Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, paid a short visit to the LMB on 3 October to learn about the Laboratory’s work, find out about its recent successes in the commercial exploitation of discoveries, and get a first sight of the LMB’s new building. After a short overview of the LMB’s […]
Vince Cable pays a flying visit
Traditional greeting as Master arrives in style
Hundreds of academics and students lined up to welcome their new Master at a historic ceremony inside the walls of Trinity College yesterday. Sir Gregory Winter [former Deputy Director of the LMB] knocked at the college’s Great Gate carrying Letters Patent from the Queen… This article is no longer available from the source website: Cambridge […]
Accolades for Imagining the Brain art competition winners
The winners of this year’s Imagining the Brain competition visited the LMB on Monday 1st October for the formal awards ceremony. The Imagining the Brain art competition invites Cambridgeshire pupils with an interest in art and science to cut through the jargon usually associated with complex subjects like neuroscience and use art as a means […]
Sweet answer to the origins of life
New research, from John Sutherland and Dougal Ritson in the LMB’s PNAC division, delivers a breakthrough in the chemistry of the origin of life. Whilst some maintain that life formed elsewhere in the Universe and was transported to earth, the duo’s findings, published in Nature Chemistry, suggest that the genetic material essential for all known […]
Many Proteins Exist in a State of ‘Disorder’ and Yet Are Functional
You mention that in the biomedical community disorder is associated with disease. Your co-author M. Madan Babu of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge has written about this connection… More…
Celebrating 100 years
It’s not often that you get to celebrate a 100th birthday, but the MRC will be doing just that in 2013 […] Look out for coverage of the opening of the new MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) building in Cambridge. Three years in the building, at a cost of more than £200m, this stunning […]