The Scrip Awards provides the industry with an opportunity to acknowledge and applaud its highest achievers across all parts of the value chain, and to recognise both corporate and individual achievement. This article is only available in full to subscribers: https://scrip.pharmaintelligence.informa.com/SC064082/A-Life-In-Genes-Scrip-Award-Winner-Sir-Gregory-Winters-Speech
Greg Winter receives Scrip’s Lifetime Achievement Award
Coffee & tea session with Prof. Daniela Rhodes
Before joining Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in September 2011, Professor Daniela Rhodes spent her whole research career at the world-renowned MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge UK. More…
Z is for Zebrafish
The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge’s connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, Z is for Zebrafish as we talk to eminent immunologist Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan, group leader in the University Research Unit at the LMB, about her research into new ways of treating tuberculosis. More…
Molecular clocks control mutation rate in human cells
New research suggests that cancer and ageing could be predetermined by the speed of molecular clocks. This collaborative project includes work by LMB group leader Julian Sale. More…
Researchers grow brain parts to study development, disease
Dozens of labs are growing lumps of human brain tissue – brain organoids – for study, including LMB’s Madeline Lancaster. Scientists say the technology holds great potential for studying the roots of diseases like autism and schizophrenia, testing possible treatments and tackling basic questions about evolution. More…
Science Minister tours “extraordinary” MRC Molecular Biology Lab
Universities and Science Minister Jo Johnson visited the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge last week to see first-hand some of the exciting research carried out there and to learn about the institute’s close relationship with industry. More…