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Hinxton, 23 July 2008
Open access to large-scale drug discovery data
The Wellcome Trust has awarded £4.7
million [€5.8 million] to EMBL's European Bioinformatics
Institute [EMBL-EBI] to support the transfer of a large collection
of information on the properties and activities of drugs and a large
set of drug-like small molecules from publicly listed company
Galapagos NV to the public domain.
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Monterotondo, 20 July 2008
Pregnant mice block out unwelcome admirers to protect their pups
Mouse mothers-to-be have a
remarkable way to protect their unborn pups. Because the
smell of a strange male's urine can cause miscarriage and reactivate
the ovulatory cycle, pregnant mice prevent the action of
such olfactory stimuli by blocking their smell. Researchers
from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory [EMBL] in
Monterotondo, Italy, have now revealed the nature of this ability.
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Heidelberg, 11 July 2008
Teaching old drugs new tricks
Researchers from the
European Molecular Biology Laboratory [EMBL] discovered
a new way to make use of drugs' unwanted side
effects. They developed a computational method that
compares how similar the side effects of different drugs
are and predicts how likely the drugs act on the same target
molecule.
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Heidelberg / Hinxton, 9 July 2008
Zooming in on genetic shuffling
In the current issue of Nature, researchers at the
European Molecular Biology Laboratory [EMBL] in
Heidelberg, Germany, and the EMBL-European
Bioinformatics Institute [EMBL-EBI] in Hinxton, UK, present
the most precise map of genetic recombination yet. The study
sheds light on fundamental questions about genetic shuffling
and has implications for the tracking of disease genes and their
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Monterotondo, 4 July 2008
New research sheds light on the molecular basis of crib death
Researchers of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Monterotondo, Italy, have developed a mouse model of the so-called crib or cot death, which remains the leading cause of death during the first year of life in developed countries.
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Cot death trigger?
New Scientist, 12 July 2008 |
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Säuglingstod eine Kopfsache?
FAZ, 9 July 2008 |
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Plötzlicher Kindstod durch Serotoninmangel
Stuttgarter Zeitung, 8 July 2008 |
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Study suggests serotonin pays a role in SIDS
LA Times, 5 July 2008 |
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Dem plötzlichen Kindstod auf der Spur
SWR2 Radio Campus, 5 July 2008 |
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The cradle, not the grave
The Economist, 5 July 2008 |
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How serotonin imbalance could be key to explaining the mystery of cot deaths
Times, 4 July 2008 |
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Seeking to Understand Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Science Podcast, 4 July 2008 |
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New insights into SIDS
Nature News, 4 July 2008 |
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Simple test for cot death on the way
The Daily Telegraph, 4 July 2008 |
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La serotonina, vinculada a la muerte súbita del lactante
Público, 4 July 2008 |
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Temperatura y frecuencia cardiaca, posibles signos en muerte súbita infantil
Diario Medico, 4 July 2008 |
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New evidence links abnormalities in brain chemical serotonin to sudden infant death syndrome
International Herald Tribune, 4 July 2008 |
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Der Tod im Babyhirn
Zeit, 4 July 2008 |
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Article in Greek broadsheet
Vima, 4 July 2008 |
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Morte in culla, all'origine un difetto nel cervello
Il Messaggero, 3 July 2008 |
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Chemical Linked to Baby Deaths
Time Magazine, 3 July 2008 |
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Brain imbalance 'cot death key'
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Der Schrecken junger Eltern
Berliner Zeitung |
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Hinxton, 20 June 2008
Scientists fix bugs in our understanding of evolution
What makes a human different from a chimp? Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute [EMBL-EBI] have come one important step closer to answering such evolutionary questions correctly.
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![MOF antibody [red] applied to chromosomes [DNA in blue] isolated from male Drosophila larvae shows intense staining on the X chromosome and less intense staining on autosomes. On the X chromosome MOF binds towards the beginning and the end of genes. On autosomes, MOF binds mostly to the promoters of target genes.](press/2008/30may08/press30may08_s.jpg) |
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Heidelberg, 30 May 2008
X chromosome exposed
Researchers from the European
Molecular Biology Laboratory [EMBL] in Heidelberg,
Germany, and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
[EMBL-EBI] in Hinxton, UK, have revealed new insights into
how sex chromosomes are regulated.
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Hinxton, 28 May 2008
Securing the future of Europe's biological data resources
In a contract signed today, the European Commission has awarded €4.5 million to a pan-European consortium to decide upon the best way to unite Europe's biological data resources into a sustainable, integrative bioinformatics network for the life sciences. |
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Hinxton, 7 May 2008
Platypus genome sequence published
UK-based researchers at the Medical
Research Council Functional Genomics Unit in Oxford and the
European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European
Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge have revealed the genetic
makeup of the one of the world's strangest mammals.
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![The high-resolution image of the influenza virus' PB2 protein shows how the virus steals a 'cap' molecule from its host to take over the protein production machinery and multiply. PB2 binds the cap [purple] by sandwiching it between aromatic amino acids.](press/2008/04may08/press04may08_s.jpg) |
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Grenoble, 4 May 2008
Getting wise to the influenza virus' tricks
Influenza is currently a grave concern for governments and health organisations around the world. Now one of the tactics used by influenza virus to take over the machinery of infected cells has been laid bare by structural biologists at the EMBL and the joint Unit of Virus Host-Cell Interaction of EMBL, the University Joseph Fourier and National Centre for Scientific Research [CNRS], in Grenoble, France and at CSIC, Spain.
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Monterotondo, 8 April 2008
An unexpected way to cause leukaemia
New mouse model grants insight into the genetic and molecular mechanisms underpinning acute myeloid leukaemia.
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Heidelberg, 6 March 2008
New revelations in epigenetic control shed light on breast cancer
Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory [EMBL] in Heidelberg now gained new insight into one crucial epigenetic mechanism and reveal that it acts much faster than assumed.
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Heidelberg, 5 February 2008
Europe's most common genetic disease is a liver disorder
In a joint effort, researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory [EMBL] and the University of Heidelberg, Germany, have now discovered that the
genetic iron overload disorder hereditary hemochromatosis
[HH] is a liver disease.
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Hinxton, 22 January 2008
International consortium announces the 1000 Genomes Project
An international research consortium today announced the 1000 Genomes Project, an ambitious effort to sequence the genomes of at least 1000 people to create the most detailed and medically useful catalogue to
date of human genetic variation.
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Heidelberg, 8 January 2008
Life savers in the gut
Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory [EMBL] have discovered that proteins
that regulate the body's iron household play a vital role in making sure enough nutrients and
water are absorbed in the intestine.
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