A recent event held at the LMB showed how a PhD in science can lead to various exciting careers outside the lab, including working in Science Policy, Communications and Administration. The joint LMB-Cambridge AWiSE event, which took place on Wednesday 4th June, attracted a large audience of PhD students and post-docs from around Cambridge to […]
What next after Academia? Three ways to forge a career away from the bench
Cryo-EM reveals mammalian protein export machinery
A collaborative team from LMB’s Cell Biology and Structural Studies Divisions has visualized the mammalian protein synthesis and export machinery at near-atomic resolution. The new research helps explain how secreted proteins, such as hormones, can cross an otherwise impermeable membrane to exit the cell. It has long been appreciated that cells communicate with each other […]
How does biology make tubes?
During the development of an organism, whether it be a worm, fly, dog or human being, the early embryo must build different structures which will later become the body’s organs. Many structures within an organism are tubular: the veins and arteries; the gut; as well as the kidneys and lungs. So how do the individual […]
Insights into how the Fanconi Anaemia core complex activates DNA repair
Research carried out by Eeson Rajendra from Lori Passmore’s group in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, in close collaboration with KJ Patel from the LMB’s PNAC Division, has brought together LMB expertise in protein biochemistry and genetics to study the disease Fanconi Anaemia (FA). For the first time, they have isolated the intact FA core […]
Novel lipid kinase structure lays the foundation for a new class of drugs
A collaboration between Roger Williams’ group here in the LMB’s Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry Division and Kevan Shokat’s group at the University of California, San Francisco has provided insight into potential targets for the design of a new class of anti-viral drugs. Enteroviruses cause diseases including polio; hand, foot and mouth disease and the […]
Nobel prize winning Cambridge scientist Max Perutz given new stamp of approval
The LMB’s founder, Max Perutz, who was honoured on the centenary of his birth with a Royal Mail Stamp, has now also had a postmark created for the occasion, which will appear on letters and parcels delivered around Cambridge this week. This article is no longer available from the source website: Cambridge News 20 May […]