On Saturday 1st July the LMB welcomed over 2500 visitors in an exciting day of family-friendly, hands-on activities, tours, and talks about the LMB’s cutting-edge research.
LMB welcomes over 2500 visitors to an action-packed Open Day
New insights into how DNA synthesis is started during the process of chromosome replication
By determining cryo-EM structures of budding yeast and human replisomes Joseph Yeeles group in the LMB’s PNAC Division reveal a conserved mechanism for the coordination of nascent-strand priming.
The Chin group unveils gene synthesis breakthrough
Business Weekly cover recent research from Jason Chin’s group in the LMB’s PNAC Division which details their new technologies for continuous genome synthesis. They also include comment from Constructive Bio, a spinout company founded by Jason Chin, who expand on the application possibilities for this research. More…
Keeping protein subunits in check via assembly quality control
Cells eliminate “orphan” proteins that have failed to assemble into the molecular machines within which they normally function. Manu Hegde’s group have now elucidated the mechanism by which one type of orphan is selectively recognised and tagged for destruction.
LMB alumnae return to share their career stories at the fourteenth LMB-Cambridge AWiSE event
Anne Cooke, Stephanie Pilkington and Hayley Sharpe returned to the LMB as speakers at this year’s ‘What Next for Your Career’ event, highlighting the importance of a good work-life balance, finding the right mentors, building networks and staying in touch with old colleagues as powerful tools for future opportunities.
Great British Railway Journeys visits LMB to learn about the significance of the discovery of the structure of DNA
At the end of his Brandon to Cambridge railway journey, Michael Portillo visits the LMB to talk to Venki Ramakrishnan about the significance of the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick. Venki shares how the team solved this puzzle by combining data from various sources, including X-Ray […]