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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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Coronavirus: How the virus works
Authors Highfield, Roger Source Science Museum Group 22 May 2020 Year 2020

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Subject Science Museum blog: The development of COVID-19 treatments, tests, drugs and vaccines will be accelerated by molecular understanding of the COVID-19 virus. Roger Highfield, Science Director, looks at what is happening in the LMB Keywords COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Yorgo Modis; ‘Nobel prize factory’; virus; coronavirus; electron microscopy; Richard Henderson; cryo-EM; X-ray crystallography; John Briggs; Andrew Carter; Leo James; Sjors Scheres; cells; ‘non-structural protein’ (NSP); RNA; Sean Munro; ACE2; spike; polyprotein; Julian Sale; immune response; Jan Löwe; Radu Aricescu; Harvey McMahon; David Barford; John Sutherland; antibodies; Avigan; Remdesivir; Chris Oubridge; Felix Randow; Lori Passmore; Venki Ramakrishnan; Phil Holliger; phages; Madeline Lancaster; ‘mini brains’; organoids; Julian Gough; risk factors; genetics; genotype; protein reagents
Coronavirus: The Spike
Authors Highfield, Roger Source Science Museum Group 25 November 2020 Year 2020

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Subject Many COVID-19 drugs, vaccines and tests depend on ‘the spike’. Roger Highfield, Science Director, talks to John Briggs and finds out all there is to know about 2020’s most infamous protein Keywords COVID-19; John Briggs; SARS-CoV-2; atomic level; virus; cryo-EM; X rays; 3D reconstruction; spike; coronavirus; angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2); ‘Brownian motion’; ‘hook’; receptor binding domain (RBD); hijack the cell; glycoprotein; neutralising antibodies; immune system; vaccines; RNA; ‘vectors’; adenovirus; Julian Sale; ‘druggable pocket’; Radu Aricescu; Andrew Carter; Leo James; Yorgo Modis; Jan Löwe; Sjors Scheres; diagnostic reagent; D614G; immunoglobulin G (IgG); IgM; IgA; John Meurig Thomas; ‘Nobel prize factory’
Cryo-electron microscopy reaches resolution mileston
Authors Peplow, Mark Source C&EN 27 September 2020 Year 2020

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Subject Detailed protein structures are fueling drug-discovery efforts Keywords Cryo-EM; Richard Henderson; GABAA: COVID-19; Titan Krios microscopes; X-ray crystallography; Radu Aricescu; Sjors Scheres; Christopher Russo; SARS-CoV-2; 100 keV; protein
Did life emerge in the ‘‘primordial soup’’ via DNA or RNA? Maybe both
Authors MRC Source Cambridge Network 04 June 2020 Year 2020

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Subject The research, led by scientists from Laboratory of Molecular Biology, shows for the first time how some of the building blocks of both DNA and RNA could have spontaneously formed and co-existed in the 'primordial soup' on Earth. Keywords DNA RNA
Dr. Jailson Brito Querido
Authors Ferro, Diana Source RNA Society 22 September 2020 Year 2020

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Subject RNA Society Spotlight features Jailson Brito Querido, a postdoctoral researcher in Venki Ramakrishnan’s group. Jailson describes how he became interested in RNA biology, why he wanted to come to the LMB, and who his scientific hero is Keywords Jailson Brito Querido; Venki Ramakrishnan; RNA Society; Marie Curie; helcases; translation; elF4A; career
Dr. Kelly Nguyen
Authors Keane, Sarah Source RNA Society 3 July 2020 Year 2020

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Subject RNA Society Spotlight has a feature on Kelly Nguyen, a Group Leader in the Structural Studies Division. Kelly describes the inspirations that led to her working in RNA structural biology, her experience of starting her group, and her advice for younger scientists Keywords Kelly Nguyen; Tom Steitz; Kiyoshi Nagai; Jade Li; cryo-EM; telomerase structure; mentor; Davos; RNA Society
Eleven researchers receive EMBO Installation Grants to establish independent laboratories
Authors Kießling, Tilmann Source EMBO News 21 January 2020 Year 2020

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Subject Piotr Szwedziak, a former PhD student and post-doctoral researcher in Jan Löwe’s group, has received an EMBO Installation Grant to establish an independent laboratory and joins the EMBO Young Investigator Network Keywords Piotr Szwedziak; alumni; Jan Löwe; Installation Grants; EMBO; Young Investigator Network; funding
EMBO welcomes thirty Young Investigators
Authors Kiessling, Tilmann Source EMBO 1 December 2020 Year 2020

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Subject LMB Alumnus Tanmay Bharat is among 30 life science researchers within their first four years as group leaders to become EMBO Young Investigators Keywords Tanmay Bharat; EMBO Young Invetigators; award; alumni
Ernst Joachim Ungewickell: 1950-2020
Authors Linton M. Traub, Frances M. Brodsky Source Journal Of Cell Biology Vol.219; No.011 Year 2020

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Subject Ernst, contributor to our knowledge of intracellular transport coats, died in Hanover on 19 August, 2020. He spent a year at the MRC in 1982 Keywords Ernst Ungewickell Germany Branton Laboratory: Barbara Pearse
Football is just a branch of science for Cambridge United Women midfielder Gisela Otten
Authors Taylor, Mark Source Cambridge Independent 7 December 2020 Year 2020

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Subject Gisela Otten, post-doctoral researcher in Felix Randow’s group in the LMB’s PNAC Division, talks to the Cambridge Independent about her route to joining Cambridge United WFC and combining this with her scientific career Keywords Gisela Otten; Cambridge United women’s team; midfield; football; bacterial infections; Church; Felix Randow