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…
Jason Chin on Inside Science: A huge leap forward for synthetic biology with the first recoded synthetic bacterial genome
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 […]
LMB 365 – Day 141
This photo of the LMB by Ivan Rosa e Silva for day 141 of #LMB365, was taken from Hobson’s Park at Great Kneighton to the West of the Campus. Totalling around 120 acres, the park contains woodland and four ponds.
LMB 365 – Day 140
On day 140 of #LMB365 we have a picture by Katja Röper in the Cell biology Division. This image shows a confocal section of a mouse lung bud at embryonic day 12. Nuclei of cells are labelled in blue, the microtubule cytoskeleton in green and cell-cell junctions in red. The Röper lab studies how important tubular organs such as the lung form during development.