An idea that combines two likely ingredients of genesis has been put forward by Philip Holliger from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. One ingredient is the idea that there was an ‘RNA world’ before the current DNA world. The other comes from the idea that a key factor in evolution was the emergence of […]
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Botox jab could ease arthritis and cancer without side effects
Sheffield University researcher Professor Bazbek Davletov took the pain-relieving part of Botox and ‘stapled’ it to a friendly part of a similar poison produced by the tetanus bug. The tetanus toxin ferries the pain reliever to the spinal cord, where it stops pain signals being sent to the brain. Professor Davletov designed the drug while […]
Smart neurons: single dendrites can perform computations
A study, published in the journal Nature and carried out by researchers based at the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research at UCL, LMB’s Tiago Branco and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, succeeded in making incredibly challenging electrical and optical recordings directly from the tiny dendrites of neurons in the intact brain while […]
Michael Neuberger 1953 – 2013
Professor Michael Neuberger, who has died aged 59, was a brilliant biochemist and immunologist whose work helped to launch a revolution in biomedical research. More…
MRC Annual Review 2012 – 13
Jason Chin and Phil Holliger’s research is featured in the Economy section of the new MRC Annual Review. More…
Computer chemists win Nobel prize
The 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry has gone to three scientists who “took the chemical experiment into cyberspace.” All three men spent varying periods at the LMB, in particular Michael Levitt who started his PhD at LMB at the end of the 1960s. More…