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Graphene: stronger than steel and now suitable for biological electron microscopy

Graphene: stronger than steel and now suitable for biological electron microscopy

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Lori Passmore and Chris Russo from the LMB’s Structural Studies Division have discovered how to modify the new material graphene using low-energy hydrogen plasmas, to allow it to bind proteins. This discovery makes it suitable for use in electron microscopy to solve protein structures. Graphene, which was only discovered in 2004, is a two-dimensional carbon […]

New technique identifies protein production in specific cells at specific times

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Research undertaken by Jason Chin’s group, in the LMB’s Centre for Chemical and Synthetic Biology (CCSB), part of the Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry Division, has successfully developed a novel and versatile technique to identify proteins produced in a particular set of cells at a particular time. Individual sets of cells in the body of […]

Shedding light on how mRNA molecules navigate to their destination within the cell

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Harish Chandra Soundararajan and Simon Bullock from the LMB’s Cell Biology Division have created a new technique for studying how dynein motors move individual mRNA molecules along microtubules, which has provided unique insights into cellular transport systems. In order for a cell to function, its constituents have to be sorted to different locations. In many […]

Paul Elliott awarded a Biochemical Society 2015 Early Career Research Award

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Paul Elliott, from the LMB’s Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (PNAC) Division, has won the prestigious Biochemical Society Early Career Research Award 2015 for Cell Signalling, for his molecular insights into signal transduction processes. The Biochemical Society exists to advance molecular and cellular biosciences, and with over 6000 members, is the largest discipline-based learned society […]

2013 Francis Crick Lecture to be given by Stanley B. Prusiner

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Stanley B. Prusiner, Director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Professor of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, will give the 2013 Francis Crick Lecture on Friday 11th April at 3.00pm in the LMB’s Max Perutz Lecture Theatre.  The lecture is open to anyone in the local area who is interested in […]