Author: Cambridge Independent
Title: Kelly Nguyen earns Colworth Medal
Reference Cambridge Independent, 19 April 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Awards and prizes
Subject: Kelly Ngyuyen awarded the Colworth medal by the Biochemical Society 2024
Keywords: Kelly Ngyuyen Colworth Medal Biochemical Society Kiyoshi Nagai Telomeres
Photographs: Kelly Nguyen LMB group photoAuthor: Mike Scialom
Title: Bicycle therapeutics and Novarts in $1.7bn cancer remedies goal
Reference Cambridge Independent 5 April 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Biotechnology company
Subject: Bicycle Therapeutics collaboration with Novartis to discover and develop multiple targeted radiogand therapies in oncology
Keywords: Bicycle Therapeutics Novartis Oncology Greg winter Christian Heinis
Photographs: Kevin lee (CEO)Author: Paul Brackley
Title: TB treatment time could be slashed by heartburn drugs
Reference Cambridge Independent 08 February 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Science
Subject: Heartburn drugs could shorten treatment of TB
Keywords: Lalita Ramakrishnan TB Heartburn
Photographs: Lalita Ramakrishnan MRC LMBAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: Brown fat breakthrough could aid obesity and diabetes
Reference Cambridge Independent 7 June 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Alumni; Science
Subject: Significant breakthrough made in search for treatments for obesity and diabetes.
Keywords: Paul Brackley Brown fat Diabetes Edmund Kunji
Photographs:Author: Cambridge Independent
Title: Alzheimers’s award for LMB scientist
Reference Cambridge independent 22 February 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Awards and prizes; Science
Subject: Benjamin won Alzheimer’s award in 2022 for outstanding research in neurodegenerative diseases
Keywords: Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon Alzheimer’s Neurodegenerative Award
Photographs: Keith HeppellAuthor:
Title: First map of insect larva brain is a ‘landmark achievement’
Reference Cambridge Independent 15 March 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Science
Subject: The first map to show every neuron in the brain of fruit fly larva and how they are wired as been created by LMB scientists.
Keywords: Fruit Fly Marta Zlatic Albert Cardona Brain
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: LMB pays tribute to Teresa
Reference Cambridge Independent 25 January 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Archive; Obituary
Subject: The funeral of Teresa Wallman, the archive assistant from the LMB takes place at St Lawrence Roman catholic Church, Cambridge.
Keywords: Teresa Wallman Archive assistant Funeral
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: £6m electron microscope at MRC Laboratory of molecular Biology in Cambridge among governments £103m world Class Labs investment
Reference Cambridge independent 19 May 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Science; Politics
Subject: Cryro electron Microscope that enables proteins to be seen in atomic detail has been installed as part of £103m government investment
Keywords: Cryo-electron microscope Jan Lowe Secretary of State Chloe Smith
Photographs: Keith Heppe;Author: Paul Brackley
Title: LMB discovery over receptors could change neuroscience
Reference Cambridge independent 6 April 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Science
Subject: Receptors play a critical role in mediating signals in our brains ensuring proper function of the CNS
Keywords: Receptors Central Nervous system Neurobiology GABA
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Cambridge Independent
Title: Cambridge researchers dominate Microbiology Society 2023 Prizes
Reference Cambridge Independent, 30 November 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Science; Awards & prizes
Subject: Cambridge researchers have won 3 of the 6 prestigious awards from the microbiology Society. Group Leader of Structural studies Dr Tanmay Bharat won the 2023 Fleming prize.
Keywords: Microbiology Society Dr Tanmay Bharat Fleming prize HIV Covid-19
Photographs: MRC-LMB Cambridge UniversityAuthor: Mike Scialom
Title: Constructive Bio gets $15m to ‘write genomes from scratch’
Reference Cambridge Independent 17 August 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Technology Transfer; Science
Subject: Constructive Bio are producing synthetic genomes and reprogramming the genetic code of living organisms. It has launched with the $15m in seed investment.
Keywords: Constructive Bio $15 Million Professor Jason Chin Genetic code
Photographs: Keith HeppellAuthor: Cambridge Independent
Title: LMB researcher wins Eppendorf Award for young scientists following breakthroughs
Reference Cambridge independent 27 July 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Awards and prizes; Science
Subject: Kelly Nguyen group leader of Structural Studies has won the Eppendorf award for her postdoctoral research on the spliceosome and the role of telomeres in human diseases.
Keywords: Kelly Nguyen Telomere Spliceosome Award Cryo-EM
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Paul Buckley
Title: LMB determines structures of filaments found in parkinson’s
Reference Cambridge independent 28 October 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Science
Subject: Filaments that form in the brains of individuals with Parkinson's and Dementia with lewy bodies have been made. They used Cyro-EM to determine the structure of the filaments.
Keywords: Filaments Parkinson’s Dementia Lewy bodies Cyro-EM Alpa-synuclein
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Clive Cookson
Title: Cambridge start up aims to rewrite the code of life
Reference Financial Times 14 August 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Biotechnology and technology transfer; Science
Subject: Spin out company Constructive Bio set up by Jason Chin will rewrite the genetic code of bacteria, enabling the microbes to make new materials, from drugs to biodegradable plastics.
Keywords: Constructive Bio Genetic code Jason Chin Reprogramming DNA Microbes
Photographs: Jason ChinAuthor: Paul Buckley
Title: Synthetic Organisms created using new genetic language
Reference Cambridge independent 2 November 2022
Year: 2022
Type: DNA-Structure; Science
Subject: The first synthetic organism to use a different genetic language to the rest of life on earth has been created. The achievement represents a new paradigm that protects engineered organisms from natural invaders.
Keywords: Synthetic Organisms DNA RNA Genetic code
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: MRC LMS institute news
Title: Holgar karmer obituary
Reference MRC LMS Institute News 23 September 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Obituary
Subject: Dr Holger Kramer died suddenly on 23 August 2022. He was appointed head of Mass Spectrometry at the LMB after leaving Mass spectometry for 5 years at LMS.
Keywords: Mass Spectrometry London Institute of Medical Sciences Proteomics Facility Holger Kramer
Photographs:Author: Adrian Peel
Title: Pioneering scientist dies at 87
Reference Cambridge Independent 27 July 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Obituary
Subject: Former group leader Dr Andrew McLachlan has passed away at the age of 87.
Keywords: Dr Andrew McLachlan Trinity college Group Leader
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Lee Makowski
Title: Crystalloprapher who defined rules of virus structure
Reference Physics Today Collection 6 January 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Obituary
Subject: Donald Casper defined the rules that govern self assembly of simple viruses This laid the foundations for a new way of thinking about the molecular systems that regulate and drive all living cells.
Keywords: Donald Casper Viruses DNA RNA Protiens
Photographs: AIP EMILO SEGRE VISUAL ARCHIVESAuthor: Cambridge Independent
Title: TB research pioneer joins LMB division
Reference Cambridge Independent 23 February 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Biography
Subject: A pioneer researcher renowned for her work on Tuberculosis has joined the LMB cell division as a group leader.
Keywords: Lalita Ramakrishnan Tuberculosis Zebrafish Cell
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: The day the Queen received insight into LMB research
Reference Cambridge Independent 13 September 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Media Events; History- LMB; Visitors; Science
Subject: The death of the Queen brings back fond memories of her visit to the LMB in 2013
Keywords: Queen Duke of Edinburgh LMB
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Paul Buckley
Title: Tributes to long-serving research assistant
Reference Cambridge independent 28 September 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Obituary
Subject: Tributes made to John Jarvis, a former research assistant who served at the LMB for nearly 40 years died at the age of 80.
Keywords: Tributes John Jarvis Assistant PNAC Division Immunoglobulin
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Paraminder Dhillon., Eleni Skourti., Lori A. Passmore
Title: In conversation with Lori Passmore
Reference The FEBS Journal 15 March 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Science; Biography
Subject: An Interview with Lori Passmore, discussing her work as a group leader at the LMB.
Keywords: Protiens RNA DNA Cryo-EM
Photographs: LMB MRCAuthor: The company of Biologists
Title: Interview with the 2023 Hooke medal winner Andrew Carter
Reference Journal of Cell Science
Year: 2023
Type: Science; Biography
Subject: Andrew carter in interview discussing his achievements, research and his career.
Keywords: BSCB Hooke Medal Cell Biology Structural Biology Group leader
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Disease Models & Mechanisms
Title: Refinfing tuberculosis: an interview with Lalita Ramakrishnan
Reference Disease Models & Mechanisms 23 March 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Science; Biography
Subject: An interview with Lalita. She discusses her research on TB using zebrafish.
Keywords: Lalita Zebrafish Macrophages
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Miryam Naddaf
Title: Gigantic map of fly brain is a first for a complex animal.
Reference Nature news 10 March 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Science
Subject: Fruit fly ‘connectome’ will help researchers to study how the brain works, and could further understanding of neurological diseases.
Keywords: Fruit fly Neurological diseases Synapses Drosophila Connectome
Photographs: Eye of Science/Science Photo library