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New role for brain's support cells in controlling circadian rhythms
Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have found that support cells called astrocytes can actually lead the tempo of the body’s internal clock and have been shown for the first time to be able to control patterns of daily behaviour in mammals. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - January 10, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: news

Scientists find a new way to target norovirus family
MRC scientists have taken a major step forward in understanding how a family of viruses, including norovirus, initiate infections. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - January 10, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: news

New Year's Honours 2019
Individuals closely connected with the MRC have been recognised in the 2019 New Year’s Honours list. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - January 3, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: news

Gene variations linked to higher risk of diabetes and heart attacks
People who are less likely to put on excess fat around their hips due to their genes are at higher risk of type 2 diabetes and heart attacks, according to a new study led by scientists from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Epidemiology Unit. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - December 21, 2018 Category: Research Source Type: news

MRC researcher Professor Bobby Gaspar to star in the BBC RI Christmas Lectures
Bobby Gaspar, whose gene therapy trial into the rare‘Bubble Baby’ disease has been supported by the MRC since 2007, will be interviewed as part of the iconic Royal Institution Christmas Lectures broadcast on BBC Four this December. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - December 20, 2018 Category: Research Source Type: news

Professor Sir David Weatherall: 1933-2018
It is with great sadness that we learnt of the death of Sir David Weatherall, founding Director of the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - December 10, 2018 Category: Research Source Type: news

Funding boost for initiative mapping entire human body
The MRC, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), is investing£6.7 million to support the UK’s contribution to mapping every cell type in the human body, through the global Human Cell Atlas initiative.  (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - December 6, 2018 Category: Research Source Type: news

Pioneering 100,000 Genomes Project reaches sequencing goal
The 100,000 Genomes Project has reached its goal of sequencing 100,000 whole genomes from NHS patients. Established with the support of the MRC, the project began in 2012 to uncover new diagnoses and improved treatments for patients with rare diseases and cancer. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - December 6, 2018 Category: Research Source Type: news

New funding scheme supporting clinical research capacity
A new funding scheme has been launched to enable NHS consultants to participate in high-quality collaborative research partnerships. The MRC has committed£10 million to pilot the scheme and the National Institute of Health Research will commit up to£2 million additional funding. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - November 30, 2018 Category: Research Source Type: news

UK and Chinese researchers to collaborate on fight against superbugs
Four major new China-UK research collaborations will tackle antibacterial resistance thanks to an£8 million investment by the UKRI AMR Cross Council Initiative through the Newton Fund and 36 million RMB from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - November 28, 2018 Category: Research Source Type: news

New insights into maturation of ear hair cells critical for hearing
A key regulator that controls how an inner ear cell critical for hearing– called outer hair cells– mature, has been discovered in mice by a team led by scientists at MRC Harwell and the University of Maryland. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - November 22, 2018 Category: Research Source Type: news

New dual-action cancer-killing virus
Scientists have equipped a virus that kills carcinoma cells with a protein so it can also target and kill adjacent cells that are tricked into shielding the cancer from the immune system. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - November 19, 2018 Category: Research Source Type: news

Two-pronged device enables immune cells to identify and kill cancers
Immune cells called Gamma Delta T cells can act independently to identify and kill cancer cells, defying the conventional view of the immune system, reveals new research. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - November 13, 2018 Category: Research Source Type: news

Poxvirus tricks cells into moving to spread infection
Vaccinia virus, a poxvirus closely related to smallpox and monkeypox, tricks cells it has infected into activating their own cell movement mechanism to rapidly spread the virus, according to a new study led by scientists at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - November 12, 2018 Category: Research Source Type: news

Decades of discovery set to revolutionise healthcare
Over the recent years, advances in technology have allowed many more diagnostic tests to be carried out at the patient’s bedside rather than the laboratory bench. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - November 1, 2018 Category: Research Source Type: news