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Venki Ramakrishan chosen for ‘Padma Vibhushan’, India's highest civilian award

"Padma Awards, the country’s highest civilian awards, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri... ‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for exceptional and...

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Flash frozen under the electron microscope: Examining the mechanical...

"By using electron microscopic images of flash frozen samples, researchers have now been able to examine the exact structure of Alzheimer’s amyloid fibrils and to assess their mechanical properties. As...

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A new line of research in the fight against Alzheimer's disease and dementia

"Etienne-Emile Baulieu's research team (Inserm research unit 788 "Steroids, neuroprotection et neuroregeneration"), in collaboration with Michel Goedert (who originally characterised the Tau protein in...

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Genetic coding revamp

"Scientists have developed a new genetic language using a ribosome that can read instructions that are 4 base pairs long, enabling the construction of designer proteins containing a variety of...

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Newly Elected Fellows

"Seventy-eight microbiologists have been elected to Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology. Fellows of the Academy are elected annually through a highly selective, peer-review process,...

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Clocking off: the new science of sleep

"Does your body run like clockwork? As Week 7 fatigue sets in, Michael Hastings writes on what recent discoveries in genetics mean for our sleeping patterns ... Dr Michael Hastings is a Cambridge...

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Studying the Individual Cell

"Researchers are taking advantage of new tools and techniques in imaging, sequencing, and proteomics to zoom in on what single cells are doing ... Paul Dear at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology...

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Cancer-causing viruses exploit genetic achilles heel, finds study

"Scientists say some viruses can turn cells into 'viral hotels' by exploiting tiny molecules derived from human DNA. The UK study [directed by Cancer Research UK and in collaboration with LMB] found...

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Bicycle Therapeutics Signs License Agreement with EPFL and Adds SR One and...

"Bicycle Therapeutics Ltd, a new biotechnology company developing a novel technology platform for the identification and optimisation of chemically constrained cyclic peptides with high target...

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New endowed chair honors pioneering woman who ‘brought the fireworks’ to...

"On the night he learned he’d won the 1962 Nobel Prize, legend has it that DNA co-discoverer Francis Crick threw himself quite a party: angry neighbors, cops, the works. One of the guests, it seems,...

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Transcriptional control in flies

"In a paper recently published in Genome Biology, Boris Adryan (Cambridge University) and Sarah Teichmann (LMB) have presented evidence that calls in to question currently-held beliefs about how...

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How do cells crawl?

"The amoeboid movement by which many types of cell crawl across surfaces has fascinated scientists ever since it was first observed using the earliest microscopes. Until recently, it has remained...

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UK-Europe collaborations harness biology for engineering

"Four new projects, announced today, will develop biological methods that offer a new approach to antibiotic production, power generation for extremely small mechanical components, new classes of...

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Heptares Therapeutics extends multi-fte chemistry collaboration with oxygen...

"Executives from Heptares Therapeutics (Welwyn Garden City, UK) and O2h (Cambridge, UK) announced today an extension of the agreement under which O2h provides multi-FTE -synthetic chemistry services to...

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Video interviews of ERBI conference

"This is a series of brief film interviews with entrepreneurs, scientists and company executives from the ERBI region [including Dr Richard Henderson and Sir Gregory Winter from LMB] speaking about a...

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This Week in Science

"In an advance, online publication of Science this week, investigators [Dr KJ Patel] at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, and their colleagues report that the "disruption of...

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Grant Winners - Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

"Sixteen transnational projects have received EUR24 million (£20 million) in funding under ERASysBio+, an initiative involving ministries and funding agencies from 13 countries that seeks to coordinate...

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The microscope that can see a flea's beating heart

" The best of the UK's cutting-edge science, engineering and technology are on display at London's Southbank Centre as the Royal Society opens its summer science festival. One of the exhibits on...

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One decade on: Sequencing the Human Genome

"Tomorrow marks the 10 year anniversary of sequencing the human genome. Decades of Medical Research Council (MRC) research into DNA and the human genome have led to the development of technologies such...

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Giant 'Mesolens' observes in incredible detail

"Once, microscopes were simple. If you wanted to examine something, you'd kill it, chop it into slices, then stick the slice that you're interested in under the microscope. Today, however, microscopes...

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Giant New Lens Shows Minutest Of Cells

"Scientists have come up with a giant-lensed microscope to allow them to see the minutest of cells. The "Mesolens" microscope is described as revolutionary because of how it could transform laboratory...

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Section of access road to be named after DNA scientist

"A road leading to a new £200 million Cambridge laboratory is to be named after legendary scientist Francis Crick. Dr Francis Crick Dr Francis Crick Francis Crick Avenue will run through the Cambridge...

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Cambridge road to be named after legendary scientist

"The road leading to a new laboratory will be named after renowned scientist Dr Francis Crick... Hugh Pelham, the director of the Laboratory for Molecular Biology, explained how the decision came...

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Cambridge beats old rival in Workplace Cycle Challenge

"The latest manifestation of the age-old rivalry between Cambridge and Oxford has been won by the light blues. Both cities ran Workplace Cycle Challenges between 7 and 27 June but it was Cambridge that...

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Receptive receptors

"One route to developing new drugs is to look at targeting the hundreds of G-protein-coupled receptors that are not currently exploited clinically... Richard Henderson of the Medical Research Council...

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Body clock pills 'could cure jet lag and manic depression'

"A team of British and American scientists have found a drug which can slow down, kick start and reset the body clocks of mice. It does this by altering a key enzyme which controls the process, called...

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Body Clock Drugs Could Ease Psychiatric Disorders and Jet Lag

"Researchers have successfully used a drug to reset and restart the natural 24 hour body clock of mice in the lab. The ability to do this in a mammal opens up the possibility of dealing with a range of...

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Secrets of the shaking palsy

"Parkinson's disease might have much in common with Alzheimer's disease, prion diseases and other protein-aggregation disorders... Like many other researchers, Goedert [LMB] now suspects that...

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Cambridge research key to UK economy, says Minister

"The Minister also attended a topping out ceremony at the new £200m building for the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. The new building, due to open in 2012, will...

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1st patient treated with BAN2401

"First Alzheimer’s patient treated with BAN2401, a novel antibody targeting the neurotoxin believed to cause Alzheimer’s disease... Antibody humanization, also known as CDR-grafting (CDR is a synonym...

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'Topping out' of MRC Laboratory in Cambridge

"Work on the RMJM designed new building for the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge has reached the first major stage of completion with its topping out on...

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BBC Look East 'Topping out' of MRC Laboratory in Cambridge

"The coverage of the 'Topping Out' ceremony shown on BBC Look East can be seen by clicking on the more link" 10 September 2010

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Expanding the Genetic Code

"The best career advice Jason Chin ever received came from an organic chemistry professor, biological chemist John Sutherland, who joined Chin recently as a colleague at the Medical Research Council...

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Life on Earth May Have Had an Icy Start

"Cracks in ice could have served as a safe environment — much like a cell — for the first life on Earth to replicate and evolve. A new study adds plausibility to the ‘RNA World’ hypothesis that argues...

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Life's cold start

"The hot spot for life on early Earth may have been a very cold place. Tiny pockets and channels that form inside ice can contain and protect replicating molecules, researchers report September 21 in...

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Biography captures Sydney Brenner's unflagging scientific curiosity and...

"From helping to decipher the genetic code to establishing the worm C. elegans as a model organism, and from directing the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge to advising research institutes...

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Brain cartography: the fly mating dance neurons mapped

"How the bundles of neurons in the brain controls behaviour remains an ongoing mystery. Researchers from the Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), in Vienna, Austria, and the Laboratory of Molecular...

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Scientists find way to refine botox for new uses

"British scientists have developed a new way of joining and rebuilding molecules and used it to refine the anti-wrinkle treatment botox in an effort to improve its use for Parkinson's, cerebral palsy...

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The lost correspondence of Francis Crick

"Alexander Gann and Jan Witkowski unveil newly found letters between key players in the DNA story. Strained relationships and vivid personalities leap off the pages... It turns out that this lost...

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'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...

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BBC radio Cambridge 7.20am

BBC radio Cambridge 7.20am 21.10.10: Dr Matthew Freeman, MRC LMB Group Leader, welcomes the LMB funding decision outlined in the spending review" 1 October 2010

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Laboratory of Molecular Biology: Master of science

"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...

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Immune discovery opens up new line of attack against viruses

"The immune system has been found to target viruses inside cells, suggesting new strategies against infections including the common cold and winter vomiting bug. They are mankind's greatest killer and...

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A cure for the common cold may finally be achieved as a result of a...

"In a dramatic breakthrough that could affect millions of lives, scientists have been able to show for the first time that the body's immune defences can destroy the common cold virus after it has...

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Tom Peck: Yet another triumph for the place they call 'the Nobel Prize factory'

"The lab got its 14th Nobel award last year. It traces its roots back to the discovery of the DNA double helix. Revelations about man's abilities to battle viruses are just the latest "Eureka" moments...

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Virus breakthrough raises hope over ending common cold

"Scientists say they have made a landmark discovery which could pave the way for new drugs to beat illnesses like the common cold. Until now experts had thought that antibodies could only tackle viral...

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BBC Radio 4 Today

Interview of Dr Leo James - 2 November 2010

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BBC News 24 : Hopes over 'ending' common cold

BBC News video clip related to Dr Leo James' discovery about how the body fights viruses. 2 November 2010

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Cell science breakthrough could beat common cold

"New research suggests the immune system can fight viruses from within healthy cells. Science Correspondent Tom Clarke says the discovery is a "real game-changer" in the fight against the common cold."...

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Cold virus clue found

"British researchers say that they've identified a mechanism that antibodies use against viruses, the CBC's Kelly Crowe reports." 3 November 2010

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