MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
One of the world's leading research institutes, our scientists are working to advance understanding of biological processes at the molecular level - providing the knowledge needed to solve key problems in human health.
Rebecca Taylor will be giving a talk at the UTC Cambridge as part of the Cambridge Science Festival. In her talk entitled, ‘Finding the fountain of youth: why we age and what we can do about it’, Rebecca will explain how her lab are using worms to understand how the nervous system coordinates the ageing process, and how it controls the health of cells as we get older. More…
Thursday 23rd March: 6:00pm – 7:00pm, UTC Cambridge, Robinson Way, CB2 0SZ
Brad Amos will be giving a talk at the UTC Cambridge as part of the Cambridge Science Festival. In his talk entitled, ‘Life through a lens’, Brad will show spectacular new 3D images of mouse embryos, possible due to his development of the Mesolens that achieves unparalleled resolution throughout a volume hundreds of times greater than a conventional microscope. More…
20 March: 6:00pm – 7:00pm, UTC Cambridge, Robinson Way, CB2 0SZ
The 16th annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences will be awarded to Joachim Frank, Richard Henderson, and Marin van Heel for pioneering developments in electron microscopy that are transforming structural studies of biological molecules and their complexes. More…
Leo James and Michel Goedert, group leaders at the LMB, recently published work in PNAS providing an explanation for how therapeutic antibodies eliminate pathogenic forms of tau protein. Here, Alzforum explore the background, results and implications of this study. More…
Cambridge Neuroscience, of which the LMB is a part, plays a key role in coordinating dementia research across the large and diverse community of neuroscientists in Cambridge, helping scientists and clinicians work together. The organisation has produced a new film describing some of the progress now being made against this devastating disease, including commentary from Michel Goedert, group leader in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division, who discovered how tau fibres twist together to form tangles, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s, a type of dementia. More…
Linear ubiquitin chains whose very existence once was debated, now are known to play a critical role in an inflammatory disease, thanks to the discovery of an enzyme. David Komander’s group from the LMB are amongst a group of scientists researching the enzymes of the ubiquitin system, which has already shown how mutations in the gene for OTULIN, an enzyme belonging to the OTU family of deubiquitinases, cause a rare systemic inflammatory disease. More…