Venki talks about his life and work for BBC Radio 4’s The Life Scientific. More…
LMB In The News
If you can work anywhere, where do you want to work?
An article about modern work spaces featuring the LMB: “It is elegantly fit for purpose, and the purpose, says its director, Sir Hugh Pelham, is “doing science rather than fundraising, teaching or administration”…each wing is dedicated to a different branch of molecular biology. The wings have common features. This enables collisions between the small teams […]
Why brains are beautiful
How advances in neuroscience, including LMB’s Madeline Lancaster’s work on ‘mini-brains’, are helping to unlock the secrets of this biological masterpiece and help improve understanding of mental illness. More…
Cambridge’s 92 Nobel Prize winners
Cambridge News’ has been rounding up all of Cambridge’s 92 Nobel Laureates, which includes 15 LMB scientists: 13 whose Nobel Prize winning research was conducted at the LMB, and 2 alumni who went on to carry out prize-winning research elsewhere: 1951 to 1974; 1974 to 1989; 1996 to 2015. These articles are no longer available […]
The Author File: Jason W. Chin
How to combine biology, chemistry and synthetic biology to add synthetic amino acids to a protein, and why creativity matters. Profile of LMB group leader, Jason Chin and his research. More…
The plastic fantastic brain: Why losing one sense rewires others
A study finds worms that can’t feel are better smellers – and the phenomenon is reversible. The collaborative study by Ithai Rabinowitch, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and William Schafer’s group at LMB, was started by Ithai while a postdoc in William’s group at LMB. More…