The design and synthesis of genomes provides a powerful approach for understanding and engineering biology. The development of methods that can accurately replace the genome in sections, provide feedback on precisely where a given design fails and on how to repair it, and that can be rapidly repeated for whole genome replacement would accelerate our […]
New technologies enable systematic recoding of genomes
John O’Neill receives EMBO Young Investigator Programme Award
LMB group leader, John O’Neill, has been elected into the 2016 EMBO Young Investigator Programme. This prestigious programme recognises some of Europe’s best young scientists and provides academic, practical and financial support to help them realise their potential as group leaders and world-class researchers. This year 25 Young Investigators have been elected from over 200 […]
LMB raises £378 at Macmillan Coffee Morning
For the second year running, the LMB’s HR team, supported by colleagues across the LMB, showed off their baking skills for the Macmillan Cancer Support World’s Biggest Coffee Morning, on Friday 30th September. A large table of home made cakes, biscuits and sweets greeted staff on entrance to the LMB’s restaurant. This year’s showcase was […]
2016 John Kendrew Lecture to be given by Bonnie Bassler
Bonnie Bassler will give the 2016 John Kendrew Lecture on Monday 24th October 2016 at 11.00 in the LMB’s Max Perutz Lecture Theatre. The title of the lecture is ‘Bacterial Quorum Sensing and its Control’. The event is open to anyone in the local area who is interested in attending. Bonnie has made key insights […]
New drug target for asthma
A new therapeutic target for inflammatory diseases such as asthma and autoimmune disorders has been identified by scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. The researchers found that the PD-1 protein is a marker for developing Innate Lymphoid Cells that can trigger asthma.The LMB’s Andrew McKenzie is a author on the paper, and comments on […]
New insights into the mechanism of ubiquitin chain cleavage
The ubiquitin system is a complex system in all eukaryotic organisms involved in the regulation of most cellular processes. A huge variety of signals are assembled with ubiquitin molecules onto cellular proteins to mark them for a specific task. Important regulators of the ubiquitin system are deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs), which remove, or cleave, ubiquitin chains […]