MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
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LMB will be showing their ‘Virus Wars: Antibodies Strike Back’ stand at the 2015 Big Biology Day, Saturday 17th October, Hills Road 6th Form College. Come along and find out about viruses and have a go at our pipetting game. This article is no longer available on the host website.
The LMB’s Alexey Amunts has been awarded the 2015 George Palade Award by the Microscopy Society of America for distinguished contributions to the field of microscopy and microanalysis in the life sciences. More…
Barry Bentley, a PhD student in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division, is one of 14 exceptional writers to be shortlisted for the Max Perutz Science Writing Award. More…
Sjors Scheres, LMB group leader, awarded the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society Gold Medal. The KNCV Gold Medal is the highest Dutch award for Chemistry. The award honours Sjors’s major contribution to electron microscopy and structural chemistry, in particular his work in the field of cryo-EM. More…
John Sulston is best known for the leading role he played in the Human Genome Project. But earlier in his career, while working at the LMB, he studied the development of the nematode worm. Sarah Harrop tells the story behind a lab notebook entry which contributed to a Nobel Prize-winning breakthrough. More...
“Move over X-ray crystallography. Electron cryo-microscopy is kicking up a storm by revealing the hidden machinery of the cell” – this Nature News Feature highlights the work of the LMB’s Richard Henderson, Nigel Unwin and Sjors Scheres in developing cryo-EM techniques that are changing the way scientists solve molecular structures. More…