Study by Madeline Lancaster and collaborators at IMBA is one of the first attempts to combine organoids with bioengineering. More…
Building better brains: A bioengineered upgrade for organoids
A new view of the spliceosome
Kiyoshi Nagai’s group capture important state of cellular machine responsible for making humans more complex than worms. More…
Mo Moffateh’s winning science image
Mo Moffateh’s image of beautifully repeated segments of Drosophila melanogaster embryonic nervous system, picked as joint third in British Society for Cell Biology’s 2017 winning images. More…
Soul of a Molecular Machine: A Conversation with Venki Ramakrishnan
Conversation with Venki Ramakrishnan: “We’re at the threshold of a new age of structural biology, where these things that everybody thought were too difficult and would take decades and decades, are all cracking”. More…
LMB staff are cycle enthusiasts
The LMB won the National Cycling Challenge for the 200-499 employees category in 2016, with the team cycling 9,969 miles in the month of September! The LMB has now received the prize – a cycle repair station for all staff to use. More…
Wojciech Galej receives Early Career Research Award from the Biochemical Society
Wojciech Galej has been awarded the 2018 Early Career Research Award for Molecular Structure and Function by the Biochemical Society. Wojciech has made outstanding contributions to the understanding of the molecular mechanism of pre-mRNA splicing through his structural analysis of the spliceosome and its components using X-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy. More…