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Tuberculosis remains the world’s deadliest infectious disease.
Lalita Ramakrishnan’s group, @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social & @medcambridge.bsky.social, studies how TB thrives, including what drives its drug tolerance.
Read more: new.express.adobe.com/webpage/GdOa...
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Kate McDole, Group Leader in @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social joins The Light-Sheet Chronicles podcast to talk building light-sheet microscopes, imaging development and why errors always occur in the middle of the night.
Listen here: youtu.be/tAjlZ6by0P8?...
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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Archaea How a discovery in the 1970s changed the theory of the origin of complex life on earth.

On today’s episode of BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time, @buzzbaum.bsky.social, Group Leader in @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social, joined for a discussion on all things archaea.
Check it out here (requires BBC login): www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Kelly Nguyen announced as finalist of 2026 Blavatnik Awards in the UK. Kelly’s face and name on a black background with blue patterns.

@kellythd-nguyen.bsky.social, Group Leader in the Structural Studies Division, has been announced as a Finalist in the 2026 Blavatnik Awards for her work on telomerase.

Congratulations to Kelly and to all the other Finalists!

Read more here: blavatnikawards.org/news/items/y...

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How RNA reveals clues to life’s origins on Earth The discovery of catalytic RNA transformed our understanding of life's beginnings. Clare Sansom explores how the RNA world hypothesis bridges the gap between non-living chemistry and the first cells

How did life on Earth begin?

LMB Group Leader John Sutherland posits that the building blocks for life could have emerged simultaneously from early-Earth chemistry, kickstarted by hydrogen cyanide.

Read more about this field of research here: www.chemistryworld.com/features/how...

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Brain Balls Scientists can now grow tiny, human brain balls. They’re useful, but are they alive?

@lancasterlab.bsky.social, Joint Head of the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, dives into the world of brain organoids with @latif.bsky.social at @radiolab.bsky.social 🧠

Listen via the link: radiolab.org/podcast/brai...

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Talent race ‘wide open’, say US researchers heading to UK Two of the first beneficiaries of £54 million Global Talent Fund discuss how US funding uncertainties – as well as desire for home comforts – influenced their decision to move

In an interview with @timeshighered.bsky.social, @sventruckenbrodt.bsky.social, Group Leader of the LMB’s Neurobiology Division, shares his motivations for moving to the LMB & how Global Talent Funding has helped.

Register to read: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/talent-...

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The LMB is proud to be a founding member of the newly launched National Research Organisations (NRO) Group – a new alliance of 35 UK research centres dedicated to #MakingResearchMatter for people, communities & the economy.
Learn more: nrogroup.org
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How to Build A Synthetic Human Chromosome - Science Museum Blog Roger Highfield, Science Director, describes the first real stride toward writing human genomes from scratch.

Last week, LMB researchers led by Jason Chin and @juliansalelab.bsky.social published their work detailing the first step towards building human genomes.
Read more about the significance of this work from @rogerhighfield.bsky.social here: blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/how-to-build...
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Can we build a human?

Madeline Lancaster joined Brian Cox & a panel of experts for the @crick.ac.uk & BBC Studios podcast A Question of Science, to answer this question.

Find the episode here: www.lnk.to/AQOSBioengin...

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#ICYMI, @jefferis.bsky.social’s group recently published the first complete connectome of an entire male Drosophila central nervous system with @hhmijanelia.bsky.social and other collaborators.
Read more about the work here: www.janelia.org/project-team...
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Lori is an Official Fellow of @clarehallcambridge.bsky.social and, as she explains in this video, has worked closely with @au.dk since launching her research group at the LMB.

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Professor Lori Passmore receives honorary titles from Cambridge and Aarhus - Clare Hall We are thrilled to announce that Professor Lori Passmore, Official Fellow of Clare Hall and a distinguished structural biologist based at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, has rece...

Congratulations to LMB Group Leader @lapassmore.bsky.social, who has recently been appointed Honorary Professor of the University of Cambridge and received an Honorary Doctorate from Aarhus University in Denmark!

www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-lori...

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Celebrating our JWI Award Winners Each year, the JWI Awards celebrate the incredible people working across our sector, championing progress, wellbeing, sustainability and leadership. As always, this year’s entries were inspiring, and ...

Team of the Year for LMB’s Biological Services Group in the Janet Wood Innovation Awards
Congratulations!

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Tau filaments formed into their distinctive paired helical filaments in Alzheimer's disease

#ICYMI spearheaded by Sofia Lövestam, Michel Goedert & @sjorsscheres.bsky.social's groups have identified a combination of 12 residues in tau’s fuzzy coat which, when mutated, facilitates assembly of amyloid filaments.
Read more in AlzForum: www.alzforum.org/news/researc...
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E. coli genome has been remade with 101,000 changes to its DNA The recoded bacterium uses only 57 of the 64 possible genetic codes, freeing up seven to be used for different purposes

#ICYMI, @newscientist.com spoke to Wes Robertson, Group Leader in the LMB’s PNAC Division, about the ‘gargantuan effort’ behind synthesising E. coli with just 57 codons:
www.newscientist.com/article/2490...
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Leading lights of UK research spearhead search for world's best talent 12 leading universities and research institutions selected to deliver government’s £54 million fund to recruit world’s top researchers.

LMB Director Jan Löwe welcomes UK Global Talent Fund announcement:
"Global talent has always driven LMB breakthroughs. We welcome efforts to remove barriers for researchers wishing to relocate - diverse minds fuel innovation and helps us stay globally competitive."
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Why proteins matter The what, the why, and the AI...

Just why are proteins so important?

This week, The Naked Scientists podcast is discussing all things protein, including talking to Alan Fersht and Wes Robertson from the LMB’s PNAC Division.

Find the episode here: www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/nak...

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology hands Constructive Bio a game-changer for next-gen tech roll-out Constructive Bio in Cambridge now holds the exclusive licence to ‘tRNA Display’ technology from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. It means the company can start a full commercial rollout of its...

@businessweekly.bsky.social reports that the LMB has licenced game-changing ‘tRNA Display’ technology to Constructive.Bio, a spinout based on Jason Chin’s research.

Read more: www.businessweekly.co.uk/posts/mrc-la...

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AstraZeneca, BioNTech and CIC back Sortera Bio's £7.5m pre-seed round Sortera Bio, a Cambridge biotech based on IP developed at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, has attracted big hitting backers for a £7.5m pre-seed round to power AI models for drug discovery. T...

@businessweekly.bsky.social‬ reports that LMB spinout Sortera Bio has raised £7.5m pre-seed investment from AstraZeneca, BioNTech and CIC

Read more: www.businessweekly.co.uk/posts/astraz...

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Congratulations to LMB Group Leader & Joint Head of our Neurobiology Division @annebertolotti.bsky.social who has been announced as the 2025 recipient of @iubmb.bsky.social’s Jubilee Award Lecture in recognition of her research on protein quality control mechanisms!
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Emmanuel Derivery (@deriverylab.bsky.social in @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social) speaks to @jcellsci.bsky.social about the motivations behind his career, the exciting field of protein design & advice for new Group Leaders.
Full interview: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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BBC World Service - The History Hour, Discovering the haemoglobin structure and the Nellie massacre One of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century and the Nellie massacre

“It was like discovering a new continent.”

BBC’s History Hour revisits the moment Max Perutz discovered the structure of haemoglobin, featuring archival interviews with Max and contributions from LMB emeritus scientist Alan Fersht.

Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

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From the importance of mentorship to her love of martial arts, @kellythd-nguyen.bsky.social, Group Leader in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, was recently profiled as a ‘Cell scientist to watch’ by @jcellsci.bsky.social
Full interview here: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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When Science Meets Dance What happens when Year 10 students choreograph a dance piece inspired by a neurobiologist’s talk? Helen Frost, Head of Dance at Linton Village College, explains all in our blog.

Linton Village College’s Year 10 students choreographed a dance piece inspired by @denisewalker.bsky.social research on the neurobiology of touch and pain 🕺🧠

Find out more: www.artsmark.org.uk/blog/when-sc...

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Akaash Kumar stands next to his multispectral imaging hardware which features several cameras. Behind him, a computer screen shows a colourful cellular image captured with his new microscopy system.

Congrats to @akaashkumar.bsky.social who has won the PhD Award from the Cambridge Centre for Physical Biology for his work developing a novel microscopy system with @deriverylab.bsky.social & @jamesdmanton.bsky.social in @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social.
www.physbiol.cam.ac.uk/akaash-kumar
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