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• Maths at their fingertips
  Authors Campbell-Johnston, Rachel Source The Times, 9 April 2008, p.12 Year 2008
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  Subject Review of the exhibition “Beyond Measure” at Kettle’s Yard [which included Aaron Klug’s original virus models.] Keywords Tariq Ahmed; art; Arts Catalyst; Christoph Bergemann; Beyond Measure; Dana Institute; Leonardo da Vinci; Fermi; Buckminster Fuller; geometry; Eve Hild; Kettle’s Yard; Aaron Klug; Leonardo da Vinci; mathematics; Allan McRobie; Claude Monet; David Nash; John Pickering; James Turrell; Johannes Vermeer; Wellcome Foundation; Father Magnus Wenninger
• New dimension discovered in body clock rhythm
  Authors MRC Source MRC News & Publications, 16 May 2008 Year 2008
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  Subject Research on what makes the body clock tick has led LMB’s Michael Hastings to discover a new and unanticipated cog in the human body clock. A patent for the compound involved has been filed by MRC Technology. Keywords body clock; c-AMP; circadian rhythms; Michael Hastings; MRC Technology; Science; suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN)
• New World Class Laboratory To Boost Medical Research
  Authors Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills Source Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, [June 2008] Year 2008
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  Subject A £200 million rebuild of the LMB was given the go-ahead by John Denham, Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills. Keywords Leszek Borysiewicz; Cambridge University; John Denham; Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS); Large Facilities Capital Fund; LMB-2; Nobel Prize
• New World Class Laboratory To Boost Medical Research – £200 Million Rebuild Of The Internationally Renowned Laboratory Of Molecular Biology
  Authors Medical News Today Source Medical News Today, 25 June 2008 Year 2008
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  Subject A £200 million rebuild of the LMB was given the go-ahead by John Denham, Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills. Keywords asthma; Leszek Borysiewicz; Cambridge University; John Denham; Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS); Herceptin; Large Facilities Capital Fund; LMB-2; monoclonal antibodies; Nobel Prize
• Nobel Prize winner opens new building
  Authors Cambridge News Source Cambridge News, 21 October 2008, p.21 Year 2008
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  Subject Aaron Klug officially opens the new Medimmune building named after him, on Granta Park, Abington. Keywords AstraZeneca; Aisling Bernarn; John Granger; Jane Osbourn; Granta Park; Peter Kiener; Aaron Klug; Medimmune
• R&D opening adds to Granta reputation
  Authors Cambridge News Source Cambridge News, 4 November 2008, p.24 Year 2008
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  Subject Aaron Klug opens the refitted R&D facility at Granta Park, which is named in his honour. Keywords Rick de Blaby; John Granger; Granta Park; Aaron Klug; MedImmune
• Reactivating protein mutants – a new way to cure cancer?
  Authors Chem@Cam Source Chem@Cam, Autumn 2008, pp.8-9 Year 2008
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  Subject A profile of Alan Fersht and his work on proteins. His work at LMB is featured in his ‘CV’. Keywords Brandeis University; Sydney Brenner; cancer; chess; Francis Crick; Alan Fersht; Marilyn [Fersht]; Naomi [Fersht]; Phil [Fersht]; [Gonville and] Caius [College]; Herchel Smith Professor of Organic Chemistry; Dorothy Hodgkin; Imperial College; Bill Jenks; Tony Kirby; Aaron Klug; p53; Max Perutz; protein folding; proteins; Royal Society Wolfson chair; Walthamstow
• Rosalind Franklin: 50 years on
  Authors Glynn, Jenifer Source Notes & Records of the Royal Society 62 (2), June 2008, pp.253-55 Year 2008
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  Subject Jenifer Glynn remembers her sister, Rosalind Franklin. Past and present LMB members are mentioned, as well as the lab’s tobacco mosaic virus model. Keywords Desmond Bernal; Francis Crick; DNA; double helix; Rosalind Franklin; Raymond Gosling; Kings College; Aaron Klug; Brenda Maddox; Newnham [College]; Nobel Prize; Robert Olby; Anne Sayre; St Paul’s; tobacco mosaic virus model; James Watson; Maurice Wilkins
• Scientists need freedom to create Planck Club for this era
  Authors Brabden, Donald (and others) Source Financial Times, 2 June 2008 Year 2008
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  Subject Letter to the Financial Times undersigned by many scientists (including LMB’s Peter Lawrence) arguing that scientists need more freedom. Keywords John F. Allen; [Oswald] Avery; Donald Braben; [Francis] Crick; Adam Curtis; John Dainton; [Albert] Einstein; Nigel Franks; Dudley Herschbach; Pat Heslop-Harrison; Steve Howdle; Herbert Huppert; [John] Kendrew; H. Jeff Kimble; Harry Kroto; Peter Lawrence; Philip Moriarty; Martyn Poliakoff; David Price; Nobel Prize; [Max] Perutz; [Max] Planck; Planck Club; Douglas Randall; David Ray; Peter Rich; Ken Seddon; Robert Solow; Gene Stanley; Harry Swinney; [Charles Hard] Townes; Robin Tucker; Nick Tyler; Claudio Vita-Finzi; [James] Watson
• Spat between rival research teams blamed on ‘science scoop’ pressure
  Authors Corbyn, Zoë Source Times Higher Education, 13 November 2008 Year 2008
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  Subject A group of academics has claimed that a rival research team at Stanford University has failed to give appropiate acknowledgement to their work in a paper published in the journal Cell. LMB’s Peter Lawrence was the lead author of the original (2004) paper. Keywords Jeffrey Axelrod; Cell; Chen; Development; Peter Lawrence; Jean-Francois Le Gerrec; Marek Mlodzik; Connie Lee; Stanford University; Gary Struhl; David Strutt; University of Sheffield