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Daniel McGillivray Brown. 3 February 1923 – 24 April 2012Authors Michael J Gait’s Source Royal Society 7 November 2018 Year 2018
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Subject Michael Gait’s Biographical Memoir about Dan Brown Keywords Dan Brown; nucleic acid; nucleosides; hydroxylamine on cytidine; ‘bis-adduct’; RNA; X-ray crystallography; Brian Clark; Sydney Brenner; John Karn; David Loakes; Daniela Rhodes; Brian Sproat; Paul Kong; Naveen Anand; John Walker; mis-pairing; bicyclic deoxyriboside (dP); memoir; John Smith; oligodeoxyribonucleotides; base-pairs; mutagenesis -
Decades of discovery set to revolutionise healthcareAuthors MRC/UKRI News Source MRC/UKRI News 1 November 2018 Year 2018
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Subject A summary of key milestones that show how discovery science has been translated into a novel technology set to revolutionise healthcare. Keywords Jim Watson; Francis Crick; Maurice Wilkins; Rosalind Franklin; double helix; X-ray diffraction; crystallography; Fred Sanger; Human Genome Project; ‘Sanger method”;bacteriophage virus; dideoxy chain; Nobel Prize; Sydney Brenner; John Sulston; C. elegans; sequencing; Nanopore sequencing; MinION -
Dr Jan Löwe on the next frontier for MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in CambridgeAuthors Paul Brackley Source Cambridge Independent 12 December 2018 Year 2018
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Subject Part one of an interview with Jan Löwe describes how a long-term vision has had such success for the LMB and how such an approach could be used by LMB scientists to map the brain Keywords Jan Löwe; Greg Winter; Richard Henderson; Nobel Prize factory; Hugh Pelham; cryo-electron microscopy; Aaron Klug; CT scanners; Sjors Scheres; 3D structure; X-ray crystallography; Venki Ramakrishnan; ribosome; Sydney Brenner; neurons; human brain -
Dr Jan Lowe reveals next big challenge for ‘Nobel Prize factory’Authors Paul Brackley Source Cambridge independent 5th December 2018 Year 2018
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Subject Science Keywords Jan Lowe discusses the ground breaking technology the LMB uses to explore the next frontier for it’s scientists. -
Dr Jan Löwe says he’s ‘humbled’ to take over as director of MRC Laboratory of Molecular BiologyAuthors Paul Brackley Source Cambridge Independent 14 February 2018 Year 2018
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Subject Deputy Director, Jan Löwe, will be taking over from Hugh Pelham as Director of the LMB this spring Keywords Jan Löwe; new director; Hugh Pelham; “excited and humbled”; ‘Nobel Prize factory’; Richard Henderson -
Dr M Madan Babu of MRC LMB wins prize for insights into the machinery inside our cellsAuthors Paul Brackley Source Cambridge Independent 21 March 2018 Year 2018
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Subject In the first year that the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists have been extended to the UK, M. Madan Babu is named Life Sciences Laureate for his work on the structure of proteins, including G-protein coupled receptors which are major drug targets, and disordered regions. Keywords Blavatnik Award; Madan Babu; Life Sciences Laureate; G-protein coupled receptors (GCPRs); ‘intrinsically disordered regions’ IDR; computational biology; ‘pocket’; proteins; mutation -
Dr Magdalena Skipper appointed editor-in-chief at NatureAuthors Page Benedicte Source Bookseller 2 May 2018 Year 2018
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Subject Magdalena Skipper has been appointed editor-in-chief at Nature, becoming the first woman to hold the role in its almost 150-year history. Keywords Magdalena Skipper; editor-in-chief; Nature; first woman -
Dr Richard Henderson (m1966) Honorary Fellow and Nobel Prize winnerAuthors The Pelican (Corpus Christi magazine) Source The Pelican 2018 Year 2018
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Subject Richard Henderson looks back over his life and scientific career Keywords Richard Henderson; Max Perutz; John Kendrew; Nigel Unwin; X-ray crystallography; David Blow; chymotrypsin; Director; electron microscopy; Nobel; -
Dr. Melina Schuh Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Institute), GöttingenAuthors Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Source Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 17 December 2018 Year 2018
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Subject The latest recipients of Germany’s most prestigious research prize, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize have been announced, and includes former LMB group leader, Melina Schuh. Keywords Melina Schuh; 2019 Leibniz Prize; meiosis; trisomy 21; reproductive biology; human egg cells; alumni; Group Leader; chromosome segregation -
‘Drinking alcohol damages DNA and raises cancer risk’Authors Sally Guyoncourt Source The i 4 January 2018 Year 2018
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Subject KJ Patel has led a study into how drinking alcohol increases your risk of cancer Keywords KJ Patel; cancer; DNA; ethanol; damage; alcohol; acetaldehyde