AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is a key evolutionarily conserved sensor of energy homeostasis, which is implicated in metabolic health and disease, as well as in ageing. Here, we show that direc...

The Medical Research Council Mitochondrial Biology Unit (MRC MBU), University of Cambridge, wishes to appoint two post-doctoral Research Associates to join the research group of Prof. Mike Murphy at t...

Investigator Scientist (Roving Researcher) (LMS 2369) Salary £42,159 – 44,801 plus London Allowance (£5,560) per annum | 2 years fixed term | Full time | Closing Date: 21 June

Team Science Project

The Medical Research Council (MRC) has made a major investment in a series of industry collaborations with eight diverse teams from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) to accelerate innovatio...

In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.

PhD Project - FULLY FUNDED PhD - Identifying Critical Periods for Mitochondrial Function in Drosophila Development and Lifespan at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Achieving Gold LEAF accreditation marks a significant milestone in our commitment to making research at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) more sustainable and signals the start of an ongoin...

In our new Understanding Ageing: Meet the Scientists series, we’ve invited experts in their field to talk about their research and what it means for each of us as we get older. You don’t need any scie...

An international team of scientists led by researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS), Imperial College London and the University of Cologne have discovered that microbes associated w...

This spring, the Trump administration rescinded a grant that maintained FlyBase, a pillar of global basic research, as part of its broader $2.2 billion funding cuts at Harvard.

Martinez-Martinez et al. combine a host-microbe-drug-nutrient screen with multi-omics to reveal how the cancer-associated microbiota modulates chemotherapy. They identify 2-methylisocitrate, a microbi...

We are recruiting for a Head of Bioinformatics to lead our Bioinformatics facility

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A public symposium organised by friends, scientific colleages and David's wife Ros Diamond to cellebrate David Ish-Horowiccz's, FRS, scientific achievements,...

Robust and controlled intestinal regeneration involves reciprocal interactions between the intestinal epithelium and its microenvironment. Here, we id…

It is widely accepted that susceptibility to infection increases with age. The reason often invoked is the dysregulation of the immune system, which is both cause and consequence of ageing. However, w...

Scientists from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) and Imperial College London have produced the first detailed characterisation of the changes that weight loss causes in human fat tissue by...

Bioinformatics Facility - Dr George Young and Electron Microscopy Facility - Dr Ricardo Aramayo

Redox signalling is emerging as an important regulator of metabolism and physiology, which is dysregulated in ageing and disease. Here, the authors show that redox regulation of a key redox sensitive ...