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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.

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  • Unlocking the secrets of the brain – From autism and schizophrenia to Alzheimer’s lab-grown mini-brains could be the key to solving the biggest mysteries about human development and disease
    Authors Arney, Kat Source Science Focus 5 January 2018 Year 2018
    Details Subject Madeline Lancaster, from the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, discusses how lab-grown ‘mini-brains’ could be the key to solving the biggest mysteries about human brain development and disease. Keywords Madeline Lancaster; ‘mini-brain’; organoids; brain stem cells; ‘rosettes’; ‘black box’; ‘brain Lego’; epilepsy; Alzheimer’s disease; telomeres; autism
  • Walther Flemming Award 2018 for Clemens Plaschka
    Authors Research Institute of Molecular Pathology Source Research Institute of Molecular Pathology 21 August 2018 Year 2018
    Details Subject Clemens Plaschka, a former post-doctoral researcher in Kiyoshi Nagai’s group in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, has won the 2018 Walther Flemming Award. Keywords Clemens Plaschka; Walther Flemming Award; German Society for Cell Biology; kiyoshi Nagai; spliceosome; alumni: RNA
  • Why alcohol increases your chance of developing cancer
    Authors Paul Brackley Source Cambridge Independent Year 2018
    Details Subject LMB scientists have showed that alchohol damages stem cells- causing permanent damage to DNA. Keywords Alcohol; Acetaldehyde; DNA
  • Why two brains are better than one
    Authors Ball, Philip Source The Guardian 31 March 2018 Year 2018
    Details Subject Philip Ball, science writer at The Guardian, has had a ‘mini-brain’ grown from a sample of skin from his arm. He talks to the Madeline Lancaster, and others, to find out how scientists are using such organoids to understand brain growth and disease Keywords Madeline Lancaster; neurodegenerative disease; mini-brains; Alzheimer’s; tissue; stem cells; fibroblasts; embryo research; “pluripotency”; Shinya Yamanaka; induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs); tau proteins
  • Winner of 2018 FAOBMB Young Scientist Award (Male)
    Authors Nagley, Phillip Source Federation of Asian and Oceanian Biochemists and Molecular Biologists 1 February 2018 Year 2018
    Details Subject Dr Varodom Charoensawan, former PhD student in the Structural Studies Division, has been awarded the FAOBMB Young Scientist Award for his work on the systems regulating gene expression. Keywords Varodom Charoensawan; alumni; award; Newton Advanced Fellowship; structural studies; systems biology; FAOBMB
  • Winner of Brain Prize 2018, Prof Michel Goedert, on our best hope for tackling Alzheimer’s disease
    Authors Brackley, Paul Source Cambridge Independent 24 March 2018 Year 2018
    Details Subject Michel Goedert, winner of Brain Prize 2018, believes our best hope of fighting Alzheimer’s disease lies in learning to predict who will get it and preventing it from developing in the first place. Keywords Brain Prize; Michel Goedert; Alzheimer’s; neurodegenerative diseases; Claude Wischik; Tony Crowther; Michal Novak; John Walker; Cesar Milstein; Ross Jakes; Maria Grazia Spillantini; plaques; tangles; tau protein; prion-like; aggregates; beta-amyloid deposits; Richard Henderson; Sjors Scheres
  • £2.1m to help develop drugs that stop cancer cells growing
    Authors Cambridge Independent Source Cambridge Independent 23 August 2017 Year 2017
    Details Subject David Barford will lead a five-year project that aims to identify and develop potential new drugs to stop cancer cells growing. Keywords David Barford; APC/C complex; grant; Cancer Research UK; drug compounds; cancer cells; funding; Science Committee Programme Awards
  • 2000 enjoy open day at world-famous city laboratory
    Authors Paul Brackley Source Cambridge Independent 21 June 2017 Year 2017
    Details Subject Paul Joins visitors as they quiz scientists, try hands on experiments and tour the facility with 10 Nobel prizes to it’s name Keywords Nobel Prize; Open day; Mini brain; DNA
  • A chain of events: Linear ubiquitin chains, whose very existence once debated, now known to play a critical role in an inflammatory disease, thanks to the discovery of an enzyme
    Authors Mukhopadhyay, Rajendrani Source ASBMB Today 5 January 2017 Year 2017
    Details Subject David Komander’s group are amongst a group of scientists researching the enzymes of the ubiquitin system, which has already shown how mutations in the gene for OTULIN, an enzyme belonging to the OTU family of deubiquitinases, cause a rare systemic inflammatory disease Keywords David Komander; Rune Damgaard; Andrew McKenzie; FAM105B; enzymes; OTULIN; ubiquitin; LUBAC; mutations; inflammation; deubiquitinase; Met1-linked chains; NF-κB
  • A new view of the spliceosome
    Authors Everts, Sarah Source Chemical & Engineering News 26 May 2017 Year 2017
    Details Subject Kiyoshi Nagai’s group capture important state of cellular machine responsible for making humans more complex than worms Keywords Cellular machine; worm; Caenorhabditis elegans; spliceosome; RNA; genome; cryo-electron microscopy; atomic; ribonucleoproteins; Kiyoshi Nagai; Pei-Chun Lin; Clemens Plaschka; Nature journal; splicing
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