Author: Fulton Gillespie
Title: Dementia research gets big cash boosts
Reference Cambridge Evening news 2nd September 1988
Year: 1988
Type: Funding;
Subject: Cambridge Scientists have teamed up with international drug giant ICIin £300,000 partnership aimed at beating dementia.
Keywords: Future; Families; Dementia; Tangled nerve fibres;
Photographs: MRC-LMBAuthor: Cambridge news
Title: Firm uses city research in. id for cancer cure
Reference Cambridge News 2nd Feb 1988
Year: 1988
Type: MRC- History
Subject: A possible cure for some cancers, based on pioneering research is being put on trail. It is based on the work of Dr Cesar Milstien at the LMB.
Keywords: Cesar Milstien; Greg Winter; Antibodies; Cancer Cure;
Photographs:Author: Fulton Gillespie
Title: Centrally directed research ‘wont work’
Reference Cambridge Evening news 14th July Friday 1989
Year: 1989
Type: Funding
Subject: Threats to scrap the MRC- LMB. The proposals came from a business dominated review body. It’ll be responsible for overseeing and funding of all scientific research.
Keywords: Perutz; Nobel prizes; Klug;
Photographs:Author: Clive Cookson
Title: Big prizes in small packages
Reference Financial Times 19th October 1989
Year: 1989
Type: MRC- History
Subject: New ways of making antibodies developed independently by British and American Scientists promise to increase the scope of the biotechnology industry.
Keywords: Antibodies; Greg Winter
Photographs:Author: The Independent
Title: Antibody achievement
Reference The independent 28th March 1988
Year: 1988
Type: MRC- History
Subject: Cambridge Scientists have invented a new kind of disease and cancer fighting molecule, partly human in origin and partly in rats
Keywords: Greg Winter; Antibody; Rats
Photographs:Author: The Times
Title: Advance in ‘magic bullet’ technology
Reference The Times 24th March 1988
Year: 1988
Type: Science
Subject: Scientists at the LMB have made an advance in using monoclonal antibodies to target and deliver effective drugs against tumours
Keywords: Monoclonal anitibodies; mice; rat; magic bullets; Greg Winter
Photographs:Author: Rodger Highfield
Title: Science’s pioneers in peril
Reference Daily telegraph 23rd September 1987
Year: 1987
Type: Funding; MRC- History
Subject: British Science is under threat by proposals to create a 3 tier university system for research.
Keywords: Nobel prize winner; Perutz; Type T;
Photographs: Tony EllisAuthor: Yorkshire Post
Title: New vaccine hope in fight against AIDS
Reference Yorkshire Post 11th September 1987
Year: 1987
Type: Science
Subject: A new hope in the fight against AIDS has come from leading AIDS researcher Max Perutz. A prototype vaccine may be developed within a year.
Keywords: AIDS; Vaccine; Perutz;
Photographs:Author: Cambridge Evening News
Title: Lab staff evacuate building in scare
Reference Cambridge Evening news 18th December 1987
Year: 1987
Type: History
Subject: 500 staff were evacuated from the LMB in scare after a chemical leak. The drama began when a highly reactive organic chemical broke inside a fridge.
Keywords: Acryloyl Chloride; Fumes; Chemical
Photographs:Author: Rodger Highfield
Title: Brain’s two routes down memory lane
Reference Daily Telegraph 6th October 1997
Year: 1997
Type: Science
Subject: Evidence that the brain uses two different mechanisms to lay down memories has been found. Dr Hilmar Bading told a conference about his findings in Italy
Keywords: Brain; Conference; Brading; Calcium; Memory Lane
Photographs:Author: The Daily Telegraph
Title: Mutant flies hatch clues to cancer
Reference The Daily Telegraph 17th June 1998
Year: 1988
Type: Science
Subject: Dr Freeman has bred fruit flies at the LMB. He will explore the role that cell signalling plays in cancer when cells grow out of control
Keywords: Dr Freeman; Dr Bienz; Fruit flies; Colon cancer
Photographs:Author: Cambridge Evening News
Title: Scientists set up firm to sell ideas
Reference Cambridge Evening News 18th June 1990
Year: 1990
Type: Science; Technology Transfer
Subject: Cambridge scientists have set up their own company to sell antibodies. Cambridge Antibody Technology Ltd (CAT) will commercially exploit the recent rat-human antibody which can kill cancer cells. The new company will also aim to market new discoveries for anti cancer drugs and anti-viral drugs.
Keywords: CAT Sir Aaron Klug; Dr Winter; Monoclonal antibodies; Protein
Photographs:Author: Robin McKie
Title: UK leads in £6bn antibodies race
Reference The Observer 4th October 1992
Year: 1992
Type: Science
Subject: UK Scientists believe they have achieved an important lead over US competitors in the race to patent techniques which use bacteriophages- genetically engineered microbes- to make antibodies
Keywords: Antibody; monoclonal; proteins; bacteriophages
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Photographs:Author: Nature Times
Title: Close heat in t-RNA race
Reference Nature Times news
Year: 1968
Type: Science
Subject: American scientists ahead of the LMB in a race to discover the structure of a transfer- RNA. The knowledge is expected to reveal much about how the molecules perform their delicate task in living cells.
Keywords: Transfer RNA; Wisonsin’ X-Ray; Protein
Photographs:Author: Dr Peter Stubbs
Title: Visualizing giant molecules
Reference New Scientist 30th December 1965
Year: 1965
Type: Science; MRC- History
Subject: At a conference scientists faced the difficulties of extending to more complex molecules, the techniques of structure analysis that have already been applied to simpler proteins and comparable biological molecules.
Keywords: J. Kendrew; X-Ray; Cystallopgraphers
Photographs:Author: The Yorkshire Post
Title: Scientist who ‘died’ wins Nobel prize
Reference The Yorkshire Post November 1962
Year: 1962
Type: Prizes & Awards; MRC- History
Subject: A soviet scientist has been awarded a Nobel prize for Physics. The Chemistry prize was awarded to Max Perutz and John Kendrew. Both prizes are worth £17,739.
Keywords: John Kendrew; Max Perutz; PIonner; Ice Expert
Photographs:Author: Pearce Wright
Title: International control of research safety standards urgently needed, Nobel Prize winner says.
Reference The Times 3rd March September 1974
Year: 1974
Type: Science; MRC-History
Subject: The state of genetic engineering techniques was likened by Sir Kendrew giving presidential address to the British Association for Advancement of Science’s meeting at Stirling University to the situation in nuclear physics.
Keywords: Genetic engineering; Sir John; Nobel prize; Nuclear physics; Atomic bomb
Photographs:Author: Peter Newmark
Title: Prizes (at last)for Immunnology
Reference News and Views
Year: 18th October 1984
Type: Prizes &Awards; Science
Subject: Ceasar Milstein wins this years Nobel prize. It comes less than 10 years after monoclonal antibodies, already produced commerically as diagnostic reagents.
Keywords: Ceasar Milstein ; monoclonal antibodies
Photographs:Author: Paul Brackley
Title: ‘Not in my wildest dreams’- Dr Jan Lowe on being appointed director of MRC LMB
Reference Cambridge Independent 7th February 2018
Year: 2018
Type: Science; MRC- General
Subject: Dr Jan Lowe is excited and humbled to made the new director of the LMB.
Keywords: Nobel prize factory; Hugh Pelham; DNA
Photographs: Jan Lowe- MRC LMBAuthor: Nicola Davis
Title: Briton wins chemistry Nobel for new enzymes
Reference The Guardian 04.10.2018
Year: 2018
Type:
Subject: British biochemist Sir Greg Winters is among 3 other scientist who have won the Nobel prize in Chemistry for their work in harnessing evolution to create new enzymes and antibodies.
Keywords: Greg Winters; Enzymes; Antibodies;
Photographs:Author: Cambridge News
Title: Pupil’s city art display
Reference Cambridge news 15th December 2010
Year: 2010
Type: MRC-General
Subject: Four Painting’s by Mu-Chun Chiang will be on display at the MRC Neuroscience Unit in Cambridge. Mu-Chung hopes her work will go on show for the MRC Microbiology Unit opening in 2012.
Keywords: Ley’s; Painting’s; MRC Microbiology; Brain
Photographs:Author: MRC Network
Title: Out of Focus; A little less conservation, A little more science
Reference MRC Network
Year: 2010
Type: Memoir
Subject: Memoir of Jerry Lingrels sabbatical
Keywords: Gurdon; John Lingrell;
Photographs: Dan DavenportAuthor: Cambridge Evening News
Title: CAT’s losses rocket to £6.4m
Reference Cambridge Evening News 29th May 1997
Year: 1997
Type: Biotechnology & Technology Transfer
Subject: Cambridge Antibody technology has announced hugely increased losses of £6.4 m in 6 months. Half the losses were due to the £2.9m paid in shares to the MRC in return for rights to jointly developed technology.
Keywords: CAT; Antibody
Photographs:Author: Fulton Gillsespie
Title: Breakthrough in medical Science
Reference Cambridge Evening News 6th December 1990
Year: 1990
Type: Science
Subject: Cambridge Scientists have scored a spectacular world first in antibody technology
Keywords: Andrew Griffiths; Greg Winter; Antibody; Cambridge Antibody Technology
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