Author: Allen, Rachel
Title: City Lib Dems out to lunch with minister
Reference Cambridge News 4 October 2012
Year: 2013
Type: Architecture and Buildings
Subject: Business Secretary Vince Cable visits the new LMB building while in Cambridge
Keywords: Vince Cable; Julian Huppert; Liberal Democrat; building
Photographs: Vince Cable with Julian HuppertAuthor: Cambridge News
Title: Nobel Prize medal under the hammer in NYC
Reference Cambridge News 11 April 2013
Year: 2013
Type: Miscellaneous
Subject: Francis Crick’s Nobel medal to be sold at auction in New York
Keywords: Francis Crick; auction; Crick Family Trust; The Eagle; James Watson; letter; Nobel medal; New York
Photographs:Author: Thomson, Alice
Title: Wake up, Royal Institution. Smell the coffee. Put Costa and Carluccio’s on the ground floor, then concentrate on the serious science
Reference The Times 23 January 2013
Year: 2013
Type: Biography
Subject: Alice Thomson grand daughter of W.L. Bragg discusses her childhood at the Royal Institution and what it needs to do in the future
Keywords: Costa coffee; Carluccio’s; Royal Institution; Max Perutz; W.H. Bragg; James Watson; W.L. Bragg; Albemarle Street
Photographs:Author: The Times
Title: MPs can thwart a disabling disease
Reference The Times 21 March 2013
Year: 2013
Type: Miscellaneous
Subject: Letter from Nobel laureates including John Sulston calling on the Government to legalise ‘three-parent IVF”
Keywords: Mitochondria; IVF; Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA); John Sulston; “batteries”; Letter
Photographs:Author: MRC Network
Title: Join the great worm watch
Reference Network Autumn 2013
Year: 2013
Type: Science
Subject: Centenary ‘citizen science’ project, Worm Watch Lab, asks for people to take part online
Keywords: Centenary; worm watch, c. elegans; William Schafer; Andre Brown; Zooniverse; ‘citizen scientists’; nematode worms
Photographs:Author: Childs, Martin
Title: Professor Michael Neuberger - Biochemist behind life-saving work on the immune system
Reference The Independent 2 November 2013
Year: 2013
Type: Obituary
Subject: Obituary for Michael Neuberger, from The Independent.
Keywords: Michael Neuberger; César Milstein; George Köhler; AID; lymphocytes; Cristina Rada; “deamination”; therapeutic antibodies
Photographs:Author: UCL News
Title: Smart neurons: single dendrites can perform computations
Reference UCL News 28 October 2013
Year: 2013
Type: Science
Subject: A study at UCL, LMB’s Tiago Branco and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, succeeded in making incredibly challenging electrical and optical recordings directly from the tiny dendrites of neurons in the intact brain while the brain was processing visual information
Keywords: dendrites; computation; Michael Hausser; neurons; bursts of spikes; “toolkit”
Photographs: Image shows a direct patch-clamp recording from a dendrite of a pyramidal cell in mouse visual cortex in the intact brain.Author: Macrae, Fiona
Title: Botox jab could ease arthritis and cancer with out side effects: Single injection could offer pain relief for months
Reference Mail Online 30 October 2013
Year: 2013
Type: Science
Subject: Bazbek Davletov designs drug that took the pain-relieving part of Botox and ‘stapled’ it to a friendly part of a similar poison produced by the tetanus bug. The tetanus toxin ferries the pain reliever to the spinal cord, where it stops pain signals being sent to the brain.
Keywords: Bazbek Davletov; Botox; botulinum; tetanus; neurological disorders; ‘super-Botox’; pain relief; Migraine
Photographs:Author: Highfield, Roger
Title: Did life on Earth have very cold beginnings?
Reference The Telegraph 11 November 2013
Year: 2013
Type: Science
Subject: The new flavours of genetic information and life without pre-existing call may lead to a dramatic surge in the possibilities for living things
Keywords: icy origins; abiogenesis; Goldilocks; Philipp Holliger; “RNA world”; evolution; sub-zero temperatures; xenonucleic acids (XNA); HNA; TNA; “artificial cells’
Photographs: Image of Double HelixAuthor: Vargas, Lautaro
Title: Cambridge blockbusters and 100 Years of the MRC
Reference Cabume 13 November 2013
Year: 2013
Type: Architecture and Buildings
Subject: Exactly one hundred years ago, the UK government of the day established an organisation to take care of medical research on behalf of the 1911 National Insurance Act
Keywords: one hundred years; National Insurance Act; tuberculosis; the Queen; £212m; Cambridge Biomedical Campus; ‘Nobel Prize Factory’ biotechnology; Humira; Cambridge Antibody Technology (CAT); AstraZeneca
Photographs: Ariel view of new labAuthor: Wright, Pearce
Title: Fred Sanger obituary. Nobel prizewinning biochemist whose pioneering work on insulin and DNA transformed the field of genetics
Reference The Guardian 20 November 2013
Year: 2013
Type: Obituary
Subject: The biochemist, Fred Sanger, a former Head of the LMB’s PNAC Division, has died aged 95. He had the rare distinction of winning the Nobel Prize twice, in 1958 and 1960
Keywords: Fred Sanger; Obituary; Insulin molecule; gene therapy; virus Phi X 174; Sanger Sequencing Method; Human Genome Project; Frederick Gowland Hopkins; AC Chibnall; Archer Martin; Richard Synge; Sanger’s reagent; Bart Barrell; Alan Coulson; George Brownlee; base sequences; mitochondria; Sanger Institute
Photographs: Fred with DNA modelAuthor: Gallagher, James
Title: Fredrick Sanger: Double Nobel Prize winner dies at 95
Reference BBC News 20 November 2013
Year: 2013
Type: Obituary
Subject: The BBC looks at the life and work of Fred Sanger, including an interview with former LMB colleague, John Walker
Keywords: Fred Sanger; obituary; “farther of genomics”; amino-acids; Sanger sequences; insulin; John Sulston; John Walker; bases; genetic code
Photographs:Author: Lamble, Kate
Title: Sniffing Pheromones
Reference The Naked Scientist 26 November 2013
Year: 2013
Type: Science
Subject: Smell is important to allow us to taste our food, and can even trigger memories. But in some animals, special molecules called pheromones can also trigger certain types of behaviour, such as mating. Kate Lamble spoke to Greg Jefferis who investigates the pathways between smell and behaviour in the fruit fly
Keywords: Pheromones; Greg Jefferis; olfactory epithelium; smell; fruit flies; receptor genes; cva cis-Vaccenyl Acetate; Darren Logan; smelly t-shirt; androstenone; Ginny Smith
Photographs:Author: Patel, KJ
Title: Michael Neuberger obituary
Reference The Guardian 1 December 2013
Year: 2013
Type: Obituary
Subject: Biochemist who discovered how antibodies are greatly improved
Keywords: Michael Neuberger; Sydney Brenner; B lymphocytes; César Milstein; Georges Kohler; monoclonal antibodies; Greg Winter; therapeutic humanised antibodies; somatic hypermutation; microbes; immune system; Julian Sale; AID; Cristina Rada
Photographs:Author: Fersht, Alan. R.
Title: Profile of Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel, 2013 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry
Reference PNAS 6 December 2013
Year: 2013
Type: Biography
Subject: 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The beginnings of the science and its immediate impact, a personal account from a close by-stander Alan Fersht.
Keywords: Michael Levitt; Arieh Warshel; Martin Karplus; Alan Fersht; W.P Jencks; John Kendrew; X-ray crystallography; CHARMM; ENCAD; pancreatic trysin (BPTI); Shneior Lifson; lysozyme
Photographs: Images of Michael Levitt; Martin Karplus; Arieh Warshel (not LMB pictures)Author: McPherson, Gareth
Title: Students from Cambridge Regional College, Sawtry Community College, Netherhall and Bottisham Village College demonstrate the art of science.
Reference Cambridge News 16 December 2013
Year: 2013
Type: Exhibitions
Subject: The winners of the 2013 competition on “The Changing Brain” were recently awarded their prizes.
Keywords: The changing brain; adolescence; Layla Barnes; Sawtry Community College; Lewis Stipic; Vitruvian Man; Jasmine Parker; Techno Hood; Kornelija Bulaityte;Cambridge Regional College; Gulsah Kaya; Netherhall School; Bottisham Village College; Nachiket Kashikar; “teenage brain”, Imagining the Brain; neurotechnology; KPMG Schools Science Communication Award
Photographs: Exhibition winnersAuthor: Penrose; Adrian
Title: The 12 days of the MRC Centenary
Reference MRC Insight 19 December 2013
Year: 2013
Type: Events and Celebrations
Subject: Throughout 2013 MRC have celebrated the past, present and future. for its Centenary Highlights included the opening of the new LMB building
Keywords: MRC Centenary; Adrian Penrose; Max Perutz Science Writing Award; David Willetts MP; Centenary Poll; Stephen Fry; Open Week; John Savill; Wiki edit-a-thon; Worm Watch Lab; The Queen; Duke of Edinburgh
Photographs: The Queen looking into microscopeAuthor: Walker, John
Title: Frederick Sanger (1918-2013) Double Nobel-prizewinning genomics pioneer
Reference Nature 2 January 2014
Year: 2014
Type: Obituary
Subject: Article, written by Professor Sir John Walker, who worked with Sanger at the LMB, describes him as “happiest at the laboratory bench, where he worked tirelessly and single-mindedly”
Keywords: Fred Sanger; ‘the father of genomics’; insulin; amino acids; sequencing; ‘ladders’
Photographs:Author: Maddox, Brenda
Title: The dark lady of DNA?
Reference The Observer 5 March 2000
Year: 2000
Type: History - Reminiscences
Subject: Rosalind Franklin is seen as the ‘Sylvia Plath of science’, a wronged heroine robbed of fame by male jealousy and cut-throat intrigue. But did she really win the race to track DNA?
Keywords: Rosalind Franklin; Maurice Wilkins; James Watson; “forgotten scientist”; Professor John T. Randall; X-ray crystallography; King’s College London; Birkbeck; Max Perutz; Cavendish Laboratory; The Double Helix; Sylvia Plath; Aaron Klug
Photographs: Rosalind Franklin (Science Photo Library)Author: MRC News
Title: Redirecting the rules of attraction in fruit flies
Reference MRC News 19 December 2013
Year: 2013
Type: Science
Subject: Greg Jefferis group have discovered a biological switch that determines which part of the fruit fly’s brain responds to pheromones, depending on whether it is male or female.
Keywords: Fruit fly; pheromones; Greg Jefferis; cVA; ‘fruitless’ gene; Hugh Perry; biological switch; brain wiring
Photographs:Author: MBS, Modern Building Services
Title: The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Reference MBS 6 February 2014
Year: 2014
Type: Architecture and Buildings
Subject: Further details of how the LMB’s new building is kept running to meet the needs of the LMB’s scientific community
Keywords: new building; Cambridge Biomedical Campus; £212 million; paired chromosomes; interstitial service voids; Matt Nockolds; Stephen Holmes; HVAC system; 2400 VAV units; electricity meters; rotary heat exchangers; chillers; fan-coil units; boilers; ‘intelligent building’; atrium
Photographs: Matt Nockolds and Stephen Holmes, Outside of new building; atriumAuthor: University of Cambridge
Title: The LMB: past, present and future....
Reference University of Cambridge 17 February 2014
Year: 2014
Type: Historical - LMB History
Subject: The University has now taken over the old Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) buildings from the MRC
Keywords: ‘Block 7’; Clifford Allbutt Building; ‘Unit for Research on the Molecular Structure of Biological Systems’; Cavendish Laboratory; Department of Physics; Max Perutz; John Kendrew; Jim Watson; Francis Crick; Venti Ramakrishnan; Clinical School; Richard Henderson; Paul Luzio
Photographs: Original LMB building; Richard Hederson and Paul Luzio with the renamed old LMB Building.Author: Luke, Adam
Title: Mental health training programme earns national recognition for two Cambridgeshire organisations
Reference Cambridge News 25 February 2014
Year: 2014
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: A training project to raise awareness of mental health issues at work has earned national recognition for Mind in Cambridgeshire and the MRC
Keywords: Mental Health First Aid (MHFA); ‘wellbeing champions’; Mel Nunn; Amie Blake; Alison Turnock; Mind in Cambridgeshire; award
Photographs: Amie Blake; Alison Turnock; Mel Nunn and Mel Nunn out the front of the LMB buildingAuthor: Jaques, Helen
Title: Comprehending Protein Complexes
Reference AcademiaNet 19 March 2014
Year: 2014
Type: Science
Subject: Interview with Lori Passmore discussing her work on complex multi-protein structures.
Keywords: Lori Passmore; enzymatic mechanisms; yeast; eukyaryotes; Fanconi anaemia; leukaemia; bone marrow; Poly(A); “cleavage and polyadenylation factor” (CPF); Ccr4-Not; cryo-EM: David Barford; Venki Ramakrishnan
Photographs: Lori Passmore in lab (MRC picture)Author: University of Oxford
Title: Matthew Freeman to be awarded Novartis Medal and Prize
Reference Sir William Dunn School of Pathology 2 April 2014
Year: 2014
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: Matthew Freeman, former Head of Cell Biology, now Head of Sir William Dunn School of Pathology in Oxford, is to receive the Novartis Medal and Prize from the Biochemical Society in 2015
Keywords: Matthew Freeman; Novartis Medal and Prize; Biochemical Society conference; regulated proteolysis; membrane trafficking; signal transduction; developmental cell biology
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