“The 2012 Leeuwenhoek Lecture will be given by Dr Brad Amos FRS…” More…
How new science is transforming the optical microscope
Scientist is knighted
“Hugh Pelham, director of the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, was knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours last June . The investiture took place at the palace yesterday…” This article is no longer available from the source website: Cambridge News 10 February 2012
New technology for the rapid, site-specific labeling of proteins
“Jason Chin, Kathrin Lang and Lloyd Davis from LMB and colleagues at the North Carolina State University have created specially engineered mammalian cells to enable researchers to label proteins of interest more efficiently. As reported in Nature Chemistry…” More…
Evolution at the lab bench
“Interested in overcoming the PCR inhibitors often present in complex environmental samples, Phil Holliger and colleagues decided the best solution to the problem was to re-engineer a better polymerase – an ‘evolved’ polymerase that offered resistance to the environmental inhibitors.” This article is no longer available from the source website: Biotechniques 2 February 2012
Focus on Jason Chin
“EMBO Member Jason Chin, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, talks about reprogramming the genetic code and re-engineering ribosomes and the possibility of building a parallel biological system. He also talks about in-vivo experiments in biochemistry, gives advice to young researchers and how he benefitted from being an EMBO Young Investigator.” More…
Cutting edge chemistry in 2011
“The RNA world hypothesis also got a boost this year with work from Philipp Holliger’s team at the Medical Research Laboratory in Cambridge, UK. The hypothesis, first suggested by Francis Crick in 1968, suggests that life on Earth began with a self-replicating RNA molecule but has remained unproved. Holliger went back…” More…