Scientists at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology have found that stem cells in the body’s ‘blood cell factory’ – the bone marrow – are extremely sensitive to the main breakdown product of alcohol, which causes irreversible damage to their DNA… This article is no longer available from the source website: Cambridge […]
Alcohol by-product destroys blood stem cells
Students embrace the art of science
Young artists from across Cambridgeshire have combined science with art for an annual creative challenge. Organised by Cambridge’s prestigious Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC-LMB), the Imagining the Brain project is an open exhibition designed to encourage students across the county to communicate scientific concepts through art… This article is no longer available […]
Alcohol by-product destroys blood stem cells
New research shows that acetaldehyde, the breakdown product generated when the body removes alcohol, causes irreversible damage to the DNA of stem cells in the body’s ‘blood cell factory’ – the bone marrow. The research, published in Nature, was carried out by a team of scientists led by KJ Patel in the LMB’s PNAC Division. […]
Synthetic ‘Upgrade’ for fruit fly’s DNA
The genetic code of the fruit fly Drosophila has been hacked into, allowing it to make proteins with properties that don’t exist in the natural world. […] Jason Chin at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge… More…
Genetic code engineering in Drosophila melanogaster
In the past few years, the ability to incorporate unnatural amino acids into proteins has begun to have a direct impact on the ability of scientists to study biological processes that are difficult or impossible to address by more classical methods. New research, led by members of Jason Chin’s group in the LMB’s PNAC Division, […]
Mapping the worm’s neural network
Work started at LMB by Donna Albertson, now at UCSF, and Nichol Thomson, has helped researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine determine the complete wiring diagram for the part of the nervous system controlling mating in the male roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans” More…