Leading Japanese biopharmaceutical company, Sosei Group Corporation, has acquired the UK-based biotechnology company, Heptares Therapeutics Limited, to create a leading global biopharmaceutical company with a major drug discovery and development hub in the UK. Heptares was co-founded in 2007 by Richard Henderson and Chris Tate, LMB group leaders in the Structural Studies Division. It was […]
LMB spin-out, Heptares Therapeutics, acquired by Sosei Group
DNA Sequencing technique featured on Royal Mail stamp
The DNA Sequencing technique, developed by Fred Sanger at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, is highlighted as one of eight key inventions of the past century, on a new set of stamps, ‘Inventive Britain’ from the Royal Mail. This article is no longer available from the source website: Royal Mail News 19 February 2015
Basic research could lead to fertility improvements, says LMB’s Melina Schuh
The Cambridge News highlights Melina Schuh’s work on the development of mammalian oocytes into fertilisable eggs. Errors during this process are common causes of miscarriages and genetic defects such as Down’s syndrome. This article is no longer available from the source website: Cambridge News 17 February 2015
Dynactin complex structure revealed by electron cryo-microscopy
Dynactin is a protein complex that activates the dynein motor protein, enabling intracellular transport. It is extremely flexible and has proved very difficult to study by conventional crystallography methods. Now for the first time, research carried out by Andrew Carter and his group in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, has revealed the structure of this […]
Cyrus Chothia, bioinformatics pioneer, honoured with two prestigious international awards
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 […]
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 […]