Author: Exley, Stephen
Title: Good night’s sleep vital for your child
Reference Cambridge News, 20 February 2010, p.6
Year: 2010
Type: Science
Subject: Report about a survey suggesting children do not get enough sleep. LMB scientist Michael Hastings is among those interviewed for the article.
Keywords: children; Mariana Figueiro; Paul Gringrass; Michael Hastings; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; sleep
Photographs: Face board photo of Michael Hastings; child watching cartoon on televisionAuthor: Belcher, David
Title: Waking up to some boffin-free science
Reference The Herald, 25 February 2009
Year: 2009
Type: Miscellaneous
Subject: Review of BBC Two’s Horizon: The Secret Life of Your Body Clock, a programme LMB scientist Michael Hastings contributed to. (See recording HASTINGS-01-V).
Keywords: BBC Two; Michael Hastings; Bernard Hill; Horizon; The Secret Life of Your Body Clock
Photographs:Author: Mangan, Lucy
Title: Last night’s TV
Reference The Guardian, 25 February 2009
Year: 2009
Type: Miscellaneous
Subject: Review of BBC Two’s Horizon: The Secret Life of Your Body Clock, a programme LMB scientist Michael Hastings contributed to. (See recording HASTINGS-01-V).
Keywords: BBC Two; Michael Hastings; Horizon; The Secret Life of Your Body Clock
Photographs: ‘chronobiologist Dr Michael Hastings’ (by Rebecca Harrison/BBC)Author: Willey, Jo
Title: ‘Brain Tangle’ Clue Raises Hopes of an Alzheimers Cure
Reference Daily Express, 8 June 2009
Year: 2009
Type: Science
Subject: News of a study in mice demonstrating how tangles of a protein called tau can spread to the brain. LMB scientist Michel Goedert led the study.
Keywords: Alzheimer’s; Michel Goedert; mice; Nature Cell Biology; tau
Photographs: Scientist with pipetteAuthor: BBC News
Title: Rogue protein ‘spreads in the brain’
Reference BBC News, 7 June 2009
Year: 2009
Type: Science
Subject: Scientists have shown a rogue protein thought to cause Alzheimer’s can spread through the brain. LMB scientist Michel Goedert worked on the study.
Keywords: David Allsop; Alzheimer’s; Michel Goedert; Nature Cell Biology; ; Susanne Sorensen; vCJD; Rebecca Wood
Photographs: Brain cross-sectionAuthor: MRC
Title: Cancer gene switch for repairing damaged DNA
Reference MRC News, 28 May 2009
Year: 2009
Type: Science
Subject: LMB scientists have uncovered how an important cancer gene, BRCA1, works by increasing the accuracy with which DNA is repaired.
Keywords: BRCA1; cancer; CtIP; DNA; Kevin Hiom; Maximina H Yun
Photographs:Author: Howarth, Angus
Title: Scientists unlock the secrets of gene that fights cancer
Reference The Scotsman, 28 May 2009
Year: 2009
Type: Science
Subject: LMB scientists have found that a defective BRCA1 gene is unable to interact with the protein CtIP, making it unable to repair damaged DNA and ward off tumours.
Keywords: BRCA1; cancer; DNA; CtIP; Kevin Hiom
Photographs:Author: Willey, Jo
Title: Cancer Breakthrough as Secrets of Tumour Gene Unlocked
Reference Daily Express, 28 May 2009
Year: 2009
Type: Science
Subject: LMB scientists have discovered that a defective BRCA1 gene is unable to interact with the protein CtIP, making it unable to repair damaged DNA.
Keywords: cancer; BRCA1; Sarah Cant; CtIP; DNA; Kevin Hiom; Ed Yong
Photographs: Woman with doctor (posed)Author: Morgan, John
Title: The Cred That is Cambridge
Reference Cambridge Business, Q3 2009
Year: 2009
Type: Miscellaneous
Subject: Colin Moses of RMJM architects talks about why being in Cambridge means so much to an international firm. (RMJM are the architects behind the LMB’s new building.)
Keywords: Cambridge Biomedical Campus; Cavendish Laboratory; Stirrat Johnson-Marshall; LMB-2; Robert Matthew; Microsoft Research Building; Colin Moses; RMJM; School of Film and Media, University of Hertfordshire; UCLES
Photographs: University of Suffolk campus; Laboratory of Molecular Biology (new building); Microsoft Research Building; School of Film and Media, University of HertfordshireAuthor: Business Weekly
Title: LMB builder’s rise in turnover
Reference Business Weekly, 20 May 2009
Year: 2009
Type: Miscellaneous
Subject: The company behind the new LMB has reported a significant increase in turnover for 2008.
Keywords: BAM Construction
Photographs:Author: Braben, Donald (et al)
Title: UK’s creative science would flourish if set free from government guidance
Reference Financial Times, 24 June 2009
Year: 2009
Type: Politics
Subject: Letter to the Financial Times arguing that the trend of directing larger fractions of research funding to projects deemed capable of creating national economic benefits is misguided, and hurts creative science in Britain. It is signed by 22 persons, including the LMB’s Aaron Klug, Mark Bretscher and Peter Lawrence.
Keywords: John F Allen; Tim Birkhead; Donald Braben; Mark S Bretscher; David Colquhoun; Adam Curtis; funding; Government; Pat Heslop-Harrison; Tony Horsewill; Robert Horwitz; Tim Hunt; Herbert Huppert; Aaron Klug; Roger Kornberg; Harry Kroto; Peter Lawrence; Nobel Prize; Andrew Oswald; David Ray; Richard J Roberts; Ken Seddon; Steve Sparks; Margaret Thatcher; Claudio Vita-Finzi; Eric F Wieschaus
Photographs:Author: Corbyn, Zoë
Title: ‘Publish or perish’ factor in spiralling retractions [Retractions up tenfold]
Reference Times Higher Education, 20 August 2009
Year: 2009
Type: Miscellaneous
Subject: The rate at which scientific journal articles are being retracted has increased roughly tenfold over the last two decades. The article looks at the reasons for the increase. LMB’s Peter Lawrence is quoted.
Keywords: Aubrey Blumsohn; Daniele Fanelli; journals; Peter Lawrence; Harvey Marcovitch; James Parry; publishing; Jan Hendrik Schon; Thompson Reuters; UK Research Integrity Office; Liz Wagner; Peter Williams
Photographs:Author: Connor, Steve
Title: Unlock the secrets of your genes - for £31,000
Reference The Independent, 11 August 2009, pp.8-9
Year: 2009
Type: DNA - Structure
Subject: Article about the falling cost of sequencing the human genome, raising the prospect of an affordable ‘genome for all’. James Watson is mentioned with reference to this; Fred Sanger, Francis Crick and Watson feature in a timeline that accompanies the article.
Keywords: Bill Clinton; Francis Collins; Francis Crick; DNA sequencing; Human Genome Project; NHS; Stephen Quake; Fred Sanger; Craig Venter; James Watson; Craig Venter
Photographs: Stephen Quake; Francis Crick & James Watson with their original model; Fred Sanger; Craig Venter; Francis Collins; James Watson (c. 2000s)Author: Cambridge News
Title: Younger artists imagine the brain
Reference Cambridge News, 22 July 2009, p.15
Year: 2009
Type: Exhibitions
Subject: Year 11 and sixth-form students in Cambridge have created artworks depicting ideas in neuroscience as part of a competition initiated by LMB scientist Harvey McMahon.
Keywords: art; competition; Harvey McMahon; neuroscience; public engagement
Photographs:Author: Cambridge News
Title: Artists paint brainy picture for science
Reference Cambridge News, 30 October 2008, p.5
Year: 2008
Type: Events
Subject: Year 11 and sixth-form students in Cambridge worked with LMB scientists to produce artworks on the subjects “the moral brain” and “what it takes to be human”, as part of a competition run by LMB’s Harvey McMahon.
Keywords: Addenbrookes; art; competition; Gillian Brodie; Maddy Butter; Sarah Campbell; Lucinda Dawkins; Emma Mayoux-Andrews; Harvey McMahon; public engagement
Photographs: Competition winners Emma Mayoux-Andrews, Lucinda Dawkins and Maddy Butter with their entries.Author: Cambridge News
Title: Talk on animal cells
Reference Cambridge News, 3 February 2009, p.16
Year: 2009
Type: Talks
Subject: LMB’s Peter Lawrence is to deliver a lecture on planar cell polarity, hosted by the Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Keywords: Cambridge Philosophical Society; lecture; Peter Lawrence; planar cell polarity
Photographs:Author: Franks, Nicholas P
Title: David Mervyn Blow (1931-2004): Pioneer of Protein Crystallography
Reference Structure, 12 (8), August 2004, p.1353
Year: 2004
Type: Obituaries
Subject: David Blow
Keywords: Appledore, Devon; Biochemical Society; Campaign to Protect Rural England; David Mervyn Blow; Elizabeth [Blow]; Mavis [Blow]; Julian [Blow]; Lawrence Bragg; British Crystallographic Association; Bill Cochran; Francis Crick; French Académie des Sciences; Brian Hartley; protein crystallography; Imperial College; Brian Matthews; Max Perutz; RAF; Alex Rich; Michael Rossmann; Royal College of Science; Royal Society; Paul Sigler; George Thomson; Alan Wonacott
Photographs: David Blow in 1996Author: Press Information Bureau
Title: This Year’s Padma Awards announced
Reference Press Information Bureau (Government of India), 25 January 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: Venki Ramakrishnan chosen for ‘Padma Vibhushan’, India's highest civilian award.
Keywords: Padma Awards; Padma Vibhushan; Venki Ramakrishnan
Photographs:Author: PhysOrg.com
Title: Flash frozen under the electron microscope: Examining the mechanical properties of Alzheimer’s amyloid fibrils
Reference PhysOrg.com, 26 January 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Science
Subject: By using electron microscopic images of flash frozen samples, researchers have now been able to examine the structure of Alzheimer’s amyloid fibrils and to assess their mechanical properties. LMB’s Carsten Sachse was involved in the research
Keywords: Alzheimer’s disease; amyloid fibrils; Angewandte Chemie; Marcus Fändrich; flash frozen samples; Nikolaus Grigorieff; Parkinson’s disease; Carsten Sachse;
Photographs:Author: Inserm
Title: A new line of research in the fight against Alzheimer's disease and dementia
Reference Inserm Press Information, 26 January 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Science
Subject: A team at Inserm, directed by Etienne-Emile Baulieu, has characterised, at the cellular and molecular level, the interaction between the Tau protein and a protein known as FKBP52 which is very abundant in the brain. LMB's Michel Goedert collaborated with Inserm's team on the work.
Keywords: Alzheimer’s disease; Etienne-Emile Baulieu; FKBP52; Michel Goedert; Inserm (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale); Institut Baulieu; Proceedings of the National Academy of Science; Michael Schumacher; Tau protein; Tauopathies; Vivre longtemps foundation (The ”Long Life” Foundation)
Photographs:Author: Akst, Jef
Title: Genetic coding revamp
Reference The Scientist, 14 February 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Science
Subject: Scientists have developed a new genetic language using a ribosome that can read instructions that are 4 base pairs long, enabling the construction of designer proteins containing a variety of unnatural elements. LMB's Jason Chin collaborated on on the research, and is quoted throughout the article.
Keywords: amino acids; Jason Chin; codons; messenger RNA; Tom Muir; Nature; protein synthesis; ribosomes; John Sutherland; transfer RNA
Photographs: Computer-generated scientific illustrationAuthor: American Academy for Microbiology
Title: Newly Elected Fellows
Reference American Academy for Microbiology, [26 February] 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: LMB scientist Andrew Travers is among 78 microbiologists elected to Fellowship in the American Academy for Microbiology. Fellows of the Academy are elected annually.
Keywords: American Academy for Microbiology; Fellows; Andrew Travers
Photographs:Author: Hastings, Michael
Title: Clocking off: the new science of sleep
Reference Varsity, 17 March 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Science
Subject: LMB scientist Michael Hastings writes on what recent discoveries in genetics mean for our sleeping patterns
Keywords: body clock; cancer; circadian; Familial Advanced Sleep Phase Syndrome; Michael Hastings; Michel Siffre; suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN)
Photographs:Author: Curtin, Ciara
Title: Studying the Individual Cell
Reference Genome Technology, GenomeWeb, March 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Science
Subject: A look at the tools and technologies researchers are using to study single cells. LMB’s Paul Dear is among those interviewed.
Keywords: cancer; George Church; Paul Dear; DNA; Human Microbiome Project; David Klug; Roger Lasken; multiple displacement amplification (MDA); NF-kB; polymerase cloning (”ploning”); proteomics; Single Cell Analysis Project; single cells; Ramunas Stepanauskas; Mike White; Steve Wiley; Kun Zhang
Photographs:Author: Macilwain, Colin
Title: MRC Faces Rockier Road Ahead
Reference Cell 140, 5 February 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Funding/Politics
Subject: As Leszek Borysiewicz steps down as the MRC’s chief executive, how will the research council’s structure and focus change amid financial constraints?
Keywords: John Bell; Leszek “Borys” Borysiewicz; Gordon Brown; Cooksey Report; Martin Evans; Medical Research Council; National Health Service (NHS); National Institute for Health Research (NIHR); Imperial College London; LMB-2; Office for Strategic Coordination oh Health Research (OSCHR); Venki Ramakrishnan; Michael Schneider; Swindon; UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation (UKCMRI); Mark Walport; Wellcome Trust
Photographs: Leszek Borysiewicz