“The Medical Research Council’s new chromosome-shaped lab in Cambridge is an example of how attention to detail and planning can deliver complex buildings on time and to budget …. This attention to detail extends throughout the whole of Power’s domain. He is the construction manager for Bam, which has the contract to build the Laboratory […]
Laboratory of Molecular Biology: Master of science
Imagining the Brain – Science through Art
The LMB has been invited to exhibit 18 pieces of work from the “Imagining the Brain” initiative at an art/science collaborative project exploring mental health problems, from a variety of perspectives, including those suffering and those researching solutions. “Inside the Unquiet Mind” is a multi-sensory multi-media arts installation with musical performances and presentations from Cambridge […]
‘Flagship institution for science’ looks to future
“Scientists were celebrating in Cambridge last night after vital Government funding was spared the chop – and a city laboratory received a cash windfall. Despite warnings from Business Secretary Vince Cable that funding could be cut in areas which were “neither commercially useful nor theoretically outstanding”, yesterday’s Comprehensive Spending Review revealed that the £4.6 billion […]
Understanding how toxins can affect the mechanism of the ribosome
Dr Venki Ramakrishnan’s lab from the LMB’s Structural Studies Division have uncovered the molecular mechanism by which toxins such as ricin and alpha-sarcin inhibit protein synthesis in cells. It was known that these toxins act on a highly conserved RNA loop in the ribosome, the molecular machinery which synthesises proteins in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic […]
Scientists ‘give botox a facelift’ to improve its use in medicine
Researchers led by Dr Bazbek Davletov at the LMB have developed a new method of joining and rebuilding molecules in the laboratory and have used it to refine Clostridium botulinum neurotoxin type A (more commonly known as botox). This new approach will enable researchers to improve its use as a treatment for diseases such as […]
Sexual attraction could be due to the wiring of the brain
Sexual attraction between males and females could be down to differences in the way the brain is wired up, according to work from the lab of Dr Greg Jefferis at LMB. The research was carried out in fruit flies in collaboration with colleagues at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna. Fruit flies […]