Autophagy is a self-cleaning process of the cell and is crucial for cell health in the human body. A sophisticated molecular ...

Max Perutz and his 1959 model of oxygenated haemoglobin is one of the iconic images of twentieth-century biology. It encapsulates a journey that began in 1936 when, armed with a degree in ...

Perutz, who died early last year (see Nature 415, 851–852; 2002), was an extraordinary experimentalist, a hard worker at the bench and a cautious man of science.

Autophagy is essentially the "rubbish collection" of our cells. If there are problems in this process, which is so important ...

A FAVOURITE word of Max Perutz, if perhaps an unscientific one, was “Fantastic!”, with the exclamation mark given its full value. In the spring of 1953 at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge ...

Max Perutz, who has died at the age of 87, was one of the group of brilliant scientists who founded the subject of molecular biology while working at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. Perutz ...

MAX PERUTZ OM, who has died aged 87, won the Nobel prize for Chemistry in 1962 after solving the molecular structure of haemoglobin, the red protein in blood that carries oxygen from the lungs to ...

Perutz and his colleague John C. Kendrew were the first to determine the three-dimensional structure of proteins, the molecular machines that run cells. Their feat garnered them the 1962 Nobel ...

Perutz was passionately concerned with issues of asylum. During the passage of the controversial immigration legislation in 1992, he approached me, asking to make representations to the then Home ...