The HR team at the LMB had to hone their baking skills in preparation for the Macmillan Cancer Support World’s Biggest Coffee Morning, on Friday 25th September. The bakers produced a spectacular array of cakes ranging from cookies and cupcakes to bread pudding and a Macmillan themed carrot cake. The money raised for Macmillan Cancer […]
LMB HR raise £194 at Macmillan Coffee Morning
2015 Max Perutz Science Writing Award shortlist announced
Barry Bentley, a PhD student in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division, is one of 14 exceptional writers to be shortlisted for the Max Perutz Science Writing Award. More…
A fundamental protection mechanism against formalin in mammals is revealed
Formaldehyde, or formalin, is well known to all of us as a common chemical used in many industrial processes and also as a preservative, remarkably we also produce formaldehyde in our bodies. This “endogenous” formaldehyde is ubiquitous, and sufficient amounts might be produced that could damage our cells. Work by Lucas Pontel and Ivan Rosado […]
Sjors Scheres awarded the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV) Gold Medal
Sjors Scheres, LMB group leader, awarded the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society Gold Medal. The KNCV Gold Medal is the highest Dutch award for Chemistry. The award honours Sjors’s major contribution to electron microscopy and structural chemistry, in particular his work in the field of cryo-EM. More…
John Sulston’s worm cell drawings
John Sulston is best known for the leading role he played in the Human Genome Project. But earlier in his career, while working at the LMB, he studied the development of the nematode worm. Sarah Harrop tells the story behind a lab notebook entry which contributed to a Nobel Prize-winning breakthrough. More…
2015 Francis Crick Lecture to be given by Emmanuelle Charpentier
Emmanuelle Charpentier will give the 2015 Francis Crick Lecture on Friday 2nd October 2015 at 15:15 in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre at the LMB. The lecture, entitled “The transformative CRISPR-Cas9 genome engineering technology: lessons learned from bacteria” is open to anyone in the local area who is interested in attending. Emmanuelle is a director […]