To celebrate the DNA 60 anniversary, several Australian scientists have released statements about the wonders of DNA, including LMB alumnus Professor Suzanne Cory: “The time I spent in his department at the famed MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge marked me indelibly”… More
Huzzah To The Double Helix! It’s International DNA Day
DNA 60th Anniversary celebrated at Cambridge
On the 25th April 1953, Francis Crick and Jim Watson published their groundbreaking paper in Nature, in which they revealed to the world the double helical structure of DNA. Francis and Jim were working in the MRC Unit for the Study of the Molecular Structure of Biological Systems (now the LMB), housed in the Cavendish […]
Ari Helenius to deliver 2013 Max Perutz lecture
This year’s Max Perutz lecture on “Five ways for viruses to enter the animal cell” will be given by Ari Helenius. The lecture takes place on 30 April at 2.30pm in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre at the LMB and is open to all interested in attending. Since 1997 Ari Helenius has been Full Professor […]
World premiere for music inspired by human genomes
The world premiere of a piece of music inspired by human genetic variation will be the centrepiece of the 3rd biennial Royal Greenwich String Quartet Festival on Saturday 13 April. Produced by award-winning composer Deirdre Gribbin, during her period as Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the LMB, it is also the subject of discussion on […]
Busy year of public engagement starts with Big Bang
The LMB is presenting a wide range of public engagement events and activities throughout 2013 to celebrate the move to its new building and the MRC Centenary. Over a dozen scientists and staff from the LMB volunteered to take part in the first two days of the Big Bang show at ExCeL London (14-15 March). […]
Greg Winter receives Canada Gairdner International Award
Sir Gregory Winter, from the LMB’s PNAC Division and a former Deputy Director of the LMB, has been awarded a 2013 Canada Gairdner International Award – one of the world’s most important medical research prizes. Greg won the Award: “For the engineering of humanized monoclonal antibodies and their widespread use in medical therapy, particularly for […]