Author: Paul Brackley
Title: ‘Not in my wildest dreams’- Dr Jan Lowe on being appointed director of MRC LMB
Reference Cambridge Independent 7th February 2018
Year: 2018
Type: Science; MRC- General
Subject: Dr Jan Lowe is excited and humbled to made the new director of the LMB.
Keywords: Nobel prize factory; Hugh Pelham; DNA
Photographs: Jan Lowe- MRC LMBAuthor: Nicola Davis
Title: Briton wins chemistry Nobel for new enzymes
Reference The Guardian 04.10.2018
Year: 2018
Type:
Subject: British biochemist Sir Greg Winters is among 3 other scientist who have won the Nobel prize in Chemistry for their work in harnessing evolution to create new enzymes and antibodies.
Keywords: Greg Winters; Enzymes; Antibodies;
Photographs:Author: Cambridge News
Title: Pupil’s city art display
Reference Cambridge news 15th December 2010
Year: 2010
Type: MRC-General
Subject: Four Painting’s by Mu-Chun Chiang will be on display at the MRC Neuroscience Unit in Cambridge. Mu-Chung hopes her work will go on show for the MRC Microbiology Unit opening in 2012.
Keywords: Ley’s; Painting’s; MRC Microbiology; Brain
Photographs:Author: MRC Network
Title: Out of Focus; A little less conservation, A little more science
Reference MRC Network
Year: 2010
Type: Memoir
Subject: Memoir of Jerry Lingrels sabbatical
Keywords: Gurdon; John Lingrell;
Photographs: Dan DavenportAuthor: Cambridge Evening News
Title: CAT’s losses rocket to £6.4m
Reference Cambridge Evening News 29th May 1997
Year: 1997
Type: Biotechnology & Technology Transfer
Subject: Cambridge Antibody technology has announced hugely increased losses of £6.4 m in 6 months. Half the losses were due to the £2.9m paid in shares to the MRC in return for rights to jointly developed technology.
Keywords: CAT; Antibody
Photographs:Author: Fulton Gillsespie
Title: Breakthrough in medical Science
Reference Cambridge Evening News 6th December 1990
Year: 1990
Type: Science
Subject: Cambridge Scientists have scored a spectacular world first in antibody technology
Keywords: Andrew Griffiths; Greg Winter; Antibody; Cambridge Antibody Technology
Photographs:Author: Brenda Maddox
Title: Our DNA heritage goes on block
Reference The Daily Telegraph 5th February 2003
Year: 2003
Type: Science; MRC-History
Subject: An Archive of British scientific documents could return home from California if the British Library or collector can meet the price.
Keywords: Jeremy Norman; Molecular Biology; Max perutz; Francis Crick; Aaron Klug; Christies
Photographs:Author: News & Views
Title: Crystals to grow bigger
Reference Nature 21 September 1968
Year: 1968
Type: Science
Subject: Klug and other scientists have been able to crystalize a species of transfer RNA.
Keywords: RNA; Crystals; proteins; X-Ray
Photographs:Author: {Reuter}
Title: Two Britons win share of Nobel prize
Reference The Times 18.10.1962
Year: 1962
Type: Science; Prizes & Awards
Subject: Crick and Watson have been awarded this year’s Nobel prize for heredity research.
Keywords: Crick; Wtason; Nobel; Code
Photographs:Author: Cell tech
Title: Queens Award
Reference Cell tech MRC News June 1985
Year: 1985
Type: Prizes & Awards
Subject: It was announced in April that the Queens award for technological achievement has been given to cell tech for its work in establishing a production process for mono-clonal antibodies
Keywords: Queens Award; Cell tech; alpha interferon
Photographs:Author: Freya Leng
Title: City to host a science debate
Reference Cambridge News 28 June 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Science
Subject: 12 top female scientists will compete for attention at the Soapbox science event in Cambridge’s market square.
Keywords: Soapbox event; Nicola Symyllie
Photographs:Author: Paul Brackley
Title: LMB’S Sofia earns award for amyloid work
Reference Cambridge Independent 13th March 2024
Year: 2024
Type: Prizes & Awards; Science
Subject: Post doc Sofia is one of the winners for the Harold M Weintraub graduate student award for new treatments for neurodegenrative diseases
Keywords: Amyloid filaments Sofia Lovestam
Photographs: LMB MRCAuthor: Tony Quested
Title: Cambridge startup Outsee LTD aims to uneaarth new drug target with its AI geonomics tech
Reference Business weekly 13th March 2024
Year: 2024
Type: Science; Biotech & Technology Transfer
Subject: Dr Julian Gough has founded Outsee Ltd to exploit large scale geonomics datasets by using it proprietary AI geonomics technology for novel frug target discovery and validation
Keywords: AI; Julian Gough; geonomic data; BioMedTech; Chang Lu
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Mark Henderson
Title: Nobel prizewinner Venki Ramakrishnan warns on risks of immigration cap
Reference The Times 06.11.2010
Year: 2010
Type: Science
Subject: Venki took 40% pay cut due to new Visa immigration cap
Keywords: Immigration cap Venki; ribosome
Photographs: Chris HarrisAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: Greg becomes joint head of LMB’s Neurobiology Division as connectomics grow
Reference Cambridge Independent 11th October 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Science
Subject: Greg Jefferies joins Anna Bertolottias jpint head of the Neurobiology division. Greg aims to link genes, neural circuits and behaviour in the fruit fly.
Keywords: Connectomics; Drosaphila;
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: LMB welcomes new electron microscope under labs new funding
Reference Cambridge Independent 17th May 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Science; Funding
Subject: New electron microscope, enables proteins to be seen in atomic detail has been installed as part of a £103 million investment across a host of leading UK science institutions
Keywords: Cryro-electron microscope; goverment investment; Sjors Scheres; Secretary of state
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: New era of lower cost, lower energy cyro-EM ushered in by LMB.
Reference Cambridge Independent 29th November 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Science; Funding
Subject: Cyro- EM has already revolutionised the study of biological structures. the new microscopes was built at a fraction of the multi billion pound cost and size of current models by overturning conventional thinking about their operation.
Keywords: cyro- EM; microscope; Chris Russo
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Chris Elliot
Title: Bioscience pioneer is new master of Trinity
Reference Cambridge news 17 December 2011
Year: 2011
Type:
Subject: Sir Greg Winter has been picked as the new master of Trinity college
Keywords: Greg Winter; Trinity; pioneer; Master
Photographs:Author: Nature
Title: Thomas Authur Steitz Lunchtime Science
Reference Nature
Year: 2011
Type: Interview
Subject: An Interview with Thomas, a biophysicist from Yale University who spent some time at the LMB shares the 2009 Nobel prize in Chemistry for the knowledge of the structure and function of the ribosome
Keywords: Yale University; Nobel prize; Ribosome; HIV DNA polymerase; Antibacterials
Photographs:Author: Rachel Allen
Title: Taking on mother of all marathons
Reference Cambridge News 9th November 2011
Year: 2011
Type: Events; Science
Subject: LMB Scientist runs marathon in Athens for Alzheimer’s research UK
Keywords: Philippa Smith; Athens marathon; Alzheimer’s research UK;
Photographs:Author: Mike Scialom
Title: It’s a new day for Sosei Heptares
Reference Cambridge Independent 2018
Year: 2018
Type: Technology Transfer
Subject: The pharamceutical firm Heptares was officially opened last week. It was founded in 2007 by Chris Tate and Richard Henderson.
Keywords: Sosei Heptares; GPCR; Chris Tate; Richard Henderson
Photographs: Keith HeppellAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: Life in the lab
Reference Cambridge Independent 3rd October 2018
Year: 2018
Type: Public Engagement
Subject: Lifelab comes to inspire young people in Cambridge and Peterborough. Pop up labs and hands on activities were at the Grand Arcade and the Grafton,
Keywords: Life lab; Dr Kenneth Skeldon; Public engagement;
Photographs: Keith HeppellAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: Fred Sanger: The father of geonomics
Reference Cambridge Independent 22nd August 2018
Year: 2018
Type: Science
Subject: 100 years on from Fred Sanger’s birth, one of the greatest scientists ever lived for the study of Geonomics
Keywords: Geonomics; Insulin; Glucose; DNA; Diabetes;
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: Cambridge Scientists launch £100 million investment fund
Reference Cambridge Independent 5th September 2018
Year: 2018
Type: Funding
Subject: Lord Martin Rees, Sir Greg Winters, and Sir Venki Ramakrishnan inventions and technolgies have been valued at £100 billion. A fund of £100b will help build the next wave of billion-dollar companies working at the instersection of tech and science
Keywords: Lord Martin Rees, Sir Greg Winters, Sir Venki Ramakrishnan; Blue chip;
Photographs: Sir Cam; MRC LMB; Keith HeppellAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: Capturing Life through a microscope
Reference Cambridge Independent 25th July 2018
Year: 2018
Type: Public Engagement
Subject: Winner of school image competition-Impington and Histon take the hot spot with an image of a leaf skeleton
Keywords: Histon and Impington; Leaf skeleton; Mayfly Snake skin
Photographs: MRC LMB