New research from Philipp Holliger’s group in the LMB’s PNAC Division demonstrates the power RNA could have wielded to enable the first forms of life on Earth to reproduce and thrive. At its most basic level, all life can be viewed as a mechanism for self-replication: organisms reproduce by making new copies of themselves and […]
LMB researchers one step closer to the ‘RNA world’
Women in Science Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
On Monday 25th November 2013, the LMB will be hosting a Women in Science Wikipedia Edit-a-thon – the latest in a series of such events to celebrate the MRC’s Centenary. The event is based on the Edit-a-thon held in 2012 on Ada Lovelace Day, a day which celebrates the achievements of women in science, technology, […]
Botox jab could ease arthritis and cancer without side effects
Sheffield University researcher Professor Bazbek Davletov took the pain-relieving part of Botox and ‘stapled’ it to a friendly part of a similar poison produced by the tetanus bug. The tetanus toxin ferries the pain reliever to the spinal cord, where it stops pain signals being sent to the brain. Professor Davletov designed the drug while […]
Smart neurons: single dendrites can perform computations
A study, published in the journal Nature and carried out by researchers based at the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research at UCL, LMB’s Tiago Branco and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, succeeded in making incredibly challenging electrical and optical recordings directly from the tiny dendrites of neurons in the intact brain while […]
Michael Neuberger 1953 – 2013
Professor Michael Neuberger, who has died aged 59, was a brilliant biochemist and immunologist whose work helped to launch a revolution in biomedical research. More…
Michael Neuberger (1953 – 2013)
Michael Neuberger, Deputy Director of the LMB and Head of Division of Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry died on Saturday 26 October, after several months of serious illness. He was an outstanding and brilliant scientist. Michael was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College Cambridge, received a first class honours degree in Natural Sciences (Biochemistry), […]