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We're the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Medical Sciences. TeamScience: #Aging #SexDifferences #Environment #Genes #Metabolism #CellFate; Translation: #Multimorbidity; Training: #Transdisciplinary & #ClinicianScientist. www.lms.mrc.ac.uk

MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences

‪ Archaea are the hornets of the microbial world. Discuss. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... TLDR: Archaeon kills bacterium with secreted phospholipase. Pretty nifty way to kill bacteria for a microbe with a very different lipid make-up, I reckon. No need to worry about accidentally killing yourself.

G0 or no-G0, if you’re interested in learning the role of phosphatases in regulating quiescence and cell cycle entry read this new review by Robinson & Barr published in #BiochemSocTrans https://doi.org/10.1042/BST20250091 🧪

A new study tracks how cells prepare gene regulatory decisions that will define their fate during the earliest stages of human development and highlights how the genome’s 3D structure helps shape cell identity and could offer clues to how developmental disorders arise 🧬

Don’t forget to share your favourite recipe with artist in residence Michael McMillan to add to our community recipe book 🍽️

Now it’s your turn to join the conversation 👇 📍 Visit the LMS Gene Home at the Great Exhibition Road Festival 📅 6–7 June 🏛 Queen’s Tower Rooms, Imperial College London, South Kensington

✨ The Ubele Initiative, including Director Michael Hamilton ✨ Paulette Henry and Josephina Kwando-Yaa (JK) Abuah from Black Rootz – the UK’s first multigenerational Black-led food-growing project

We are proud to work with: ✨ Michael McMillan (www.michaelmcmillan.uk), creator of The Front Room installation, which inspired the original LMS Gene Home ✨ Georgina Weston from the Black in Biomed Summer School at the University of West London

Through a series of workshops, we brought together artists, growers, educators and community leaders to talk about food, heritage, wellbeing and the many ways our environments shape our health.

What does healthy eating mean to you? 🌱🧬 Over the last few months, we’ve been co-designing new activities for the LMS Gene Home – our immersive exhibition exploring how genes impact health, which returns to @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social’s @exrdfestival.bsky.social l this year.