Tim Stevens, in collaboration with scientists from the University of Cambridge, has determined the first 3D structures of intact mammalian genomes from individual cells, showing how the DNA from all the chromosomes intricately folds to fit together inside the cell nuclei. More…
LMB In The News
Julian Gough discusses the wonders of the SUPERFAMILY database
Julian Gough is interviewed by the Huffington Post and discusses SUPERFAMILY, his database of structural and functional annotations for proteins and genomes, a public resource which scientists around the world can use freely in their research. More…
Student artist meets LMB scientist who discovered inspirational toxin’s structure
Vivian, student artist who created a painting based on lysenin during Protein Data Bank in Europe’s art-science collaborative project, met with LMB’s Christos Savva, the scientist who discovered the structure of lysenin, at the opening of the Cambridge exhibition of artworks by The Leys students. More…
Alison Woollard is guest on BBC Radio 4, ‘The Life Scientific’
Alison Woollard, LMB 1996-2000, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cell Biology Professor Alison Woollard, from the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford, is this week’s guest on BBC Radio 4’s ‘The Life Scientific’. Alison explains her enthusiasm for the tiny nematode worm, C. elegans, and talks fondly of her time at the LMB. More…
Rebecca Taylor to talk at Cambridge Science Festival: Thursday 23rd March, 6.00pm
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 […]
Brad Amos to talk at Cambridge Science Festival: Monday 20th March, 6.00pm
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 […]