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Read more at: Designing a Synthetic Biology Workbench: NED and the Magnificent Seven

Fig. 1: Basic properties of the S. cerevisiae MMNs under 6 different growth conditions. From: Minimisation of metabolic networks defines a new functional class of genes.

Designing a Synthetic Biology Workbench: NED and the Magnificent Seven

A paper in this week’s Nature Communications , by Prof Steve Oliver and former members of his lab, reports a major step toward improving the efficiency of industrial microbes. Generating a minimal metabolic network ( MMN ) should improve the production efficiency of engineered microbes by reducing...

Read more at: Joshua Lawrence wins prizes for PhD research

Joshua Lawrence

Joshua Lawrence wins prizes for PhD research

Biochemistry PhD student Joshua Lawrence has received the Katharine Burr Blodgett Award for his doctoral research. This prize recognises outstanding work by a recent PhD graduate in the field of colloid and interface science. The prize is named in honour of Katharine Burr Blodgett, who was the first woman to receive a...

Read more at: Translational funding awarded to advance novel cancer immunotherapy

T cells killing a tumour cell & LGR5 expression in colorectal cancer

Translational funding awarded to advance novel cancer immunotherapy

Joint funding from the Cambridge Enterprise Technology Investment Fund and Cancer Research Horizons has been awarded to researchers Marc de la Roche (Department of Biochemistry) and Maike de la Roche (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute).

Read more at: Claudia Bonfio awarded European Research Council Starting Grant

Claudia Bonfio

Claudia Bonfio awarded European Research Council Starting Grant

It is a great pleasure to announce that Claudia Bonfio has been awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant . She comes back to Cambridge from the University of Strasbourg to join the Department of Biochemistry as a research group leader, after previous postdoctoral positions here at the MRC Laboratory of...

Read more at: New technology enables faster response to disease outbreaks like COVID-19

Fig. 1: Workflow for high-throughput functional analysis of antibodies secreted by single cells.

New technology enables faster response to disease outbreaks like COVID-19

An article published in Nature Biotechnology by Katrin Fischer et al. from Florian Hollfelder ’s group in collaboration with the groups of James Thaventhiran , Marko Hyvonen , Nick Matheson and Charlotte Deane establishes a new, generalised technology for finding potentially therapeutic antibodies in response...