LMB In The News

This month’s RNA Society Spotlight has a feature on Kelly Nguyen, a Group Leader in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division. Kelly describes the inspirations that led to her working in RNA structural biology, her experience of starting her group, and her advice for younger scientists. More…

Max Kellner, a PhD student in Madeline Lancaster’s group, was stranded in Vienna as much of Europe went into lockdown at the start of the pandemic, but was able to join the Vienna COVID-19 Diagnostics Initiative. Max: “Stranded in my home-town Vienna, it felt great to have contributed towards simple and rapid COVID-19 diagnostics”. More…

Sjors Scheres’ and Radu Aricescu’s groups have pushed the boundaries of cryo-EM, allowing the technique to detect individual atoms in a protein for the first time. Radu commented, “It was like peeling off a blur over your eyes”. More…

The American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States, was founded in 1743 for the purpose of “promoting useful knowledge”. It is unusual among learned societies because its Membership is comprised of top scholars from a wide variety of academic disciplines. New Members in 2020 include musicians, historians, social scientists, and researchers […]

Science Museum blog: The development of COVID-19 treatments, tests, drugs and vaccines will be accelerated by molecular understanding of the COVID-19 virus. Roger Highfield, Science Director, looks at what is happening in the LMB. More…

Cambridge Independent feature story on Julian Gough’s new phenotype prediction genome data study, which is also exploring whether DNA genotype can be used to predict Covid-19 risk factors. Julian is asking those who have had consumer DNA tests to aid the research by volunteering their data. More…