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City leaves the Other Place in a spin over cycling raceAuthors Elliot, Chris Source Cambridge News, 14 July 2010 Year 2010
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Subject LMB are one of the top teams competing in a three-week cycle campaign run by Cycle Cambridge to encourage more workers to travel by bike. Keywords Ben Hayward Cycles; British Antarctic Survey; Cambridge Corn Exchange; Cambridge Mechatronics; Cycle Cambridge; Mike Davies; Dogfish; Hinxton Hall; Howes Cycles; IUCN; Vanessa Kelly; Open Air Cambridge; Oxford; The Junction; UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre; Wellcome Trust -
Clocking off: the new science of sleepAuthors Hastings, Michael Source Varsity, 17 March 2010 Year 2010
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Subject LMB scientist Michael Hastings writes on what recent discoveries in genetics mean for our sleeping patterns Keywords body clock; cancer; circadian; Familial Advanced Sleep Phase Syndrome; Michael Hastings; Michel Siffre; suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) -
EMBO Gold Medalist for 2010. Jason Chin wins prestigious research prizeAuthors EMBO Source EMBO encounters Autumn 2010 p5 Year 2010
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Subject Jason Chin was awarded the EMBO Gold Medal 2010 at the EMBO meeting in Barcelona Keywords Jason Chin; designer amino acids; Damon Runyon Fellow; Scripps Research Institute; Francis Crick Prize Lecture; Kim Nasmyth; Sir Paul Nurse; Venki Ramakrishnan -
Expanding the Genetic CodeAuthors Pain, Elizabeth Source Science Careers 17 September 2010 Year 2010
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Subject Scientific biography of Jason Chin and his scientific career to date. Keywords Jason Chin; John Sutherland; Alanna Scheparz; Peter Schulz; Anton Cropp: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan; The Scripps Research Institute -
Facebook check ‘before lights out’Authors Independent.ie Source Independent.ie 5 December 2010 Year 2010
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Subject Experts have warned that online activity performed from bed is affecting people’s sleep. Keywords Michael Hastings; sleep; social networking -
‘Flagship institution for science’ looks to futureAuthors Exley, Stephen Source Cambridge News 21 October 2010 Year 2010
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Subject LMB to receive a share of £220 million funding as it is announced that the science budget remain the same for the next four years. Keywords Hugh Pelham; Comprehensive Spending Review; Vince Cable, MP; Julian Huppert, MP; David Willetts, MP; -
Flash frozen under the electron microscope: Examining the mechanical properties of Alzheimer’s amyloid fibrilsAuthors PhysOrg.com Source PhysOrg.com, 26 January 2010 Year 2010
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Subject By using electron microscopic images of flash frozen samples, researchers have now been able to examine the structure of Alzheimer’s amyloid fibrils and to assess their mechanical properties. LMB’s Carsten Sachse was involved in the research Keywords Alzheimer’s disease; amyloid fibrils; Angewandte Chemie; Marcus Fändrich; flash frozen samples; Nikolaus Grigorieff; Parkinson’s disease; Carsten Sachse; -
Francis Crick: Hunter of Life’s Secrets: an intellectual biography by Robert OlbyAuthors Huxley, Hugh E. Source FASEB Journal 24 (4), April 2010, pp.976-79 Year 2010
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Subject Hugh Huxley reviews Robert Olby’s biography of Francis Crick. Keywords Edward Andrade; Lawrence Bragg; brain; [Sydney] Brenner; canteen; Cavendish; Francis Crick; Odile Crick; Crick Week; DNA; Jacob [Francis]; [Rosalind] Franklin; [Raymond] Gosling; A. V. Hill; John Kendrew; King’s College; Georg Kreisel; Harrie Massey; Arthur Mee; Edward Mellanby; [Jacques] Monod; Royal Navy; Nobel Prize; Linus [Pauling]; Nobel Prize; Robert Olby; [Arthur] Pardee; Max Perutz; Salk Institute; [Alex] Stokes; Strangeways; University College London; [James] Watson; [Maurice] Wilkins; [Herbert] Wilson; X‑ray -
Fred Sanger. Double Nobel laureateAuthors The Times Eureka 100 Source The Times Eureka 100 October 2010 Year 2010
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Subject Fred Sanger included on the Eureka 100 list (at No. 22) of most important contemporary figures in British science. Keywords Fred Sanger; amino acid; insulin; DNA; human genome; Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute -
Genetic coding revampAuthors Akst, Jef Source The Scientist, 14 February 2010 Year 2010
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Subject Scientists have developed a new genetic language using a ribosome that can read instructions that are 4 base pairs long, enabling the construction of designer proteins containing a variety of unnatural elements. LMB's Jason Chin collaborated on on the research, and is quoted throughout the article. Keywords amino acids; Jason Chin; codons; messenger RNA; Tom Muir; Nature; protein synthesis; ribosomes; John Sutherland; transfer RNA