LMB In The News

The LMB has played a pivotal role in the development of X-ray crystallography and the inspirational work of crystallographic scientists from round the UK is showcased in an upcoming exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall. “Illuminating Atoms” presents a selection of photographs by Max Alexander, to celebrate the International Year of Crystallography. The exhibition can […]

Bicycle Therapeutics, founded as a spin out company from the LMB by Sir Greg Winter and Christian Heinis, has secured £20m equity financing to develop bicycle drug candidates for cancer treatment. The bio-therapeutics company has used its bicyclic peptide technology to discover a new class of drug candidates which are similar to antibodies but 100-fold […]

Professor Brian Clark, member of LMB Scientific Staff 1964-1974, and founder of structural biology research at Aarhus University, died on Monday 6 October 2014 aged 78 years. Brian led the team crystallising tRNA at LMB before moving to Aarhus. He was a very loyal supporter of LMB and recently attended the LMB alumni symposium in […]

It’s been more than a year since the launch of Worm Watch Lab, a citizen science project involving the LMB’s William Schafer in which members of the public watch videos of tiny nematode worms, to contribute to a neuroscience study. So what has been spotted so far? More…

A new documentary, charting the history of crystallography tells a fascinating story of a scientific technique that is revealing many of life’s most beautiful secrets. The 40 minute film includes exclusive interviews with internationally acclaimed scientists and unique glimpses into rarely seen historical collections. The work of LMB scientists including Kendrew, Perutz, Watson, Crick and […]

In this Podcast, the LMB’s Greg Jefferis talks to Kerri Smith from Nature about a new algorithm that sorts neurons in the fly brain by type – and finds a few surprises. This article is no longer available from the source website