Further details of how the LMB’s new building is kept running to meet the needs of the LMB’s scientific community. More…
The complexities of running a 21st Century laboratory building
Inside Health (BBC Radio 4)
Does using your laptop or PC at night prevent you from getting a good night’s sleep? Michael Hastings is among those interviewed. He explains how the blue wavelength light used in these technologies may be acting on the primitive light-sensitive pathways within the retina. More…
Anne Bertolotti awarded the 2014 Hooke Medal
Anne Bertolotti, from the LMB’s Neurobiology Division, has been announced as the British Society for Cell Biology 2014 Hooke Medal winner. The Hooke Medal is awarded annually to an outstanding cell biologist working in the UK, who has been working as a principal research scientist for less than 10 years. Previous LMB winners include Ben […]
LMB hosts Feldberg Prize Lecture by Nikolaus Pfanner
Professor Nikolaus Pfanner from the Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Freiburg, Germany, will deliver the 2014 Feldberg Prize Lecture on Thursday January 23rd at 4.15pm in the LMB’s Max Perutz Lecture Theatre. The title of the lecture is “The mitochondrial machinery for transport and assembly of proteins.” The lecture is open to […]
Redirecting the rules of attraction in fruit flies
Researchers at the LMB have discovered a biological switch that determines which part of the fruit fly’s brain responds to pheromones, depending on whether it is male or female. This is the first study to show specific changes in nerve cell wiring that reroutes information differently in male and female brains. More…
Fred Sanger Obituary
Nature carries an obituary of the late Dr Fred Sanger, double Nobel Prize winner for amino acid and DNA sequencing. The article, written by Professor Sir John Walker, who worked with Sanger at the LMB, describes him as “happiest at the laboratory bench, where he worked tirelessly and single-mindedly”. More…