“The prize was awarded to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, a US scientist at the Medical Research Council’s prestigious Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, the American Thomas Steitz at Yale University, and an Israeli, Ada Yonath at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot.” More…
Cambridge chemist wins Nobel prize for showing how proteins are made in cells
3 win Nobel for Ribosome research
“Three scientists who showed how the information encoded on strands of DNA is translated into the thousands of proteins that make up living matter will share the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry” More…
Nobel Prize for chemistry of life
“The 2009 chemistry Nobel Prize has been awarded to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath. The prize is awarded for the study of the structure and function of the ribosome – the cell’s protein factory. The ribosome translates genetic code into proteins – which are the building blocks of all living organisms. It is […]
NOBELini Awards
“The NOBELini scheme paired 30 young scientists with 30 design students in a bid to celebrate scientific discovery…The winners of the NOBELini award for the “Emotional Patterns: Feedback and Development” were Ev Yemeni (LMB) and Celine Marcq.” More…
Human Antibodies developed for Treatment of Lupus and Anthrax
Two therapies with their roots in antibody technology developed in the LMB and the Scripps Research Institute* have recently emerged as promising new drug candidates to treat lupus, a potentially fatal autoimmune disease, and anthrax, a pressing concern due to bioterrorism. The drug candidates—belimumab (BENLYSTATM, formerly LumphoStat-B®), developed by Human Genome Sciences with GlaxoSmithKine as […]
DNA pioneers to get new £197m lab
“A £67m investment by the government has cleared the way for the rebuilding of the internationally-renowned Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB). The Cambridge-based laboratory has produced 14 Nobel Prize winners and is where DNA coding was first unravelled. The funds enable the Medical Research Council, which runs LMB, to meet the £197m cost of a […]