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  • TRIM21 is both enzyme and substrate when creating a signal to degrade bound viruses and proteins
  • Linda Amos (1943 – 2021)
  • Packaging molecular motors for delivery
  • “A journey of small steps” – celebrating Women in Science at the LMB
  • The race to repurpose nature’s protein factories
  • Targeting RNA replication in SARS-CoV-2
  • Furin protease is not essential for SARS-CoV-2 infection
  • Madeline Lancaster awarded the 2021 ISSCR Dr Susan Lim Award
  • How the fate of immune cell precursors is decided
  • A new 2D protein material for studying receptor endocytosis
  • Lights, Crafts and Charity: Christmas at the LMB
  • The many strange long-term symptoms of Covid-19, explained
  • Alexander Bates wins the 2020 British Neuroscience Association Postgraduate Award
  • Claudia Bonfio wins the Dream Chemistry Award
  • Women of the Nobel factory share their stories: Nature book review of ‘Ahead of the Curve’
  • A mission to Mars and how the first life on Earth survived its biggest threat – water
  • Football is just a branch of science for Cambridge United Women midfielder Gisela Otten
  • Cell scientist to watch – Hayley Sharpe
  • A celebration of LMB women scientists at the launch of “Ahead of the Curve”
  • TRIM21 links antibody and T cell immunity to combat viral infection
  • First structure of a fungal GPCR
  • Tanmay Bharat announced as EMBO Young Investigator
  • Coronavirus: The Spike
  • Ribosomal rescue in our mitochondria
  • A connection between stress detection and lifestyle decisions in worms
  • Elyse Fischer wins the IUBMB Whelan Young Investigator Award
  • Charles Darwin’s hunch about early life was probably right
  • A new layer of complexity in GPCR signalling could explain differences in receptor function and drug response
  • The brain’s immune defence comes from your gut
  • From dawn to dusk: a day in the life of an LMB PhD student
  • Student and postdoc prizes awarded for outstanding work
  • Ruth Lehmann awarded Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science
  • Opening of LMB Containment Level 3 lab fast-tracked to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Atomic advance for cryo-EM
  • SARS-CoV-2 disrupts the brain barrier in human organoids
  • Liz Miller: Signed, sealed, delivered – protein trafficking in the endoplasmic reticulum
  • Ampersand by Sam Shendi exhibited outside the LMB
  • Freezing molecules completely still for cryo-EM
  • Patrick Chitwood wins the Birnstiel Award
  • Telling the tale of tangled tau in Alzheimer’s disease
  • RNA Society Spotlight on LMB postdoc Jailson Brito Querido
  • Julian Gough wins Academic Entrepreneur of the Year award
  • Structural clues for influenza virus assembly and disassembly
  • Catching the ribosome in the act of scanning mRNA
  • Sydney Brenner. 13 January 1927 – 5 April 2019
  • Scientists create a drug that could repair damage to the brain and spinal cord
  • Kelly Nguyen honoured with Suffrage Science award
  • Chris Oubridge (1966-2020)
  • A synthetic molecule that can restore lost connections in the brain
  • A simple, novel mechanism to safeguard the integrity of the human genome
  • Discovery of a chaperone for membrane proteins
  • Studying the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2
  • Championing non-aversive mouse handling
  • Hayley Sharpe wins a 2020 Lister Institute Research Prize
  • From metastasis to your favourite biscuit: connecting with school students from home
  • Yanlan Mao is awarded the 2021 Royal Microscopical Society Medal for Life Sciences
  • Alan Fersht and Marta Zlatic win Royal Society Medals
  • Membrane characteristics tune enzyme activity
  • A map to show the way to sense smell, temperature, and humidity
  • The LMB welcomes Buzz Baum as a new Group Leader
  • A new directed evolution technique to unlock the potential of XNAs
  • Putting science skills to new use during the pandemic
  • How cells avoid and resolve ribosome traffic jams
  • The LMB welcomes Ana Tufegdzic Vidakovic as a new Group Leader
  • First complete atomic model of condensin lays foundation for understanding chromosome compaction
  • Balancing an appropriate immune response in the gut
  • Chris Tate and Marta Zlatic elected to EMBO membership
  • A cellular pacemaker in the central body clock
  • Katja Röper: Development of tubular organs
  • The origin of life on Earth explored at the LMB using a flask and a lamp
  • RNA Society Spotlight on Kelly Nguyen
  • A focus on how Sarah Caddy’s research has transitioned to COVID-19
  • Researchers in Vienna, including LMB PhD student Max Kellner, develop a new “quick and easy” COVID-19 test
  • High-resolution structure of a GPCR-arrestin complex
  • Cell-invading bacteria are converted into signalling platforms that may trigger septic shock
  • Marta Shahbazi wins 2019 3Rs prize for applying new in vitro models to study early embryo development
  • Brain organoids with the potential to predict drug permeability
  • Revolutionary microscopy technique sees individual atoms for first time
  • Primitive genetic alphabet based on RNA and DNA
  • Venki Ramakrishnan is elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society
  • First structures of α-synuclein filaments from human brain
  • Coronavirus: how the virus works
  • Patrycja Kozik: From starry nights to immunology
  • Are some people at greater genetic risk from Covid-19? MRC LMB seeks DNA volunteers
  • Put your genes to work: contribute to medical research
  • Tracing a transcription initiation factor’s molecular journey across evolutionary timescale
  • LMB participates in UK-wide COVID-19 Protein Portal to provide essential reagents for SARS-CoV-2 research
  • Unravelling the replisome: how a molecular machine overcomes obstacles to DNA replication
  • Anthony Hyman has been elected an international member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • William Schafer elected Fellow of Royal Society
  • Ankyrins: a missing molecular link in mechanical senses
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  • Professor Kim Nasmyth awarded the 2021 Centenary Award by Biochemical Society
  • A splice of life – Chemistry World looks at how structural biology has revealed the secrets of the spliceosome
  • Daffodils announce LMB staff’s fundraising for Marie Curie
  • Paul Dear (1962 – 2020)
  • Scientific collaboration to focus on search for new, improved detectors for low energy cryo-EM
  • Wanda Kukulski: Unlocking the secrets of membrane biology
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