“The best of the UK’s cutting-edge science, engineering and technology are on display at London’s Southbank Centre as the Royal Society opens its summer science festival. One of the exhibits on display is a giant lens microscope which allows scientists to examine specimens at multiple levels of focus. It can show the crusty skin of […]
LMB In The News
Grant winners – Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
“Sixteen transnational projects have received EUR24 million (£20 million) in funding under ERASysBio+, an initiative involving ministries and funding agencies from 13 countries that seeks to coordinate national research in systems biology and agree a common European research agenda. The projects below are part of 13 UK-based schemes that will receive EUR7.7 million from the […]
This Week in Science
“In an advance, online publication of Science this week, investigators [Dr KJ Patel] at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, and their colleagues report that the “disruption of both FANCC and [nonhomologous end joining factor] Ku70 suppresses sensitivity to cross-linking agents, diminishes chromosome breaks, and reverses defective homologous recombination” in Fanconi anemia.” […]
Video interviews of ERBI conference
“This is a series of brief film interviews with entrepreneurs, scientists and company executives from the ERBI region [including Dr Richard Henderson and Sir Gregory Winter from LMB] speaking about a wide range of topical issues such as their careers or their involvement in the biotechnology industry”.
Heptares Therapeutics extends multi-fte chemistry collaboration with oxygen healthcare (o2h)
“Executives from Heptares Therapeutics (Welwyn Garden City, UK) and O2h (Cambridge, UK) announced today an extension of the agreement under which O2h provides multi-FTE -synthetic chemistry services to support discovery programmes at Heptares… Heptares is a drug discovery company focused on identifying novel drug candidates targeting validated G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) in several disease areas. Heptares […]
UK-Europe collaborations harness biology for engineering
“Four new projects, announced today, will develop biological methods that offer a new approach to antibiotic production, power generation for extremely small mechanical components, new classes of medicines and innovative techniques to study cell biology. Teams comprising researchers from the UK and elsewhere in Europe will use synthetic biology to design systems with usefully engineered […]