The lab making food healthier and medicine cheaper
16 Dec 2024 Dr Nicola Patron is cultivating a new kind of biotechnology, where we can read nature’s blueprints and direct its energy to more potent ends.
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Plant ‘thermometer’ triggers springtime budding by measuring night-time heat
27 Oct 2016 A photoreceptor molecule in plant cells has been found to moonlight as a thermometer after dark – allowing plants to read seasonal temperature changes...
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Dr Frederick Sanger (1918-2013)
20 Nov 2013 Dr Frederick Sanger, recognised by many as the “father of genomics”, died in 2013 at the age of 95. The founding member of the MRC Laboratory of...
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Her Majesty the Queen opens the new MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
23 May 2013 The new building for the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge was officially opened by Her Majesty the...
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