Cambridge News’ has been rounding up all of Cambridge’s 92 Nobel Laureates, which includes 15 LMB scientists: 13 whose Nobel Prize winning research was conducted at the LMB, and 2 alumni who went on to carry out prize-winning research elsewhere: 1951 to 1974; 1974 to 1989; 1996 to 2015. These articles are no longer available […]
Cambridge’s 92 Nobel Prize winners
Understanding noise: the molecular determinants of random variation in gene expression levels
Cell-to-cell variability in gene expression level (noise) has emerged as one of the fundamental concepts in genetics. Non-genetic, cell-to-cell variation in the abundance of a gene product can generate a diversity of behaviour in genetically identical population of cells. This phenomenon is pervasive and prevalent in development (e.g. stem cells) and disease (e.g. cancer). Genome-scale […]
Cryo-EM sheds new light on the spliceosome activation process
Researchers in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division have been able to show in more detail than ever before the structure of a large part of the spliceosome, a macromolecular machine involved in the maturation of messenger RNAs for protein synthesis. Thi Hoang Duong (Kelly) Nguyen, Wojciech Galej, Xiao-Chen Bai, Andy Newman and Chris Oubridge in […]
The Author File: Jason W. Chin
How to combine biology, chemistry and synthetic biology to add synthetic amino acids to a protein, and why creativity matters. Profile of LMB group leader, Jason Chin and his research. More…
The plastic fantastic brain: Why losing one sense rewires others
A study finds worms that can’t feel are better smellers – and the phenomenon is reversible. The collaborative study by Ithai Rabinowitch, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and William Schafer’s group at LMB, was started by Ithai while a postdoc in William’s group at LMB. More…
Congratulations to Richard Henderson, winner of the 2016 Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics
Richard Henderson will receive the National Academy of Sciences 2016 Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics for his outstanding contribution to the development of electron microscopy techniques for determining high-resolution structures. More…