On the 18th October 1962, a Post Office Telegram was sent to Francis Crick at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, telling him that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Just two weeks later, another telegram arrived for Max Perutz and John Kendrew: they had been awarded the Nobel Prize […]
Double Nobel Success – 50 Years of Inspiration
First insight into peptide-receptor interaction
LMB scientists, Chris Tate and Yoko Shibata, have collaborated with researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA, to provide the first detailed description of how a neuropeptide hormone, neurotensin, interacts with its receptor. Neurotensin modulates nerve cell activity in the brain. When bound to its receptor it commences a series of reactions in […]
Professor Sir Alan Fersht FRS becomes the 42nd Master of Caius
Sir Alan is an internationally renowned molecular biologist. He has pioneered many new fields in protein sciences and is a group leader in the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge… This article is no longer available from the source website.
Friends of FUS: Protein’s Many RNA Buddies Point to Disease
This work follows another study of FUS targets led by Jernej Ule of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, U.K., and Chris Shaw of King’s College, London. […] the authors describe FUS’ role in mediating alternative splicing, where it prevents target exons from being included in mature mRNAs… More…
LMB Congratulates John Gurdon on Nobel Prize Announcement
The LMB is delighted to congratulate alumnus John Gurdon on the award of the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. John shares the award with Shinya Yamanaka, from Japan, for their quite different work (more than 40 years apart) on reprogramming somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells. John’s key experiments on nuclear transplantations into […]
Nobel success: What makes a great lab?
William Bynum reflects on the factors that have brought nine Nobel prizes to the Laboratory of Molecular Biology… More…