Rebecca Taylor will be giving a talk at the UTC Cambridge as part of the Cambridge Science Festival. In her talk entitled, ‘Finding the fountain of youth: why we age and what we can do about it’, Rebecca will explain how her lab are using worms to understand how the nervous system coordinates the ageing […]
Rebecca Taylor to talk at Cambridge Science Festival: Thursday 23rd March, 6.00pm
Brad Amos to talk at Cambridge Science Festival: Monday 20th March, 6.00pm
Brad Amos will be giving a talk at the UTC Cambridge as part of the Cambridge Science Festival. In his talk entitled, ‘Life through a lens’, Brad will show spectacular new 3D images of mouse embryos, possible due to his development of the Mesolens that achieves unparalleled resolution throughout a volume hundreds of times greater […]
Richard Henderson shares Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences
The 16th annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences will be awarded to Joachim Frank, Richard Henderson, and Marin van Heel for pioneering developments in electron microscopy that are transforming structural studies of biological molecules and their complexes. More…
Alison Woollard appointed Academic Champion for Public Engagement with Research at Oxford
Alison Woollard, LMB 1996-2000, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cell Biology Professor Alison Woollard, Department of Biochemistry and Fellow of Hertford College, has been appointed as the University of Oxford’s next Academic Champion for Public Engagement with Research. More…
New insights into how peptides became a part of the ancient RNA world
In all present-day organisms, information encoded in DNA, the genetic material of the cell, is converted via an RNA intermediate into proteins, the molecular machines of the cell. However, evidence suggests that in a distant evolutionary past our single-celled ancestors used only RNA for both genetic information storage and metabolism. A cornerstone of this “RNA […]
The idiosyncratic ribosomes of mitochondria
Mitochondria are organelles within eukaryotic cells that likely evolved from an ancient bacterium that was engulfed by a primordial eukaryote. Within mitochondria, mitochondrial ribosomes (mitoribosomes) synthesise a subset of essential proteins encoded by the mitochondrial genome. Although mitoribosomes share a common ancestor with bacterial ribosomes, they have undergone substantial changes during evolution that have resulted […]