“Hugh Pelham, director of the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, was knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours last June . The investiture took place at the palace yesterday…” This article is no longer available from the source website: Cambridge News 10 February 2012
Scientist is knighted
New technology for the rapid, site-specific labeling of proteins
“Jason Chin, Kathrin Lang and Lloyd Davis from LMB and colleagues at the North Carolina State University have created specially engineered mammalian cells to enable researchers to label proteins of interest more efficiently. As reported in Nature Chemistry…” More…
Evolution at the lab bench
“Interested in overcoming the PCR inhibitors often present in complex environmental samples, Phil Holliger and colleagues decided the best solution to the problem was to re-engineer a better polymerase – an ‘evolved’ polymerase that offered resistance to the environmental inhibitors.” This article is no longer available from the source website: Biotechniques 2 February 2012
Focus on Jason Chin
“EMBO Member Jason Chin, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, talks about reprogramming the genetic code and re-engineering ribosomes and the possibility of building a parallel biological system. He also talks about in-vivo experiments in biochemistry, gives advice to young researchers and how he benefitted from being an EMBO Young Investigator.” More…
£1500 Raised for Acorn House Charity
Hugh Pelham, Director of the LMB, recently presented Joy Worship, Manager of Acorn House, The Sick Children’s Trust, with a cheque for £1496.30, which was raised at the LMB’s annual Christmas Charity Raffle. Joy was delighted with the gift and said that the contribution would go towards the £68,000 annual running costs of Acorn House, […]
The sweet way of detecting bacterial invasion in cells
Felix Randow’s group in the LMB’s PNAC Division has identified Galectin-8 as a novel danger receptor and factor of the cellular machinery that protects human cells against bacterial invasion. Galectin 8, a sugar-binding protein in the cytosol, was discovered to be a key component in limiting the growth of Salmonella and to participate in the […]