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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.

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DNA researchers win Nobel chemistry prize
Authors Wilkie, Tom Source The Independent, 14 October 1993 Year 1993

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Subject Michael Smith and Kary Mullis win 1993 Nobel prize for Chemistry Keywords Kary Mullis (California); Michael Smith; Greg Winter
DNA: what it all means
Authors Connor, Steve & Wilkie, Tom Source The Independent on Sunday, 25 April 1993 Year 1993

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Subject Information about DNA and its discovery Keywords Oswald Avery; Francis Crick; Rosalind Franklin; Friedrich Miescher; Rockefeller Institute; James Watson; Maurice Wilkins
Fact-finding brings Minister to Cambridge
Authors MRC News Source MRC News 58: 4, Spring 1993 Year 1993

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Subject Rt Hon William Waldegrave visits the LMB on fact-finding mission for forthcoming White Paper on Science and Technology Keywords Aaron Klug; Max Perutz; William Waldegrave
Fears for Nobel lab. Scientists warn of privatisation threat to research
Authors Gillespie, Fulton Source Cambridge Evening News, 17 March 1993 Year 1993

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Subject Five Cambridge Nobel prize winners are campaigning against a possible threat to privatise their former laboratory Keywords Francis Crick; John Kendrew; Georges Kohler; Fred Sanger; Jim Watson
Fight to release jailed professor
Authors Gillespie, Fulton Source Cambridge Evening News, 28 August 1993 Year 1993

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Subject An international campaign to free jailed Cambridge professor Jean-Pierre Allain is being mounted by a high-powered lobby of scientists Keywords Jean-Pierre Allain; HIV; Max Perutz
Getting blood out of a test tube
Authors Nagai, Kiyoshi Source MRC News 58: 12-14, Spring 1993 Year 1993

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Subject Safe artificial haemoglobin could soon be flowing in patients' veins, thanks to a collaboration between MRC Scientists and industry Keywords Giulio Fermi; Moboru Komiyama; Kiyoshi Nagai; Max Perutz; Somatogen (US Corporation); Gary Stetler (Somatogen); Hans Christian Thogersen
Glittering prizes … Scientific discovery began in shed
Authors Gillespie, Fulton Source Cambridge Evening News, 9 June 1993 Year 1993

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Subject A simple plaque to mark the discovery of the double helix of DNA is being unveiled in Cambridge. The News looks back on the discovery Keywords Biochemistry Laboratory; Lawrence Bragg; Sydney Brenner; Cavendish Laboratory; Francis Crick; Harold Himsworth; Hugh Huxley; John Kendrew; Aaron Klug; Cesar Milstein; Kiyoshi Nagai; The Queen; Hilary & Tensing; Max Perutz; Fred Sanger; Jim Watson; Greg Winter
'Grass' from your doc on way
Authors Evening Times Source Evening Times, 2 September 1993 Year 1993

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Subject Cannabis which does not go to your head may one day be prescribed as a medicine Keywords Cannabis; THC; [Sean Munro]
How cannabis might heal the body
Authors New Scientist Source New Scientist, 4 September 1993 Year 1993

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Subject Mounting evidence that the human body makes its own cannabis-like substance has forced researchers to look more seriously at the drug Keywords Anandamide; Cannabis; Sean Munro; THC
Hunters of the double helix – 40 years on
Authors Connor, Steve & Wilkie, Tom Source The Independent on Sunday, 25 April 1993 Year 1993

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Subject The story of DNA and the team of scientists that revealed its structure Keywords Cavendish Laboratory; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Francis Crick; Einstein; Rosalind Franklin; King's College, London; Linus Pauling; Salk Institute; US Human Genome Project; James Watson; Maurice Wilkins