Author: Brenda Maddox
Title: Our DNA heritage goes on block
Reference The Daily Telegraph 5th February 2003
Year: 2003
Type: Science; MRC-History
Subject: An Archive of British scientific documents could return home from California if the British Library or collector can meet the price.
Keywords: Jeremy Norman; Molecular Biology; Max perutz; Francis Crick; Aaron Klug; Christies
Photographs:Author: News & Views
Title: Crystals to grow bigger
Reference Nature 21 September 1968
Year: 1968
Type: Science
Subject: Klug and other scientists have been able to crystalize a species of transfer RNA.
Keywords: RNA; Crystals; proteins; X-Ray
Photographs:Author: {Reuter}
Title: Two Britons win share of Nobel prize
Reference The Times 18.10.1962
Year: 1962
Type: Science; Prizes & Awards
Subject: Crick and Watson have been awarded this year’s Nobel prize for heredity research.
Keywords: Crick; Wtason; Nobel; Code
Photographs:Author: Cell tech
Title: Queens Award
Reference Cell tech MRC News June 1985
Year: 1985
Type: Prizes & Awards
Subject: It was announced in April that the Queens award for technological achievement has been given to cell tech for its work in establishing a production process for mono-clonal antibodies
Keywords: Queens Award; Cell tech; alpha interferon
Photographs:Author: Freya Leng
Title: City to host a science debate
Reference Cambridge News 28 June 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Science
Subject: 12 top female scientists will compete for attention at the Soapbox science event in Cambridge’s market square.
Keywords: Soapbox event; Nicola Symyllie
Photographs:Author: Paul Brackley
Title: LMB’S Sofia earns award for amyloid work
Reference Cambridge Independent 13th March 2024
Year: 2024
Type: Prizes & Awards; Science
Subject: Post doc Sofia is one of the winners for the Harold M Weintraub graduate student award for new treatments for neurodegenrative diseases
Keywords: Amyloid filaments Sofia Lovestam
Photographs: LMB MRCAuthor: Tony Quested
Title: Cambridge startup Outsee LTD aims to uneaarth new drug target with its AI geonomics tech
Reference Business weekly 13th March 2024
Year: 2024
Type: Science; Biotech & Technology Transfer
Subject: Dr Julian Gough has founded Outsee Ltd to exploit large scale geonomics datasets by using it proprietary AI geonomics technology for novel frug target discovery and validation
Keywords: AI; Julian Gough; geonomic data; BioMedTech; Chang Lu
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Mark Henderson
Title: Nobel prizewinner Venki Ramakrishnan warns on risks of immigration cap
Reference The Times 06.11.2010
Year: 2010
Type: Science
Subject: Venki took 40% pay cut due to new Visa immigration cap
Keywords: Immigration cap Venki; ribosome
Photographs: Chris HarrisAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: Greg becomes joint head of LMB’s Neurobiology Division as connectomics grow
Reference Cambridge Independent 11th October 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Science
Subject: Greg Jefferies joins Anna Bertolottias jpint head of the Neurobiology division. Greg aims to link genes, neural circuits and behaviour in the fruit fly.
Keywords: Connectomics; Drosaphila;
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: LMB welcomes new electron microscope under labs new funding
Reference Cambridge Independent 17th May 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Science; Funding
Subject: New electron microscope, enables proteins to be seen in atomic detail has been installed as part of a £103 million investment across a host of leading UK science institutions
Keywords: Cryro-electron microscope; goverment investment; Sjors Scheres; Secretary of state
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: New era of lower cost, lower energy cyro-EM ushered in by LMB.
Reference Cambridge Independent 29th November 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Science; Funding
Subject: Cyro- EM has already revolutionised the study of biological structures. the new microscopes was built at a fraction of the multi billion pound cost and size of current models by overturning conventional thinking about their operation.
Keywords: cyro- EM; microscope; Chris Russo
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Chris Elliot
Title: Bioscience pioneer is new master of Trinity
Reference Cambridge news 17 December 2011
Year: 2011
Type:
Subject: Sir Greg Winter has been picked as the new master of Trinity college
Keywords: Greg Winter; Trinity; pioneer; Master
Photographs:Author: Nature
Title: Thomas Authur Steitz Lunchtime Science
Reference Nature
Year: 2011
Type: Interview
Subject: An Interview with Thomas, a biophysicist from Yale University who spent some time at the LMB shares the 2009 Nobel prize in Chemistry for the knowledge of the structure and function of the ribosome
Keywords: Yale University; Nobel prize; Ribosome; HIV DNA polymerase; Antibacterials
Photographs:Author: Rachel Allen
Title: Taking on mother of all marathons
Reference Cambridge News 9th November 2011
Year: 2011
Type: Events; Science
Subject: LMB Scientist runs marathon in Athens for Alzheimer’s research UK
Keywords: Philippa Smith; Athens marathon; Alzheimer’s research UK;
Photographs:Author: Mike Scialom
Title: It’s a new day for Sosei Heptares
Reference Cambridge Independent 2018
Year: 2018
Type: Technology Transfer
Subject: The pharamceutical firm Heptares was officially opened last week. It was founded in 2007 by Chris Tate and Richard Henderson.
Keywords: Sosei Heptares; GPCR; Chris Tate; Richard Henderson
Photographs: Keith HeppellAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: Life in the lab
Reference Cambridge Independent 3rd October 2018
Year: 2018
Type: Public Engagement
Subject: Lifelab comes to inspire young people in Cambridge and Peterborough. Pop up labs and hands on activities were at the Grand Arcade and the Grafton,
Keywords: Life lab; Dr Kenneth Skeldon; Public engagement;
Photographs: Keith HeppellAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: Fred Sanger: The father of geonomics
Reference Cambridge Independent 22nd August 2018
Year: 2018
Type: Science
Subject: 100 years on from Fred Sanger’s birth, one of the greatest scientists ever lived for the study of Geonomics
Keywords: Geonomics; Insulin; Glucose; DNA; Diabetes;
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: Cambridge Scientists launch £100 million investment fund
Reference Cambridge Independent 5th September 2018
Year: 2018
Type: Funding
Subject: Lord Martin Rees, Sir Greg Winters, and Sir Venki Ramakrishnan inventions and technolgies have been valued at £100 billion. A fund of £100b will help build the next wave of billion-dollar companies working at the instersection of tech and science
Keywords: Lord Martin Rees, Sir Greg Winters, Sir Venki Ramakrishnan; Blue chip;
Photographs: Sir Cam; MRC LMB; Keith HeppellAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: Capturing Life through a microscope
Reference Cambridge Independent 25th July 2018
Year: 2018
Type: Public Engagement
Subject: Winner of school image competition-Impington and Histon take the hot spot with an image of a leaf skeleton
Keywords: Histon and Impington; Leaf skeleton; Mayfly Snake skin
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: Talking CAT and the former stable that smelled of goats
Reference Cambridge Independent 25th July 2018
Year: 2018
Type: Biotechnology & Tech Transfer
Subject: Sir Greg has created Cambridge Antibody technology, the company behind the best selling drug for arthritis Humira
Keywords: Cambridge Antibody technology; Therapeutics
Photographs:Author: Paul Brackley
Title: The centre stepping up the fight against cystic fibrosis
Reference Cambridge Independent 25 April 2018
Year: 2018
Type: Science;
Subject: £10Million Cystic Fibrosis Innovation hub in Cambridge aims to find new treatments for those with the condition.
Keywords: Cystic Fibrosis; Andreas Floto; CFTR Moon shot
Photographs:Author: Paul Brackley
Title: Changing our machinery inside cells
Reference Cambridge Independent 7th March 2018
Year: 2018
Type: Science
Subject: How new insights into how key proteins in our bodies has earned Madan Babu a Blavanik Award
Keywords: Madam Babu; GCPR’s; Blavanik Award;
Photographs: Keith HeppellAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: Why alcohol increases your chance of developing cancer
Reference Cambridge Independent
Year: 2018
Type: Science
Subject: LMB scientists have showed that alchohol damages stem cells- causing permanent damage to DNA.
Keywords: Alcohol; Acetaldehyde; DNA
Photographs:Author: Robert R. Kay1, Cornelis J. Weijer
Title: Jeffrey G. Williams (1948-2022): a pioneer molecular biologist in development
Reference Development 03.10.2022
Year: 2002
Type: Obituary
Subject: Jeff williams who died earlier this year who became molecular biologist. In 1994 he was recruited as founding member of LMCB at UCL London.
Keywords: embryology; Dictyostelium;
Photographs:Author: Paul Brackley
Title: Magnetic attraction brings her LMB
Reference Cambridge Independent 27.01.2018
Year: 2018
Type: Science
Subject: LMB finds space for a new NMR equipment. Sir Hugh Pelham accepted the proposal
Keywords: Astrazeneca; NMR; Blue Skies
Photographs: Keith Heppell