Day 322 of #LMB365 shows Li Jin and Christine Hilcenko setting up their stand at the LMB for a charity cake sale in support of The Raymond Nicolet Trust. The sale achieved an amazing £178 that will fully go to support educational establishments in Serbia.
LMB 365 – Day 322
LMB 365 – Day 321
If you have ever wondered how all the glass in the atrium of the LMB is kept clean, this photo for day 321 of #LMB365 shows you how. This is carried out biennially and takes two people 8 days to clean all the glass, including the fascia boards, high girders, tops of pods, and floodlights. Throughout the process care is taken to protect the atrium floor.
LMB 365 – Day 320
On day 320 of #LMB365 we have a picture by Katja Röper in the Cell Biology Division. This image shows a confocal image of the forming tube of the salivary glands in a Drosophila embryo, a model system for the formation of tubular organs. Tube cells are in green, and this forming tube is aberrant and forked due to a specific genetic mutation affecting tube formation. The Röper lab studies how important tubular organs from flies to humans form during development.
New understanding of protein abundance control
Cells tightly control the levels of ‘housekeeping’ proteins to maintain smooth operation of basic life processes. The most common way cells accomplish this task is feedback control of transcription to turn on or turn off genes in response to perceived need of their protein products.
LMB 365 – Day 319
The Electronics Workshop stocks an impressive array of electronic components and ‘useful bits and pieces’ as seen here on day 319 of #LMB365. They come in especially useful when a visiting contractor is short of something to finish a job.
Cambridge Independent features the future of LMB’s Nobel-winning technology
Chris Russo, Katerina Naydenova and Greg McMullan discuss the latest developments in the field of cryo-EM with Paul Brackley of the Cambridge Independent. “Based on this research, several companies and research groups are now working to make this technology widely available, as part of a simple cheap microscope that any biology lab will be able […]