LMB In The News

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

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

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…

Work started at LMB by Donna Albertson, now at UCSF, and Nichol Thomson, has helped researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine determine the complete wiring diagram for the part of the nervous system controlling mating in the male roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans” More…

According to news reporting originating in Cambridge, United Kingdom, by NewsRx journalists, researchers stated “CD4+ T cells play key roles in orchestrating adaptive immune responses, and are a popular model for mammalian cell differentiation. While immune regulation would seem to require exactly adjusted mRNA and protein expression levels of key factors, there is little evidence that this is strictly the case.” More…

“Heptares Therapeutics, the leading GPCR drug discovery company, has extended its collaboration with the MRC, in particular the research group led by Chris Tate, at the LMB.” More…