Research in the group of Kiyoshi Nagai in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division has for the first time provided detailed information on the structure and role of proteins at the active site of the spliceosome, which is responsible for the excision of introns from messenger-RNA (mRNA) precursors in the nucleus. The spliceosome is a large […]
Architecture of the spliceosome active site
Unnatural amino acids and protein modification
Jason Chin is looking at ways in which proteins can be altered to change their properties, which can create new therapeutics, and even give an insight into what’s going on inside living cells. Chem@Cam, page 8.
From Genome to Proteome: BCA Winter Meeting 2012
Report on the BCA Winter Meeting, held at LMB in December. Summary of talks, including Chris Oubridge from Kiyoshi Nagai’s group and Israel Sanchez from Venki Ramakrishnan’s group.
100 years from now: Jason Chin on synthetic biology
LMB’s Jason Chin discusses synthetic biology, and where research will take us in the next 100 years, for the Centenary edition of MRC Network, page 26
First glimpse inside the new LMB
As the move into the new LMB building begins, Cambridge News take a look inside at the new facilities. This article is no longer available from the source website: Cambridge News 17 January 2013
Celebrating ‘100 years of life-changing discoveries’
As one of the Medical Research Council’s major research institutes, the LMB will be playing a key role in helping to celebrate the MRC’s Centenary this year. The year-long MRC Centenary programme taking place across the UK and in Africa, will provide events and online activities for people of all ages and all levels of […]