Emeritus group leader Cyrus Chothia, from the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, has been honoured with two awards for his ground-breaking work in the use of computational methods to study the structure and function of proteins, and the evolution of genomes, which led to the birth of Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics. Cyrus has been awarded […]
Cyrus Chothia, bioinformatics pioneer, honoured with two prestigious international awards
Brad Amos and John White win ABRF Biomolecular Technologies Award
The 2015 Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF) Award for Annual Outstanding Contributions to Biomolecular Technologies has been awarded to Brad Amos and John White for the development of the laser-scanning confocal microscope. Brad and John were members of the LMB when they developed and patented the first high-resolution, laser scanning confocal microscope for biological […]
Venki Ramakrishnan at World Economic Forum in Davos
The end of the antibiotic age? The LMB’s Venki Ramakrishnan took part in a panel discussion on the problem of antibiotic resistance at the World Economic Forum in Davos. In an interview with Katia Moskvitch, he tells us about the importance of gaining a better understanding of the use and misuse of these drugs. More…
LMB science portrayed in art: ‘Lens on Life’ exhibition in London
Works of art that resulted from unique collaborations between artists and scientists, including LMB group leader Melina Schuh, are currently being displayed in London’s Lethaby Gallery in the exhibition ‘Lens on Life’. This high profile exhibition explores cell division through works of art, with the aim of providing a new perspective on the processes of […]
Who made these covers and what are they doing here?
A cover image designed by Stephen Wallace from Jason Chin’s group at the LMB and Paul Margiotta from the LMB’s visual aids department is included in the Royal Society of Chemistry blog on cover art and the people who make it. This article is no longer available from the source website: Royal Society of Chemistry.
Unfinished proteins: how to find a needle in the haystack
A research team from the LMB’s Cell Biology division, working with colleagues from the Structural Studies division, has revealed how cells are able to find and tag for degradation the partially synthesised proteins generated when ribosomes occasionally stall. Cells make more than a hundred thousand new proteins every minute. Once in a while, one of […]