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Articles

The LMB Archive collates scanned/digitised newspaper, magazine and web articles that relate to the activities of the LMB. This database lists the articles that have been catalogued so far.

These articles are the copyright of the originating organisation. They may be accessed for reference-only purposes at the LMB. Alternatively, you can contact the copyright holder for direct requests to access or use their articles.

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  • 101 jobs that change the world – David Street
    Authors UK Research and Innovation Source UKRI 12 July 2021 Year 2021
    Details Subject Highlighting non-traditional jobs which support research and innovation, UKRI have profiled David Street, a member of the LMB’s Estates and Facilities team Keywords David Street; Estates and Facilities; Electrical Engineer; career; ‘behind the scenes’; tours; Arts and Crafts Show; change the world
  • A unique venue of discoveries in structural chemistry and structural biology: the 75‐year and 60‐year jubilees of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology—a personal tribute
    Authors Istvan Hargittai Source Structural Chemistry September 2021 Year 2021
    Details Subject In 1962, the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, moved into a new building and continued a success story that had begun 15 before. Milestone discoveries and Nobel Prizes have followed ever since. They have led to profound changes in our basic ideas about the nature of life and the way medicine operates. Structural chemistry has paved the way for this unprecedented progress. Keywords Structural biology Helix structures Watson and Crick Richard HendersonHargittais
  • Cell scientist to watch – Alexey Amunts
    Authors Pálfy, Máté Source Journal of Cell Science 1 July 2021 Year 2021
    Details Subject Alexey Amunts shares insights into his career to date, including his time at the LMB in Venki Ramakrishnan’s lab, the importance of open science and collaboration, in an interview with the Journal of Cell Science. Keywords Alexey Amunts; Venki Ramakrishnan; cryo-EM; alumni; career; collaboration; Israeli army; Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab); ribosomes
  • Defining myself as a mother scientist
    Authors Shahbazi, Marta N. Source Cell Stem Cell 6 May 2021 Year 2021
    Details Subject As part of a series covering how researchers have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Science Direct have featured Marta Shahbazi and her experience of juggling being a new group leader and a new mother during lockdown. Keywords Marta Shahbazi; COVID-19; mother; coronavirus pandemic; double life; Group Leader
  • Donald Caspar (1927-2021)
    Authors Makowski, Lee Source Nature 6 January 2022 Year 2021
    Details Subject Don Caspar, LMB alumnus, has died at the age of 94. Don first came to the MRC Unit for the Study of the Molecular Structure of Biological Systems (now the LMB) as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 1955 Keywords Don Caspar; tobacco mosaic virus (TMV); James Watson; Francis Crick; spherical virus particles; cubic symmetry; icosahedral symmetry; tomato bush stunt virus; Aaron Klug; quasi-equivalence; rod-shaped; alumni; obituary; Rosalind Franklin; X-ray crystallography; electron microscopy; fibre diffraction
  • Double Spiral Sets TDP-43 Apart from Other Amyloids
    Authors ALZFORUM Source ALZFORUM 10 December 2021 Year 2021
    Details Subject A recent paper from Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon’s group reveals the first atomic structure of TDP-43 filaments from the brains of people with ALS and FTD diseases. Keywords Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon; TDP-43; ALS/FTD; brain; double-spiral fold; filaments; amyloidogenic protein; C-terminal fragments; tau
  • Dr Wasi Faruqi’s structural biology work at the LMB recognised
    Authors Cambridge Independent Source Cambridge Independent 16-22 June 2021 Year 2021
    Details Subject Wasi Faruqi Is awarded an MBE for services to medical research in the Queen’s Birthday honours. Keywords Abdul (Wasi) Faruqi; Queen’s Birthday honours; MBE; cryoEM; Richard Henderson; X-ray crystallography; award
  • Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators
    Authors Eppendorf Corporate Source Eppendorf Corporate 25 June 2021 Year 2021
    Details Subject Tanmay Bharat has been awarded the 2021 Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators for his research on the structure and function of protective layers surrounding prokaryotic cells Keywords Tanmay Bharat; Award; Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators; prokaryotic cells; alumni; antibiotics; prize; filamentous phages; pathogenic bacteria
  • Exhibition room opens at MRC LMB
    Authors Paul Brackley Source Cambridge Independent 14 July 2021 Year 2021
    Details Subject An exhibition room has been launched by the LMB director. Visitors will be able to learn about LMB history and its current research. Keywords electron cyromicroscopy sample holders cryo‑EM
  • Family values – Learn about newly elected EMBO Member Alex Bateman and his work on protein families
    Authors Kießling, Tilmann Source EMBO 9 June 2021 Year 2021
    Details Subject Alex Bateman, a former PhD student in Cyrus Chothia’s group in the Structural Studies Division, has been elected a member of EMBO for his work on protein families Keywords Alex Bateman; EMBO Member; Cyrus Chothia; protein sequences; ‘protein families’; genome; EMBL-EBI; Pfam database; UniProt: Rfam; RNAcentral; ‘periodic table’; machine learning; Hinxton; alumni
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