Exactly one hundred years ago, the UK government of the day established an organisation to take care of medical research on behalf of the 1911 National Insurance Act. This article is no longer available from the source website: Cabume 13 November 2013
Cambridge blockbusters and 100 Years of the MRC
Did life have very cold beginnings?
An idea that combines two likely ingredients of genesis has been put forward by Philip Holliger from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. One ingredient is the idea that there was an ‘RNA world’ before the current DNA world. The other comes from the idea that a key factor in evolution was the emergence of […]
Jason Chin inducted into the European Inventor Hall of Fame
Jason Chin, from the LMB’s Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry Division, has been inducted into the European Inventor Hall of Fame, at a ceremony in Munich on 17 October 2013. The European Inventor Hall of Fame is a travelling exhibition that honours outstanding innovation and creativity, and has been commissioned by the European Patent Office […]
LMB researchers one step closer to the ‘RNA world’
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 […]
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 […]