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Science Weekly podcast: Growing mini-brains in the lab

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In this week’s science podcast from The Guardian, Madeline Lancaster is interviewed to find out about the mini human brains that she and her group are growing in the lab. More…

Published on 14th May, 2018

‘Mini-brains’: understanding brain growth and disease

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Philip Ball, science writer at The Guardian, has had a ‘mini-brain’ grown from a sample of skin from his arm. He talks to the LMB’s Madeline Lancaster, and others, to find out how scientists are using such organoids to understand brain growth and disease. More…

Published on 30th April, 2018

How to find the right mentor for you

Claudia Bonfio, postdoc in the LMB’s PNAC Division, shares personal experiences of finding the right mentor to help her through the transition from PhD student to postdoc. More…

Published on 27th March, 2018

Michel Goedert: on our best hope for tackling Alzheimer’s disease

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Michel Goedert, winner of Brain Prize 2018, believes our best hope of fighting Alzheimer’s disease lies in learning to predict who will get it and preventing it from developing in the first place. More…

Published on 26th March, 2018

Computational biologist M. Madan Babu is named Life Sciences Laureate at the 2018 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists

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In the first year that the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists have been extended to the UK, M. Madan Babu is named Life Sciences Laureate for his work on the structure of proteins, including G-protein coupled receptors which are major drug targets, and disordered regions. More…

Published on 23rd March, 2018

John Sulston (1942-2018): looking back at the pioneering life and work of this Nobel Prize-winning scientist

Nature looks back at the life and work of John Sulston, from his time investigating cell fate, lineage and the genetics of C. elegans at the LMB, to his involvement with the Human Genome Project. More…

Published on 21st March, 2018
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