Sjors Scheres’ and Radu Aricescu’s groups have pushed the boundaries of cryo-EM, allowing the technique to detect individual atoms in a protein for the first time. Radu commented, “It was like peeling off a blur over your eyes”. More…
Revolutionary microscopy technique sees individual atoms for first time
Venki Ramakrishnan is elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society
The American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States, was founded in 1743 for the purpose of “promoting useful knowledge”. It is unusual among learned societies because its Membership is comprised of top scholars from a wide variety of academic disciplines. New Members in 2020 include musicians, historians, social scientists, and researchers in the mathematical, physical, and biological sciences. More…
Coronavirus: how the virus works
Science Museum blog: The development of COVID-19 treatments, tests, drugs and vaccines will be accelerated by molecular understanding of the COVID-19 virus. Roger Highfield, Science Director, looks at what is happening in the LMB. More…
Are some people at greater genetic risk from Covid-19? MRC LMB seeks DNA volunteers
Cambridge Independent feature story on Julian Gough’s new phenotype prediction genome data study, which is also exploring whether DNA genotype can be used to predict Covid-19 risk factors. Julian is asking those who have had consumer DNA tests to aid the research by volunteering their data. More…
A splice of life – Chemistry World looks at how structural biology has revealed the secrets of the spliceosome
Clare Sansom describes the history of spliceosome research and its importance, focusing on the work of Kiyoshi Nagai and his group. More…
Is cryo-EM taking over structural biology?
This news story in Nature maps the revolutionary technique’s eventful journey in the structural biology field since 2012-13. Ewen Callaway, on the occasion of the submission of the 10,000th cryo-EM structure in the EMDB, spoke to LMB scientists Richard Henderson and Sjors Scheres. Richard estimates that by 2024, more protein structures will be determined by cryo-EM than by X-ray crystallography. More…