Author: Hartford, Maggie
Title: New research labs open
Reference The Oxford Times, 8 July 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Events/Celebrations
Subject: LMB’s Venki Ramakrishnan to give a speech at the opening of the Research Complex at Harwell (RCaH), a new £26m laboratory in Oxfordshire.
Keywords: Leszek Borysiewicz; Francis Crick; Diamond Light Source; Earth Tube; Harwell; Minister for Universities and Science; Simon Philips; Venki Ramakrishnan; The Research Complex at Harwell (RCaH); James Watson; David Willetts
Photographs:Author: Grove, Jack
Title: Section of access road to be named after DNA scientist
Reference Cambridge News, 9 July 2010, p.9
Year: 2010
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: The access road leading to the LMB-2 building will be named ‘Francis Crick Ave’.
Keywords: Addenbrooke’s Hospital; Cambridge Biomedical Campus; Cavendish Laboratory; Francis Crick; Megan Davies; Francis Crick Avenue; Richard Howe; Nobel Prize; Venki Ramakrishnan; road; Fred Sanger; surveillance cameras; James Watson
Photographs: Francis CrickAuthor: Sinclair, Lulu
Title: Giant New Lens Shows Minutest Of Cells
Reference Sky News, 2 July 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Science
Subject: Scientists at LMB have come up with a giant-lensed microscope to allow them to see the minutest of cells.
Keywords: William [Brad] Amos; Robert Boyle; flea; Mesolens; microscope; mouse embryos; Isaac Newton; Royal Society; Christopher Wren
Photographs: LMB scientist with Mesolens, the microscopeAuthor: Elliot, Chris
Title: City leaves the Other Place in a spin over cycling race
Reference Cambridge News, 14 July 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Miscellaneous
Subject: LMB are one of the top teams competing in a three-week cycle campaign run by Cycle Cambridge to encourage more workers to travel by bike.
Keywords: Ben Hayward Cycles; British Antarctic Survey; Cambridge Corn Exchange; Cambridge Mechatronics; Cycle Cambridge; Mike Davies; Dogfish; Hinxton Hall; Howes Cycles; IUCN; Vanessa Kelly; Open Air Cambridge; Oxford; The Junction; UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre; Wellcome Trust
Photographs:Author: Thomas, Michael
Title: Cambridge beats old rival in Workplace Challenge
Reference Road.cc, 14 July 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Miscellaneous
Subject: Cambridge and Oxford both ran Cycle Challenges. Cambridge managed to persuade more people onto their bikes, with 132 new cyclists compared to Oxford’s 117. The LMB were one of the participating organisations (and one of the top teams).
Keywords: British Antarctic Survey; Cambridge Mechatronics; Cyclox; Mike Davies; Hinxton Hall; IUCN; Richard Mann; Oxford; UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre; Wellcome Trust; Workplace Cycle Challenge
Photographs: King’s College, CambridgeAuthor: Sansom, Clare
Title: Receptive receptors
Reference Chemistry World August 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Science
Subject: One route to developing new drugs is to look at targeting the hundreds of G-protein-coupled receptors that are not currently exploited clinically.
Keywords: G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs); Richard Henderson; Fiona Marshall; Hartmut Michel; Johann Deisenhofer; Robert Huber; Max Perutz; John Kendrew; Stephen White; Krzysztof Palczewski; Tetsuji Okada; Masashi Miyano; Chris Tate; Ray Stevens; Brian Kobilka; Robert Lefkowitz; Gebhard Schertler; Malcolm Weir; Heptares Therapeutics; stabilised receptor (Star) technology
Photographs: 5 scientific imagesAuthor: Adams, Stephen
Title: Body clock pills ‘could cure jet lag and manic depression’
Reference The Telegraph 23 August 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Science
Subject: Team of British and American scientists have found a drug which can slow down, kick start and reset the body clocks of mice.
Keywords: Andrew Loudon; Mick Hastings; circadian rhythms; Pfizer; casein kinase 1
Photographs:Author: Science Daily
Title: Body Clock Drugs Could Ease Psychiatric Disorders and Jet Lag
Reference Science Daily 23 August 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Science
Subject: Researchers have successfully used a drug to reset and restart the natural 24 hour body clock of mice in the lab.
Keywords: Andrew Loudon; Mick Hastings; Pfizer; Travis Wager; circadian rhythm; Janet Allen; Michel Goedert; casein kinase 1
Photographs:Author: Schnabel, Jim
Title: Secrets of the shaking palsy
Reference Nature 26 August 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Science
Subject: Parkinson’s disease might have much in common with Alzheimer’s disease, prion diseases and other protein-aggregation diorders.
Keywords: James Parkinson; Ray Chaudhuri; Michel Goedert; Heiko Braak; Maria Grazia Spillantini: Peter Lansbury; Tim Greenamyre: a-synuclein; Barry Kidston; MPTP; Parkinson’s disease; Gary Miller; Michael J Fox
Photographs: 3 scientific imagesAuthor: Quested, Tony
Title: Cambridge research key to UK economy, says Minister
Reference Business Weekly 13 September 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Event/Celebration; Architecture & Buildings
Subject: As part of a visit to Cambridge, Universities and Science Minister attends the topping out ceremony at the new £200m building for the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge.
Keywords: David Willetts, MP; topping out ceremony
Photographs: New LMB building under constructionAuthor: LifeArc
Title: 1st patient treated with BAN2401
Reference LifeArc 6 September 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Biotechnology Companies
Subject: First Alzheimer’s patient treated with BAN2401, a novel antibody targeting the neurotoxin believed to cause Alzheimer’s disease.
Keywords: BAN2401: Alzheimer’s disease; Tarran Jones; BioArctic Neuroscience AB (Stockholm); Eisai Co. Ltd.; Greg Winter; MRC Technology; Therapeutic Antibody Group (TAG); CDR-grafting; Elan/biogen Idec’s Tysabri; Chungai/Roche’s Actemra; Lars Lannfelt;
Photographs:Author: Edmondson, Karli
Title: ‘Topping out’ of MRC Laboratory in Cambridge
Reference architectnews.co.uk 10 September 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Event/Celebration; Architecture & Buildings
Subject: Work on the RMJM designed new building for MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology reached the first major stage of completion with its topping out.
Keywords: Andrew Lansley, MP: David Willetts, MP; Hugh Pelham; topping out; RMJM
Photographs: Artist impression of the new LMB buildingAuthor: Pain, Elizabeth
Title: Expanding the Genetic Code
Reference Science Careers 17 September 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Biographical
Subject: Scientific biography of Jason Chin and his scientific career to date.
Keywords: Jason Chin; John Sutherland; Alanna Scheparz; Peter Schulz; Anton Cropp: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan; The Scripps Research Institute
Photographs: Jason ChinAuthor: McNally, Jess
Title: Life on Earth May Have Had an Icy Start
Reference Wired Science 21 September 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Science
Subject: A new study adds plausibility to the ‘RNA World’ hypothesis that argues life began with a single stranded molecule capable of self-replication.
Keywords: Philipp Holliger; ice; ribozymes;RNA
Photographs: Picture of iceAuthor: Ehrenberg, Rachel
Title: Life”s cold start
Reference Science News 23 October 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Science
Subject: Frigid cocoons may have incubated earliest replicating molecules.
Keywords: Philipp Holliger; RNA: Charles Darwin; Pierre-Alain Monnard; Jack Szostak; ice; ribozyme
Photographs:Author: Benirschke, Ingrid
Title: Biography captures Sydney Brenner’s unflagging scientific curiosity and lively personality
Reference EurekAlert 23 September 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Book Review
Subject: Review of Sydney Brenner biography.
Keywords: Sydney Brenner; Francis Crick; James Watson; C. elegans; Robert Horvitz; John Sulston; Errol C. Friedberg
Photographs: Sydney Brenner on cover of bookAuthor: AlphaGalileo
Title: Brain cartography: the fly mating dance neurons mapped.
Reference AlphaGalileo 29 September 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Science
Subject: Researchers have mapped neurons of the fruit fly, Drosophila, that controls sexual behavior.
Keywords: Barry Dickson; Jai Yu; Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP); [Greg Jefferis]
Photographs:Author: Kelland, Kate
Title: Scientists find way to refine Botox for new uses.
Reference Reuters 5 October 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Science
Subject: Scientists develop a new way to refine the anti-wrinkle treatment Botox in an effort to improve its use for Parkinson’s, cerebral palsy and chronic migraine.
Keywords: Bazbek Davletov; Clostridium botulinum neurotoxin (Botox);
Photographs: Sample of BotoxAuthor: Gann, Alexander; Witkowski Jan
Title: The lost correspondence of Francis Crick
Reference Nature 29 September 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Biographical
Subject: Newly found letters between the key players in the DNA story.
Keywords: James Watson; Francis Crick; Sydney Brenner; Waclaw Szybalski; Maurice Wilkins; George Gamow; RNA Tie Club; Alexander Rich; Leo Szilard; Gunther Stent: Sol Spiegelman; Seymour Benzer; Charles Yanofsky; Paul Berg; Marianne Grunberg-Manago; Mahlon Hoagland; C.P Snow; Rosalind Franklin; Dorothy Hodgkin; John Randall; William Lawrence Bragg; John Kendrew; Linus Pauling; Peter Wright; D.C. Martin; Cavendish Laboratory; King’s College London; John Griffith;
Photographs: Various photographs including Watson, Crick, Wilkins, Franklin and Brenner (LMB)Author: Exley, Stephen
Title: ‘Flagship institution for science’ looks to future
Reference Cambridge News 21 October 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Funding
Subject: LMB to receive a share of £220 million funding as it is announced that the science budget remain the same for the next four years.
Keywords: Hugh Pelham; Comprehensive Spending Review; Vince Cable, MP; Julian Huppert, MP; David Willetts, MP;
Photographs: David Willetts on the balcony of the new LMB, at the topping-out ceremonyAuthor: Lane, Thomas
Title: Laboratory of Molecular Biology: Master of science
Reference Building.co.uk 29 October 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Architecture & Buildings
Subject: MRC’s new chromosome-shaped lab in Cambridge is an example of how attention to detail and planning can deliver complex buildings on time and on budget.
Keywords: Jim Power; David Julian; Salk Institute; Adams Kara Taylor; Colin Moses; John Risley; BAM;
Photographs: 8 images of the constructionAuthor: Sample, Ian
Title: Immune discovery opens up new line of attack against viruses
Reference The Guardian 1 November 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Science
Subject: The immune system found to target viruses inside cells, suggesting new strategies against infections including the common cold and winter vomiting bug.
Keywords: Leo James; TRIM21; Greg Winter; rotavirus; rhinovirus; proteasome; Proceedings of the National Academy of sciences
Photographs:Author: Connor, Steve
Title: A cure for the common cold may finally be achieved as a result of a remarkable discovery in a Cambridge laboratory.
Reference The Independent 2 November 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Science
Subject: Scientists able to show for the first time that the body’s immune defences can destroy the common cold virus after it has invaded the inner sanctum of a human call.
Keywords: norovirus; rotavirus; Leo James; TRIM21; Greg Winter; rhionvirus; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Photographs: Image of virus and antibodies in the bloodstreamAuthor: Peck, Tom
Title: Tom Peck: Yet another triumph for the place they call ‘the Nobel Prize factory’
Reference The Independent 2 November 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Nobel Prize
Subject: The lab got its 14th Nobel award last year. It traces its roots back to the discovery of the DNA double helix.
Keywords: Francis Crick; Jim Watson; Max Perutz; Gisela Perutz; Fred Sanger; Richard Henderson; John Sulston; Sydney Brenner; Robert Horovitz; John Kendrew
Photographs:Author: BBC News
Title: Virus breakthrough raises hope over ending common cold.
Reference BBC News 2 November 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Science
Subject: Scientists say they have made a landmark discovery which could pave the way for new drugs to beat illnesses like the common cold.
Keywords: Leo James; TRIM21; Greg Winter; winter vomiting; PNAS
Photographs: Video image of virus