The Telegraph reports that the LMB spin-out company Heptares has been acquired by Japanese pharmaceutical company Soseito. The group’s research and development activities and 72 employees will remain in Hertfordshire, and Heptares will operate as an autonomous subsidiary to Sosei. Heptares is developing a string of drugs using a technology which can determine the precise […]
British biotech Heptares snapped up by Japan’s Sosei in $400m deal
Lab land: architectural portrait of LMB
Architectural photographer, David Porter, explores LMB for Cambridge Business magazine, pages 65-69. More…
LMB spin-out, Heptares Therapeutics, acquired by Sosei Group
Leading Japanese biopharmaceutical company, Sosei Group Corporation, has acquired the UK-based biotechnology company, Heptares Therapeutics Limited, to create a leading global biopharmaceutical company with a major drug discovery and development hub in the UK. Heptares was co-founded in 2007 by Richard Henderson and Chris Tate, LMB group leaders in the Structural Studies Division. It was […]
DNA Sequencing technique featured on Royal Mail stamp
The DNA Sequencing technique, developed by Fred Sanger at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, is highlighted as one of eight key inventions of the past century, on a new set of stamps, ‘Inventive Britain’ from the Royal Mail. This article is no longer available from the source website: Royal Mail News 19 February 2015
Basic research could lead to fertility improvements, says LMB’s Melina Schuh
The Cambridge News highlights Melina Schuh’s work on the development of mammalian oocytes into fertilisable eggs. Errors during this process are common causes of miscarriages and genetic defects such as Down’s syndrome. This article is no longer available from the source website: Cambridge News 17 February 2015
Dynactin complex structure revealed by electron cryo-microscopy
Dynactin is a protein complex that activates the dynein motor protein, enabling intracellular transport. It is extremely flexible and has proved very difficult to study by conventional crystallography methods. Now for the first time, research carried out by Andrew Carter and his group in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, has revealed the structure of this […]