Benjamin Falcon, a postdoc in Michel Goedert’s group in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division, talks to the Cambridge Independent about his work on the structures of tau filaments in different types of dementia after winning the Alzheimer’s Research UK Rising Star Award for his work in this area. More…
Rising star Benjamin Falcon explores role of tau in dementia
LMB 365 – Day 143
On day 143 of #LMB365, we celebrate the 6th anniversary of the official opening of the current LMB building. HM The Queen, accompanied by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, is seen walking through the LMB Atrium, escorted by the then LMB Director Hugh Pelham.
Jason Chin on Inside Science: A huge leap forward for synthetic biology with the first recoded synthetic bacterial genome
Jason Chin from the LMB’s PNAC Division and Julius Fredens, a postdoc in Jason’s group, show Roland Pease what an artificial genome looks like and talk about the potential uses of a recoded E. coli genome. Listen from 17:40 – 23:40. More…
LMB 365 – Day 142
Drosophila Melanogaster is a key model organism used across the LMB to study fundamental aspects of biology. This image for day 142 of #LMB365 shows a Drosophila head imaged by Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) taken by Emmanuel Derivery in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division. Fly hairs, which are actually mechanosensory organs, are a well-established system to study cell fate determination following asymmetric cell division, and as such help our understanding of asymmetric cell fate determination during stem cell division in humans.
LMB 365 project captures life and work at the LMB
The Cambridge Independent shares some selected highlights from the LMB 365 project in which one image representing life and work at the LMB is posted every day of 2019. More…
A novel mode of RNA recognition based on structure not sequence
Our genetic code is translated from DNA into proteins through an intermediate molecule: messenger RNA (mRNA). One major way in which synthesis of proteins can be regulated is through turnover of mRNA; less protein is produced from a short-lived mRNA molecule. The signal for the degradation of a particular mRNA is the removal of a […]