Staff at the LMB have raised over £1,200 from their annual charity fundraiser for Mind in Cambridgeshire, a dynamic, county-wide charity that supports local people in their recovery from mental health issues, promoting wellbeing and campaigning against stigma and discrimination. This cause was chosen to complement the work being done by the LMB’s Mental Health […]
LMB raises over £1,200 for “Mind in Cambridgeshire”
Heptares Therapeutics granted key patents for GPCR-Focused Drug Discovery Platform
Heptares Therapeutics, a leading G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) structure-guided drug discovery company, has recently been granted multiple key patents in the USA. GPCRs are a superfamily of drug receptors linked to a wide range of human diseases and Heptares was founded in 2007 to develop and commercialise pioneering research from the LMB and the National […]
Golden grids for electron cryo-microscopy
Recent exciting advances in electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) have allowed scientists to find very detailed structures of some proteins. Still, determining the structure of many proteins remains too difficult for cryo-EM, as the images are too noisy to use for structure determination. Lori Passmore and Chris Russo from the LMB’s Structural Studies Division have designed new […]
LMB’s Pat Edwards interviewed for the Long and Short magazine
Pat Edwards discusses her role in Research Support at the LMB and why the LMB is such a special place to work. This article is no longer available from the source website: TheLong+Short 2014
Signposts for organelle identity – new Rab GTPase effectors found
Cells contain specialised membrane-bound compartments called organelles, which are vital to the cell as they allow it to separate different biochemical reactions that otherwise might interfere with each other. To function correctly, these intracellular compartments need to recruit proteins from the cytoplasm, and since every organelle has a specific role, each one needs a particular […]
Synthetic enzymes hint at life without DNA or RNA
Enzymes that don’t exist in nature have been made from genetic material that doesn’t exist in nature either, called XNA, or xeno nucleic acid. New Scientist reports how the breakthrough from Philipp Holliger’s group at the LMB reinforces the possibility that life could evolve without DNA or RNA, the two self-replicating molecules considered indispensible for […]