Author: Highfield, Roger
Title: Second British ‘brain drain’ scientist wins Nobel Prize
Reference Daily Telegraph, 14 October 1993
Year: 1993
Type: Nobel Prize
Subject: Michael Smith wins Nobel Prize
Keywords: Kary Mullis; Richard Roberts; Michael Smith; Greg Winter; Jurassic Park
Photographs: Michael SmithAuthor: Cambridge News
Title: Immigration cap ‘will deter scientists’
Reference Cambridge News 8 November 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Politics
Subject: Nobel prize winner Venki Ramakrishnan has warned that the cap on immigration will cost Britian the services of some of the world’s top scientists.
Keywords: Immigration cap; Venki Ramakrishnan; ribosome; visa controls; migrant cap
Photographs: Venki RamakrishnanAuthor: Ford, Richard
Title: Migration cap would have kept out my prize-winning team, says Nobel scientist
Reference The Times 6 November 2010, p.38
Year: 2010
Type: Politics
Subject: Government migration cap will cost Britain the services of some of the world’s top scientists according to Nobel prizewinner, Venki Ramakrishnan
Keywords: Venki Ramakrishnan; immigration cap; visas; Theresa May, MP; Home Secretary; ribosome; non-EU migrants; non-EU students;
Photographs: Venki Ramakrishnan and his lab teamAuthor: Cambridge News
Title: Topping out ceremony for molecular biology lab
Reference Cambridge News 14 September 2010, p.24
Year: 2010
Type: Events/Celebrations; Architecture & Buildings
Subject: New Cambridge research centre has been described as inspirational by a top lawyer
Keywords: Elizabeth Jones; Hewitsons; Biomedical Campus; Cancer Research UK; the Wellcome Trust; University College London; topping out
Photographs: Hewitsons property, construction and planning teams at the LMB building site.Author: Grove, Jack
Title: A cure for the common cold? Cambridge’s world-famous scientists make breakthrough
Reference Cambridge News 2 November 2010, pp. 1 & 5
Year: 2010
Type: Science
Subject: A cure for the common cold and other viruses could be developed thanks to groundbreaking research at a Cambridge laboratory
Keywords: common cold; gastroenteritis; winter vomiting virus; Leo James; TRIM21; Greg Winter
Photographs: Leo JamesAuthor: Henderson, Mark
Title: Keep Britain open to best researchers, say scientists. Nobel winners condemn immigration curbs
Reference The Times 7 October 2010, p.1
Year: 2010
Type: Politics
Subject: Britain’s future as a centre of scientific excellence is threatened by the Government cap on immigration, Nobel prize-winning researchers warn.
Keywords: immigration; Vince Cable; Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR); non-EU; Sir Paul Nurse; Sir Tim Hunt; Sir Martin Evans; Sir Harry Kroto; Sir John Walker; Sir John Sulston; Professor Andre Geim; Professor Konstantin Novoselov; Sir Mark Walport; Imran Khan; James Watson; Hans Krebs; Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS); visas; migration; Venki Ramakrishnan; Premier League footballers
Photographs:Author: EMBO
Title: Jan Löwe wins EMBO Gold Medal 2007
Reference EMBO encounters. Autumn/winter 2007/2008
Year: 2007/2008
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: Jan Löwe awarded the EMBO Gold Medal in Barcelona, Spain.
Keywords: Jan Lowe; Max Planck Institute; Robert Huber; Linda Amos; FtsZ; MreB; prokaryotic; Jeff Errington; Max-Perutz Prize; bacterial cytoskeleton; Philip Leverhulme prize
Photographs: Jan Löwe and Hermann Bujard at the EMBO Gold Medal Award Ceremony (tinted blue)Author: MRC Network
Title: Adieu to the Centre for Protein Engineering
Reference MRC Network September/October 2010, p.6
Year: 2010
Type: Historical - MRC
Subject: Pioneering MRC research unit focused on the structure, stability and activity of proteins and engineering of antibodies is closing after 20 years
Keywords: Professor Sir Alan Fersht; CPE; Sir Greg Winter; Cambridge Antibody Technology; AstraZeneca; p53
Photographs: Professor Sir Alan FershtAuthor: The Times, Eureka 100
Title: Winner of the great gene race
Reference The Times Eureka 100 October 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Biographical
Subject: John Sulston, pioneer of the Human Genome project included on the Eureka 100 list (at no. 6) of most important contemporary figures in British science
Keywords: John Sulston; Bill Clinton; Craig Venter; Caenorhabditis elegans; nematode worm; Sir Paul Nurse; genome; DNA
Photographs:Author: The Times Eureka 100
Title: Greg Winter. Medicines specialist
Reference The Times Eureka 100 October 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Biographical
Subject: Greg Winter included on the Eureka 100 list (at No. 46)of most important contemporary figures in British science.
Keywords: Herceptin; Humira; monoclonical antibodies; Sir Greg Winter
Photographs:Author: The Times Eureka 100
Title: Fred Sanger. Double Nobel laureate
Reference The Times Eureka 100 October 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Biographical
Subject: Fred Sanger included on the Eureka 100 list (at No. 22) of most important contemporary figures in British science.
Keywords: Fred Sanger; amino acid; insulin; DNA; human genome; Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Photographs:Author: Cambridge News
Title: Science is the brains behind art
Reference Cambridge News 13 August 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Exhibitions
Subject: Art meets science in a striking exhibition from Cambridgeshire school pupils.
Keywords: Imagining the brain; Verity Miller; Mind Maps; diversity and disorder; Taalib Minhas; Between You and Me; Seeing the Difference; Nathalie Kantaris-Diaz; Max Street; Megan Rich; Mu-Chun Chiang; Harvey McMahon; Yvonne Vallis
Photographs: Winners and runners up from exhibition and some of their work.Author: Short, Ben
Title: Sean Munro: Revealing the Golgi’s true identity
Reference JCB 10 January 2011
Year: 2011
Type: Science
Subject: Interview with Sean Munro about his work and his targets for the future.
Keywords: Sean Munro; Golgi; Hugh Pelham; TMDs; golgins; epitope tagging; heat-shock proteins; microdomains; lipid rafts; transmembrane domin (TMD); Tom Maniatis
Photographs: Picture of Sean, picture of Sean with Golgi model, picture of golgin giantin and Golgi stacksAuthor: Duncombe, Tracey
Title: Building on a legacy in antibody research
Reference BBSRC 14 January 2011
Year: 2011
Type: Biotechnology Companies
Subject: Babraham Research Campus has recently attracted some of the most exciting new generation antibody companies in Europe.
Keywords: Therapeutic antibodies; Jonathan Howard; Geoff Butcher; Cesar Milstein: monoclonal antibodies; Marianne Bruggemann; Maia; Michael Wakelam; Mark Doran; Alpha Biologics; Kymab; Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute; Bicycle Therapeutics; Recombinant Antibody Technologies; Crescendo Biologics; Andrew Sandham; Mike Taussig; Michael Neuberger; Sir Greg Winter; Bioenterprise Lecture; Derek Jones; Klaus Okkenhaug; Anne Corcoran; Martin Turner; RNA;
Photographs:Author: A*Star, Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Title: Exploit Technologies Presents Serial Entrepreneur, Sir Greg Winter, with Distinguished Technopreneur Speaker Award
Reference A*Star 19 January 2011
Year: 2011
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: Sir Greg Winter receives the distinguished tecnopreneur speaker award from Exploit Technologies
Keywords: Sir Greg Winter; Philip Lim; HUMIRA; Cambridge Antibody Technology; AstraZaneca; Domantis; GlaxoSmithKine; Bicycle Therapeutics; Herceptin; Avastin; Genentech; Prix Louis Jeantet de Medicine
Photographs:Author: Arnaud, Celia
Title: Light Turns On Caged Enzyme Biology: Illuminating a kinase bearing unnatural lysine reveals cell-signaling cascade
Reference Chemical and Engineering News 9 February 2011
Year: 2011
Type: Science
Subject: An unnatural amino acid has given researchers a switch to turn on a specific enzyme with light.
Keywords: Jason Chin; Arnaud Gautier; Alexander Deiters; adenosine triphosphate (ATP); MEK1; Dario R. Alessi; kinase phosphorylates; lysine; illumination
Photographs: Picture showing the effect of the ‘on switch’Author: Drahl, Carmen
Title: Spin-Offs: Meet The Structure Specilists
Reference Chemical & Engineering News 14 March 2011
Year: 2011
Type: Science
Subject: Heptares Therapeutics helps push GPCR drug discovery forward
Keywords: Brian K. Kobilka; Raymond C. Stevens; Christopher G. Tate; ConfometRx; GPCR; Scripps Research Institute; Stanford; Michael A. Hanson; T4 Lysozyme; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Heptares Therapeutics; Receptos; Eli Lilly & Co; Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals; Richard Henderson; StarRs; Fiona H. Marshall; Andrew Tebben; Novartis
Photographs:Author: Science2Day
Title: Scientists ‘give botox a facelift’ to improve use for Parkinson’s
Reference Science2Day 5 January 2011
Year: 2011
Type: Science
Subject: Researchers have a method of refining Botox that will enable it to be improved to use in treatment for diseases such as Parkinson’s, cerebral palsy and chronic migraine.
Keywords: Clostridium botulinum neurotoxin type A (Botox); Parkinson’s; cerebral palsy; chronic migraine; Bazbek Davletov
Photographs:Author: Marshall, Michael
Title: Biologists create self-replicating RNA molecule.
Reference New Scientist 7 April 2011
Year: 2011
Type: Science
Subject: tC19Z, synthesised in Phil Holliger's lab, could be a version of one of the first enzymes that ever existed on our planet and a clue to how life itself got started.
Keywords: tC19Z; Philipp Holliger; RNA; R18
Photographs:Author: Nature
Title: Molecular biology: No DNA needed, RNA goes solo
Reference Nature 13 April 2011
Year: 2011
Type: Science
Subject: Researchers have engineered an RNA enzyme to synthesise another active RNA enzyme from an RNA template.
Keywords: Philipp Holliger; tC19Z; R18; ribozyme; RNA
Photographs:Author: Waters, Hannah
Title: Andrew Carter: Dynein Trailblazer
Reference The Scientist 1 May 2011
Year: 2011
Type: Biographical
Subject: A look and Andrew Carter’s career and the work that he is currently involved in.
Keywords: Andrew Carter; University of California (UCSF); Ron Vale; corgi; Venki Ramakrishnan; mRNA; Dynein; Samara Reck-Peterson; 30S;
Photographs: Portrait picture.Author: Fletcher, Victoria
Title: Doctors Find Genetic Defect That Triggers Blood Cancer
Reference Express 2 May 2011
Year: 2011
Type: Science
Subject: A defect which triggers blood cancers has been identified by British scientists, giving hope to thousands of sufferers
Keywords: Dr David Grant; Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research; bone marrow disorder; SDS; Dr Alan Warren; ribosomopathy; Acute myeloid leukaemia; myelodysplastic syndrome;
Photographs: Scientist looking at test tubes.Author: Henderson, Mark
Title: 75th stories: Sir John Sulston and the Human Genome Project
Reference Wellcome Trust 5 May 2011
Year: 2011
Type: Science; Historical - LMB History
Subject: To mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Wellcome Trust a look at people have been significant in its history, with an piece looking at Sir John Sulston.
Keywords: Sir John Sulston; Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute; The Human Genome Project; Bob Waterston; Eric Lander; Francis Collins; Caenorhabditis elegans; Cancer; Renato Dulbecco; Robert Sinsheimer; US Department of Energy; US National Institutes of Health (NIH); The Human Genome Project (HUGO); Washington University; Fredrick Bourke; Aaron Klug; Bridget Oglvie; Michael Morgan; Hinxton Hall; Sanger Centre; Sir Fred Sanger; Baylor; MIT; Craig Venter; Celera; Norton Zinder; PerkinElmer; Vesalius; Mike Stratton; Plexxicon; BRAF; Roche; SNP Consortium; HapMap; genome-wide association study (GWAS); FTO; Plavix; Peter Donnelly; University of Oxford
Photographs: Sir John Sulston in the lab. Sir John Sulston at the private viewing of exhibits from the DNA 50 Imagine Photographic Competition displayed at the Two Ten Gallery. A scientist examining the hybridisation pattern to a DNA microarray.Author: Quested, Tony
Title: Cambridge biomedical campus may expand again
Reference Business Weekly 18 May 2011
Year: 2011
Type: Events/Celebrations
Subject: Developers of exciting new Cambridge Biomedical Campus at the Addenbrooke’s complex have unveiled plans for potential new building.
Keywords: Liberty Property Trust; Countryside Properties; Andrew Blevins; Biomedical Campus; Jeanette Walker; Addenbrooke’s, Papworth Hospitals; CRUK Cambridge Research Institute; Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Sir Keith Peters; Cambridge University Health Partners; Rosie Hospital; Papworth Hospital
Photographs: Jeanette Walker with chief guests at dinner to discuss future development. Artist impression of new building.Author: Business Weekly
Title: MRC Scientists in Cambridge Honoured
Reference Business Weekly 20 May 2011
Year: 2011
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: Dr Sean Munro and Dr Andrew McKenzie receive top honours.
Keywords: Sean Munro; Fellow of the Royal Society; Andrew McKenzie; Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences; asthma
Photographs: Portrait of Sean Munro & portrait of Andrew McKenzie.