Sir Alan is an internationally renowned molecular biologist. He has pioneered many new fields in protein sciences and is a group leader in the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge… This article is no longer available from the source website.
Professor Sir Alan Fersht FRS becomes the 42nd Master of Caius
Friends of FUS: Protein’s Many RNA Buddies Point to Disease
This work follows another study of FUS targets led by Jernej Ule of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, U.K., and Chris Shaw of King’s College, London. […] the authors describe FUS’ role in mediating alternative splicing, where it prevents target exons from being included in mature mRNAs… More…
LMB Congratulates John Gurdon on Nobel Prize Announcement
The LMB is delighted to congratulate alumnus John Gurdon on the award of the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. John shares the award with Shinya Yamanaka, from Japan, for their quite different work (more than 40 years apart) on reprogramming somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells. John’s key experiments on nuclear transplantations into […]
Nobel success: What makes a great lab?
William Bynum reflects on the factors that have brought nine Nobel prizes to the Laboratory of Molecular Biology… More…
Vince Cable pays a flying visit
Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, paid a short visit to the LMB on 3 October to learn about the Laboratory’s work, find out about its recent successes in the commercial exploitation of discoveries, and get a first sight of the LMB’s new building. After a short overview of the LMB’s […]
Traditional greeting as Master arrives in style
Hundreds of academics and students lined up to welcome their new Master at a historic ceremony inside the walls of Trinity College yesterday. Sir Gregory Winter [former Deputy Director of the LMB] knocked at the college’s Great Gate carrying Letters Patent from the Queen… This article is no longer available from the source website: Cambridge […]