Hundreds of academics and students lined up to welcome their new Master at a historic ceremony inside the walls of Trinity College yesterday. Sir Gregory Winter [former Deputy Director of the LMB] knocked at the college’s Great Gate carrying Letters Patent from the Queen… This article is no longer available from the source website: Cambridge News 3 October 2012
Traditional greeting as Master arrives in style
Many Proteins Exist in a State of ‘Disorder’ and Yet Are Functional
You mention that in the biomedical community disorder is associated with disease. Your co-author M. Madan Babu of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge has written about this connection… More…
Celebrating 100 years
It’s not often that you get to celebrate a 100th birthday, but the MRC will be doing just that in 2013 […] Look out for coverage of the opening of the new MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) building in Cambridge. Three years in the building, at a cost of more than £200m, this stunning new state-of-the-art research facility officially opens its doors in early summer 2013… More…
Alcohol by-product destroys blood stem cells
Scientists at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology have found that stem cells in the body’s ‘blood cell factory’ – the bone marrow – are extremely sensitive to the main breakdown product of alcohol, which causes irreversible damage to their DNA… This article is no longer available from the source website: Cambridge News 30 August 2012
Students embrace the art of science
Young artists from across Cambridgeshire have combined science with art for an annual creative challenge. Organised by Cambridge’s prestigious Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC-LMB), the Imagining the Brain project is an open exhibition designed to encourage students across the county to communicate scientific concepts through art… This article is no longer available from the source website: Cambridge News 24 August 2012
Synthetic ‘Upgrade’ for fruit fly’s DNA
The genetic code of the fruit fly Drosophila has been hacked into, allowing it to make proteins with properties that don’t exist in the natural world. […] Jason Chin at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge… More…