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Greg Winter wins 2018 Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Greg Winter wins 2018 Nobel Prize for Chemistry

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Greg Winter from the LMB’s Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (PNAC) Division has been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Greg shares half of this year’s prize with George P. Smith, with the other half being awarded to Frances H. Arnold, for developing a method known as phage display and using it for the […]

Susan Shao and Tanmay Bharat appointed as 2018 Vallee Scholars

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LMB alumni Susan Shao and Tanmay Bharat are two of the five scientists to be awarded prestigious Vallee Scholarships in 2018. The Vallee Scholars program makes grants to outstanding, young, independent investigators carrying out basic biomedical research. More…

Silent tuberculosis is less common than had been widely thought

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A study by Lalita Ramakrishnan, from the University of Cambridge Molecular Immunity Unit based in the LMB, has found that most people who fall seriously ill with tuberculosis do so within 2 years of getting infected, which has implications for public health strategy. More…

Instinctive and learned responses to smells are controlled by a single brain circuit in flies

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As well as having instinctive responses to their environment, nearly all animals can learn to associate particular sights, smells, or sounds with rewards or negative consequences. It had been thought that two separate brain centres control these two different types of responses; innate and learned. However, researchers from Greg Jefferis’ group in the LMB’s Neurobiology […]