PhD student Aiwei Zeng discusses her recent Policy Internship at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST).
From PhD to elite sports policy research: Aiwei Zeng’s Policy Internship
Morten Meldal shares 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Morten Meldal shares the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Carolyn R. Bertozzi and K. Barry Sharpless for “the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.” More…
Identification of pathway that enables resistance to tuberculosis
Lalita Ramakrishnan’s group, LMB Cell Biology Division and University of Cambridge Molecular Immunity Unit, has determined that increased metabolism, prompted through mTOR kinase, is a crucial resistance factor against macrophage necrosis during TB infection.
From the LMB to food supplement development: Miriam Ferrer discusses her career
For Food Matters Live, Miriam Ferrer discusses her career to date, including her time at the LMB and how her passion for science was ignited by a documentary about DNA’s double helix. More…
Anthony Hyman is joint winner of 2023 Breakthrough Prize for Life Sciences
Anthony Hyman has been jointly awarded the 2023 Breakthrough Prize for Life Sciences. Anthony, along with Clifford Brangwynne, discovered an entirely new mechanism for cellular organisation that concentrates cellular interactions between proteins and other biomolecules in membraneless droplets. Their discovery helps to advance our fundamental knowledge of cellular organisation, and is likely to have impressive […]
Identical structures of α-synuclein filaments from Parkinson’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies
The groups of Michel Goedert and Sjors Scheres, from the LMB’s Neurobiology and Structural Studies Divisions, have used cryo-EM to identify identical structures of α-synuclein filaments from Parkinson’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies.