New research by John O’Neill, in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, and Kenneth Wright, at the University of Colorado, has revealed the mechanism by which caffeine affects the human body clock. The body’s internal clock affects many aspects of human health and disease, such as when we feel sleepy, how we metabolise food, and even […]
Effects of caffeine on the human circadian clock
SANE’s mental health campaign supported as LMB hosts ‘Horace’ the Black Dog
During mid-September the Black Dog statue, ‘Horace’, will sit outside the main entrance of the LMB. Horace is the symbol of the charity SANE’s campaign to reduce the stigma surrounding mental illness and encourage people to seek help early. The Black Dog has been used as a metaphor for depression from ancient times to the […]
The revolution will not be crystallized: a new method sweeps through structural biology
“Move over X-ray crystallography. Electron cryo-microscopy is kicking up a storm by revealing the hidden machinery of the cell” – this Nature News Feature highlights the work of the LMB’s Richard Henderson, Nigel Unwin and Sjors Scheres in developing cryo-EM techniques that are changing the way scientists solve molecular structures. More…
Orchestrating Organoids
Madeline Lancaster’s method of growing organoids to understand early brain development is featured in this “guide to crafting tissues in a dish that reprise in vivo organs” More…
LMB wins bronze in Summer Cycle Challenge
The LMB has yet again shown how committed its staff are to cycling by coming third in the Travel for Cambridgeshire Summer Cycle Challenge. The Challenge ran from 1st – 28th June 2015 and gave cyclists the opportunity to log their rides over a 4-week period to compete individually, and in teams, against friends and […]
Worming our way to a new understanding of behaviour
The wriggling and writhing of worms may hold clues to the inner workings of our brains, according to scientists at the MRC’s Clinical Sciences Centre and their collaborators at the LMB. The researchers have developed a pioneering tool to analyse a worm’s posture as it wriggles, and will use the tool to investigate how exactly […]