One of the pioneers of structural molecular biology, Sir Aaron Klug, former Director of the LMB, has given his extensive archive to the Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge. There it will join the archives of fellow LMB scientists and Nobel Laureates, Max Perutz and César Milstein, and the notebooks of his former colleague, Rosalind Franklin. Aaron’s […]
Nobel Laureate, Sir Aaron Klug, donates his archives to Churchill Archives Centre.
Eureka Moments: making proteins, making a difference
“In the second of the Biochemical Society’s video interviews with our Honorary Members, Michael Neuberger and Brian Hartley talk to Sir Greg Winter about his role as a pioneer of therapeutic antibodies.” More…
No DNA needed, RNA goes solo
“Philipp Holliger and his co-workers at LMB have engineered an RNA enzyme to synthesize another active RNA enzyme from an RNA template. This models one theory for how life originated on Earth: with RNA molecules that both encoded genetic information and catalysed reactions to express that information.” More…
LMB hosts Feldberg Prize Lecture by Roland Lill.
Professor Roland Lill from the Institute of Cytobiology, Philipps University Marburg, Germany, will deliver the Feldberg Prize Lecture on Friday April 15th at 4.15pm in the LMB’s Max Perutz Lecture Theatre. The lecture is open to anyone locally who is interested in attending. Roland graduated from the Universities of Ulm and Munich and then earned […]
LMB scientists reconstruct ‘Nature’s first enzyme’.
The origin of life is one of the great, unsolved mysteries of biology. In a quest to improve understanding of how life might have originally emerged, a group of LMB scientists have managed to construct an enzyme that can mimic how the first forms of life may have arisen and begun to evolve – before […]
Biologists create one of life’s first enzymes
“tC19Z, synthesised in Phil Holliger’s lab at LMB, could be a version of one of the first enzymes that ever existed on our planet – and a clue to how life itself got started.” More…