Author: Jyoti Madhusoodanan
Title: Smart microscopes spot fleeting biology
Reference Nature 9 Febuary 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Science
Subject: Automated microscopes that adapt to each sample’s quirks can capture elusive biological phenomena at high resolution
Keywords: Robert Prevedel Microscope Kate McDole Brain Embryo Mouse
Photographs:Author: UKRI News
Title: Common heartburn drugs could speed up tuberculosis treatment
Reference UKRI news
Year: 2023
Type: Science
Subject: Over-the-counter heartburn drugs could shorten the treatment of tuberculosis (TB) and reduce the chances of the bacteria that causes TB becoming drug resistant
Keywords: Heartburn drugs TB Lalita Ramakrishnan Drug
Photographs:Author: University of Cambridge News
Title: Rare genetic disease may protect Ashkenazi Jews against TB
Reference University of Cambridge 06 February 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Science
Subject: Scientists may have solved the question of why Ashkenazi Jews are significantly more susceptible to a rare genetic disorder known as Gaucher disease – and the answer may help settle the debate about whether they are less susceptible to tuberculosis
Keywords: Jews Gaucher Tuberculosis Zebrafish Lalita Ramakrishnan Macrophages
Photographs: Cambridge UniversityAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: Method by which HIV-1 harvests a product of our cells to infect us is uncovered by research led by MRC LMB in Cambridge
Reference Cambridge Independent 20 January 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Science
Subject: An extraordinary finding about the HIV-1 virus could lead to the design of new small molecules to prevent infection.
Keywords: HIV-1 Leo James AIDS
Photographs: Keith HeppellAuthor: Adam Levy
Title: The age-old problem of telomere maintenance
Reference Nature Portfolio
Year: 2023
Type: Biography: Awards& Prizes
Subject: Kelly Nguyen is the 2022 winner of the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators. She is a Group Leader at the LMB. She spoke to Adam Levy about her pioneering work on the structure and function of telomerase, and its vital role in everyday cell function and disease
Keywords: Eppendorf Kelly Nguyen Telomerase DNA Chromosones
Photographs: EppendorfAuthor: The Biologist
Title: Interview with Dr Madeline Lancaster
Reference The Biologist 28 September 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Biography
Subject: Developmental biologist Dr Madeline Lancaster discusses how she almost accidentally created cerebral organoids, and the fascinating insights they are revealing about what makes the human brain special
Keywords: Madeline Lancaster Cerebral organoids Stem cells Brain
Photographs: Lancaster labAuthor: TED Talks
Title: A virus-resistant organism -- and what it could mean for the future
Reference TED 31ST October 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Talks; Speeches
Subject: A TED talk about breakthrough science, synthetic biologist Jason W. Chin describes his team's work rewriting the genetic blueprint of cells to create a virus-resistant organism
Keywords: DNA Genetic blueprint virus resistant Synthetic genome Jason Chin
Photographs:Author: Paul Brackley
Title: Microscopes4Schools winner prove small really is beautiful.
Reference Cambridge Independent 20 July 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Awards & Prizes; Science
Subject: University of Cambridge Primary school has won the Microscopes4Schools competition. The competition aims to encourage scientific curiosity in children
Keywords: Microscopes Brad Amos Winners University of Cambridge Primary school Kings Oak Primary School Ridgefield Primary School
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Joan Heath
Title: Joan Heath interviews Suzanne Cory and Joan Steitz: a female perspective of science in the swinging ‘60s
Reference The company of Biologists May 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Biography; Science
Subject: An interview with Joan Stietz and Suzanne Cory. They discuss there careers and experiences in Science and new new challenges for women in science in a post pandemic world.
Keywords: Joan Heath Suzanne Cory Joan Steitz PhD tRNA
Photographs: Mark BretscherAuthor: Federation of European Biochemical Societies
Title: The FEBS open bio article prize 2022
Reference Federation of European Biochemical Societies 18 February 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Awards & Prizes; Science
Subject: Sofia Lovestam has won FEBS bio articles prize. It’s awarded to PhD or Post Doc researchers who have published a paper of special interest within 5 years of receiving their PhD
Keywords: FEBS PhD Seeded assembly
Photographs: LMB MRCAuthor: Istvan Hargittai
Title: A unique venue of discoveries in structural chemistry and structural biology: the 75‐year and 60‐year jubilees of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology—a personal tribute
Reference Structural Chemistry September 2021
Year: 2021
Type: History-LMB
Subject: In 1962, the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, moved into a new building and continued a success story that had begun 15 before. Milestone discoveries and Nobel Prizes have followed ever since. They have led to profound changes in our basic ideas about the nature of life and the way medicine operates. Structural chemistry has paved the way for this unprecedented progress.
Keywords: Structural biology Helix structures Watson and Crick Richard HendersonHargittais
Photographs: HargittaisAuthor: Andrew Travers
Title: Cooperating geonomes
Reference Cambridge University Press 03 February 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Science
Subject: The essence of biological complexity is communication – a transmission of information between the component parts of an association. But what is the nature of this information and how do genomes co-operate to form a complex web?
Keywords: Mycelia Mycorrhizal fungus Fungi
Photographs:Author: Venkat Gopalan
Title: Tribute to Sidney Altman
Reference A publication of the RNA society 16 September 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Obituary
Subject: Tribute dedicated to Sidney (Sid) Altman, one of the veritable architects of modern RNA research. Sid is widely known as the co-recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, an honor shared with Tom Cech for the discovery of catalytic RNA
Keywords: Nobel prize Chemistry Sidney Altman
Photographs:Author: Paul Brackley
Title: Five researchers join EMBO
Reference Cambridge Independent 13 July 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Events & Celebrations; Science
Subject: 5 Cambridge researchers have been among 58 new members of the Molecular Biology Organisation. Among them is Dr Madeline Lancaster from the LMB
Keywords: EMBO Dr Madeline Lancaster Cerebral Organoids Stem cells Menna Clatworthy
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: Winners from Microscopes4Schools Science Image Award revealed
Reference Cambridge Independent 22 December 2021
Year: 2021
Type: Science; Awards & Prizes
Subject: Duxford Community Church of England Primary School have the Microscopes4Schools competition for its an image of a pansy.
Keywords: Microscopes Duxford Community Church of England Primary School Whinhills Primary Academy Histon & Impington Brook Primary School
Photographs:Author: Paul Brackley
Title: Exhibition room opens at MRC LMB
Reference Cambridge Independent 14 July 2021
Year: 2021
Type: Archive; Science
Subject: An exhibition room has been launched by the LMB director. Visitors will be able to learn about LMB history and its current research.
Keywords: electron cyromicroscopy sample holders cryo-EM
Photographs:Author: Katy Pallister
Title: Ultrastructure of growing neurons in lab-grown brain 'organoids' revealed with fluorescence and electron microscopy combination
Reference Biomedical Picture of the day- MRC 7 December 2021
Year: 2021
Type: Science
Subject: Structure of growing neurons
Keywords: Nervous system Axon Electron cryo-tomography
Photographs: MRCAuthor: Nicoletta Lanese
Title: Scientists reprogrammed bacteria to be immune to viruses
Reference Live Science 03 June 2021
Year: 2021
Type: Science
Subject: Scientists created a synthetic genome for a bacterium by stringing together building blocks of DNA — and the new genome made the microbe immune to viral infection.
Keywords: E.coli Bacteria Wesley Robertson Amino Acids DNA Chromosones TCG TCA
Photographs: W. RobertsonAuthor: Stephen Kearsey
Title: Larissa Wakefield obituary
Reference The Guardian 20 October 2020
Year: 2020
Type: Obituary
Subject: Larissa Wakefield, who has died aged 61, after being diagnosed with a brain tumour, was a naturalist, scientist and potter. She had a highly successful research career both before and after a 10-year break, during which she devoted herself to bringing up children and running a pottery.
Keywords: Larissa Wakefield; Pottery; Sir John Gurdon; Parkinson's disease
Photographs: Stephen KearseyAuthor: MRC
Title: Did life emerge in the ‘‘primordial soup’’ via DNA or RNA? Maybe both
Reference Cambridge Network 04 June 2020
Year: 2020
Type: Science
Subject: The research, led by scientists from Laboratory of Molecular Biology, shows for the first time how some of the building blocks of both DNA and RNA could have spontaneously formed and co-existed in the 'primordial soup' on Earth.
Keywords: DNA RNA
Photographs:Author: Linton M. Traub, Frances M. Brodsky
Title: Ernst Joachim Ungewickell: 1950-2020
Reference Journal Of Cell Biology Vol.219; No.011
Year: 2020
Type: Obituary
Subject: Ernst, contributor to our knowledge of intracellular transport coats, died in Hanover on 19 August, 2020. He spent a year at the MRC in 1982
Keywords: Ernst Ungewickell Germany Branton Laboratory: Barbara Pearse
Photographs: Ernst UngewickellAuthor: Chemistry World
Title: the weirdness of water; Cryo EM detector will produce better data with less energy.
Reference Chemistry World April 2020
Year: 2020
Type: Science
Subject: An new project aims to lower the energy requirements for cryo- electron microscopy studies and make the technique more accessible for U K researchers
Keywords: Cryo- EM Richard Henderson Chris Russo Jan Lowe
Photographs:Author: Paul Brackley
Title: Steroids ‘can improve outcomes outcomes for sickest coronavirus patients’
Reference Cambridge Independent 22 September, 2020
Year: 2020
Type: Science
Subject: The survival chances for severely ill Covid patients are improved by treating them with the steroid hydrocortisone, research involving Cambridge University Hospitals has shown.
Keywords: SARS-Cov-2 REMAP-CAP Hydrocortisone
Photographs: LMBAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: Nobel Prize Winning work that has changed lives across the work
Reference Cambridge University 20 February 2019
Year: 2019
Type: Science
Subject: Greg Winter won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in recognition of his work on antibodies. He realised they all have the same basic structure, with only small changes making them specific for one target. This discovery led to antibody therapies for cancer and diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis, which have changed the lives of patients across the world- we hear from four people who worked with and benefitted from Greg's discoveries.
Keywords: Greg Winter; Theresa Langford; Antibodies;
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Mark Terry
Title: Women’s History month: 10 Women Biopharma Pioneers
Reference Biospace 18 March 2019
Year: 2019
Type: History-LMB
Subject: 10 female pioneers in Biotechnology share their experiences
Keywords: Rosalind Franklin
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