The winners of this year’s Imagining the Brain competition visited the LMB on Monday 1st October for the formal awards ceremony. The Imagining the Brain art competition invites Cambridgeshire pupils with an interest in art and science to cut through the jargon usually associated with complex subjects like neuroscience and use art as a means […]
Accolades for Imagining the Brain art competition winners
Sweet answer to the origins of life
New research, from John Sutherland and Dougal Ritson in the LMB’s PNAC division, delivers a breakthrough in the chemistry of the origin of life. Whilst some maintain that life formed elsewhere in the Universe and was transported to earth, the duo’s findings, published in Nature Chemistry, suggest that the genetic material essential for all known […]
Many Proteins Exist in a State of ‘Disorder’ and Yet Are Functional
You mention that in the biomedical community disorder is associated with disease. Your co-author M. Madan Babu of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge has written about this connection… More…
Celebrating 100 years
It’s not often that you get to celebrate a 100th birthday, but the MRC will be doing just that in 2013 […] Look out for coverage of the opening of the new MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) building in Cambridge. Three years in the building, at a cost of more than £200m, this stunning […]
2012 Max Perutz lecture to be given by Steve West
Steve West will give the 2012 Max Perutz lecture on Thursday 13 September at 4.15pm in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre at the LMB. The lecture, entitled “Defective DNA strand break repair, genome instability and cancer” is open to all interested in attending. Steve West is known for pioneering studies on homologous recombination, and for defining the […]
New insight into common mutations in human cancers
One of the most commonly mutated genes in human cancers is the lipid kinase PIK3CA (phosphoinositide 3-kinase alpha). Mutations can activate this enzyme, resulting in proliferation of tumour cells and resistance to programmed cell death or apoptosis. By applying the powerful technique of hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry to map this complex system, a team of […]