro electron microscopy has revolutionised how biological molecules are imaged, enabling scientists to to resolve structures that were previously beyond reach.
Keywords: Cyro- EM; Microscopes; Richard Henderson;
Photographs: Keith HeppellAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: Tributes following the death of the LMB’s Kiyoshi Nagai at 70
Reference Cambridge Independent 9th October 2019
Year: 2019
Type: Obituary
Subject: Nagai’s legacy. The scientist who played a leading role in what is described as one of the greatest achievements in modern molecular biology
Keywords: E. Coli; Richard Henderson; RNA; DNA; Spliceome;
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Rodger Highfield
Title: Dawn of a new era for synthetic life
Reference Science Museum 25th January 2024
Year: 2024
Type: Science
Subject: A toolkit to reengineer life has been assembled by scientists Cambridge, marking a new era of synthetic biology
Keywords: Proteins; Constructive Bio; DNA; E.Coli;
Photographs: National Institutes of Health.Author: Micael Peel & Clive Cookson
Title: Science reprogramme microbes in quest to create new materials
Reference Financial Times 11th January 2024
Year: 2024
Type: Science
Subject: Scientists have broken an ‘evolutionary deadlock’ by genetically engineering microbes with the potential to develop a vast range of new projects from drugs to detergents and household plastics.
Keywords: Synthetic Biology; Jason Chin; Amino Acids; Genetic Code
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Dr M. F. Perutz
Title: Support for Nobel Prize winners
Reference The Times 1963
Year: 1963
Type: MRC- History
Subject: David kremlin has died. One of the first pioneer’s to the practicalities of a physical approach to Biochemistry
Keywords: Cavendish laboratory;
Photographs:Author: Hugh McLeave
Title: ‘Secrets of life’ men share £17,000 prize
Reference [Herald] 2nd November 1962
Year: 1962
Type: Prizes & Awards; MRC- History
Subject: Max Perutz and John Kendrew have won the Nobel prize for the study of complex cells.
Keywords: Nobel Proze; Heamoglobin; Myoglobin;
Photographs:Author: Rodney Tibbs
Title: Spider’s webs aid science in a micro-mini world
Reference Cambridge Evening News 29th June 1972
Year: 1972
Type: Prizes & Awards; MRC- History
Subject: Nigel Unwin has developed a method improving the performance of a £20,000 electron microscope- by means of spider’s web found in his garden shed.
Keywords: Miscopy; Spider’s web; Electron Microscope; Unwin
Photographs:Author: Pearce Wright
Title: Genetic find may help to explain ageing
Reference The Times 19th July 1976
Year: 1976
Type: Science; MRC- History
Subject: The next big advance in understanding the genes which govern indivduality in physical appearance and behaviour is near
Keywords: DNA; Chromosomes; Genetic code
Photographs:Author: Fulton Gillesipe
Title: Secrets of our nerves unlocked
Reference Cambridge Evening News 1993
Year: 1993
Type: Science
Subject: Nigel Unwin has found a way to look inside a key component of the nervous system implicated in diseases like Parkingson’s and Alzheimer’s
Keywords: Unwin; Receptor Molocule;
Photographs:Author: W.L. Bragg
Title: The Emigration of Scientists
Reference London Times 5th March 1953
Year: 1953
Type: MRC-Reminisces
Subject: W.L. Bragg gives a brief account of Scientists tempted to leave England due to lack of funding. Bragg takes on Max Perutz as his assistant in the 1960’s.
Keywords: Max Perutz; Cavendish Laboratory;
Photographs:Author: Cambridge Evening News
Title: MRC Laboratory chief to retire after 30 years
Reference Cambridge Evening News 25th April 1977
Year: 1977
Type: MRC-Obituary
Subject: Dr Max Perutz leader of the LMB for 30 years retires in 1979.
Keywords: Dr Syney Brenner; CBE; Cancer; Genetics
Photographs:Author: Cambridge Evening News
Title: Cambridge Scientist lands top job
Reference Cambridge Evening News
Year: 1974
Type: MRC-History General
Subject: A Cambridge scientist who has worked for the LMB for the past 13 years has been appointed Professor of Biochemistry at Imperial College London.
Keywords: Hartley; Biochemistry; Imperial College London
Photographs:Author: New Scientist
Title: Restoring the third dimension
Reference New Scientist 19 March 1970
Year: 1970
Type: History-MRC
Subject: Using powerful techniques, it’s becoming possible to unscramble various sorts of information contained in an electron microscope image, and to reconstruct the full 3 dimensional structure of the original object.
Keywords: Electron microscope; Dr Arron Klug; Diffraction patterns; Bacteriophage T4
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