Barry Bentley, a PhD student in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division, is one of 14 exceptional writers to be shortlisted for the Max Perutz Science Writing Award. More…
LMB In The News
Sjors Scheres awarded the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV) Gold Medal
Sjors Scheres, LMB group leader, awarded the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society Gold Medal. The KNCV Gold Medal is the highest Dutch award for Chemistry. The award honours Sjors’s major contribution to electron microscopy and structural chemistry, in particular his work in the field of cryo-EM. More…
John Sulston’s worm cell drawings
John Sulston is best known for the leading role he played in the Human Genome Project. But earlier in his career, while working at the LMB, he studied the development of the nematode worm. Sarah Harrop tells the story behind a lab notebook entry which contributed to a Nobel Prize-winning breakthrough. More…
The revolution will not be crystallized: a new method sweeps through structural biology
“Move over X-ray crystallography. Electron cryo-microscopy is kicking up a storm by revealing the hidden machinery of the cell” – this Nature News Feature highlights the work of the LMB’s Richard Henderson, Nigel Unwin and Sjors Scheres in developing cryo-EM techniques that are changing the way scientists solve molecular structures. More…
Orchestrating Organoids
Madeline Lancaster’s method of growing organoids to understand early brain development is featured in this “guide to crafting tissues in a dish that reprise in vivo organs” More…
Worming our way to a new understanding of behaviour
The wriggling and writhing of worms may hold clues to the inner workings of our brains, according to scientists at the MRC’s Clinical Sciences Centre and their collaborators at the LMB. The researchers have developed a pioneering tool to analyse a worm’s posture as it wriggles, and will use the tool to investigate how exactly […]