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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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  • Scientists set up firm to sell ideas
    Authors Cambridge Evening News Source Cambridge Evening News 18th June 1990 Year 1990
    Details Subject Cambridge scientists have set up their own company to sell antibodies. Cambridge Antibody Technology Ltd (CAT) will commercially exploit the recent rat-human antibody which can kill cancer cells. The new company will also aim to market new discoveries for anti cancer drugs and anti-viral drugs. Keywords CAT Sir Aaron Klug; Dr Winter; Monoclonal antibodies; Protein
  • The shy man who unravelled DNA: Max Perutz on a little-known scientist who sparked a revolution
    Authors Perutz, Max Source The Daily Telegraph, October 29, 1990 Year 1990
    Details Subject Oswald Avery, who discovered that genes were made of DNA and set the biological revolution in motion Keywords J. L. Alloway; Oswald Avery; Francis Crick; M. H. Dawson; Fred Griffiths; M. Kunitz; Colin MacLeod; Maclyn McCarty; Alfred Mirsky; J. H. Northrop; Max Perutz; R. H. P. Sia; James Watson
  • Big prizes in small packages
    Authors Clive Cookson Source Financial Times 19th October 1989 Year 1989
    Details Subject New ways of making antibodies developed independently by British and American Scientists promise to increase the scope of the biotechnology industry. Keywords Antibodies; Greg Winter
  • Centrally directed research ‘wont work’
    Authors Fulton Gillespie Source Cambridge Evening news 14th July Friday 1989 Year 1989
    Details Subject Threats to scrap the MRC- LMB. The proposals came from a business dominated review body. It’ll be responsible for overseeing and funding of all scientific research. Keywords Perutz; Nobel prizes; Klug;
  • Genome Mapping Goal Now in Reach
    Authors Roberts, Leslie Source Science 244 (4903), 28 April 1989, pp.424-425 Year 1989
    Details Subject New mapping strategies may allow scientists to map the human genome within 5 years. Keywords Alzheimer’s; Dorra Cherif; Cold Spring Harbor; contig; David Cox; DNA; Steve Goss; Henry Harris; human genome project; Eric Lander; Peter Lichter; mapping; Richard Myers; National Institutes of Health (NIH); Maynard Olson; saturation hybridization; situ hybridization; Evani Viegas-Pequigot; David Ward; James Watson
  • Minister attacks ‘individualists bias’
    Authors Unknown Source 23rd September 1989 New Scientist Year 1989
    Details Subject Britain’s scientific community was accused by the minister responsible for higher education and research, Robert Jackson of encouraging and excessive individualism. Keywords Robert Jackson; Margaret Thatcher; British Association for the Advancement of Science.
  • The flatworm’s turn
    Authors Ezzell, Carol Source Nature 339, 29 June 1989, p.648 Year 1989
    Details Subject The nematode may be the first higher organism to have its genes ordered onto a physical map. Researchers at LMB are helping to break down the genome. Keywords [George] Bush; contigs; flatworm; genome; Michael Kemp; model organisms; nematode; NIH Office of Human Genome Activities; US National Institute of Health (NIH); Robert Waterson; James Watson; Norton Zinder
  • Watson Floats a Plan to Carve Up the Genome
    Authors Dickson, David Source Science 244 (4904), 5 May 1989, pp.521-2 Year 1989
    Details Subject The head of the US genome project suggests giving individual countries responsibility for specific chromosomes. Sydney Brenner is also quoted in the article Keywords Michael Andrews; Sydney Brenner; Ralph Christoffersen; chromosomes; Pete V. Domenici; genome; Walter Gilbert; Human Genome Mapping Organization (HUGO); Victor McKusick; MRC Molecular Genetics Unit; Soviet Academy of Sciences; US National Institute of Health (NIH); James Watson
  • Advance in ‘magic bullet’ technology
    Authors The Times Source The Times 24th March 1988 Year 1988
    Details Subject Scientists at the LMB have made an advance in using monoclonal antibodies to target and deliver effective drugs against tumours Keywords Monoclonal anitibodies; mice; rat; magic bullets; Greg Winter
  • Antibody achievement
    Authors The Independent Source The independent 28th March 1988 Year 1988
    Details Subject Cambridge Scientists have invented a new kind of disease and cancer fighting molecule, partly human in origin and partly in rats Keywords Greg Winter; Antibody; Rats
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