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Dr Nicola Patron in her lab

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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Daffodil

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...

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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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Sir Hugh Pelham with HM The Queen

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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