Richard Henderson, group leader at the LMB, has been awarded the Kaj Linderstrøm Lang Prize at Carlsberg’s ‘Science to Business’ Forum in recognition of his pioneering work towards obtaining high resolution atomic structures of membrane proteins and membrane protein complexes by cryo electron microscopy. More…
LMB In The News
Scientists are battling a drug-resistant pathogen which could prove fatal to patients with cystic fibrosis
Andres Floto, group leader in the University of Cambridge Research Unit based in the LMB, talks to Cambridge TV about his discovery that multidrug resistant mycobacterial infections, which can be fatal for cystic fibrosis patients, can be transferred from patient to patient, and how this new insight has impacted the design of the cystic fibrosis […]
Art-meets-science performance preview on Cambridge TV
The M.A.C. visited the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology to find out about an exciting collaborative performance between the institute’s scientists and the artists of 30 Bird and Public Works. More…
Katja Röper: Deciphering tissue origami
Profile of LMB group leader Katja Röper and her work on how cytoskeletal behaviour controls tissue morphogenesis. More…
New drug target for asthma
A new therapeutic target for inflammatory diseases such as asthma and autoimmune disorders has been identified by scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. The researchers found that the PD-1 protein is a marker for developing Innate Lymphoid Cells that can trigger asthma.The LMB’s Andrew McKenzie is a author on the paper, and comments on […]
Microscopy: Imaging far and wide
A custom-built objective lens called the Mesolens allows relatively large biological specimens to be imaged with cellular resolution. It was developed by Brad Amos, LMB Emeritus scientist, and a team at the University of Strathclyde led by Professor Gail McConnell,along with lens designer Esmond Reid. For the first time it becomes possible to see the […]