Lara Krüger

@lara-kruger.bsky.social

How do 'all cells come from cells'?

Deeply honored to be elected as an EMBO member. This would not have been possible without the incredible past and present members of my lab - thank you for your dedication, creativity and total lack of fear over the years 🔬🪰🧪

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology@mrclmb.ac.uk · 3mo ago

Congratulations to LMB Group Leaders Emmanuel Derivery, Kelly Nguyen and Julian Sale, who have all been elected members of @EMBO.org! Read more about their research at the LMB here: mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/... #LMBNews @deriverylab.bsky.social @kellythd-nguyen.bsky.social @juliansalelab.bsky.social

Portrait photographs of Julian Sale, Emmanuel Derivery and Kelly Nguyen

How could a simple self-replicating system emerge at the origins of life? RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but existing ones are so large that their self-replication seems impossible. Could they be smaller? Excited to share our latest work in @science.org on a new small polymerase. 1/n

A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself and its complementary strand

The emergence of a chemical system capable of self-replication and evolution is a critical event in the origin of life. RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but their large size and structural ...

science.org

Lets goo (very soon)... Merci beaucoup to the exquisite @deriverylab.bsky.social at the amazing @mrclmb.bsky.social. I had a lovely, lovely time!

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology@mrclmb.ac.uk · 2y ago

Congratulations to @lara-kruger.bsky.social, postdoc in @deriverylab.bsky.social in @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social, who is leaving the LMB to establish her own research group at @institutcurie.bsky.social in Paris! Best of luck to you Lara! #LMBAlumni

Lara Krüger, stood in the LMB atrium, smiling.