Flashback Friday: Doors open at genomics and proteomics core facilities
This article first published in in August 2001 showcases EMBL’s commitment to developing and providing cutting-edge services to the life sciences research community.
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Flashback Friday: Proteins translate into EMBL-Heidelberg’s biggest-ever conference
EMBL celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2024, and in so doing, we’re digging through the archives for some fascinating stories from EMBL’s past publications to republish in this blog. EMBL is well known for hosting big, topical, and impactful conferences – very often with partners like EMBO,…
Flashback Friday: Where do you start when developing a new medicine?
EMBL celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2024, and in so doing, we’re digging through the archives for some fascinating stories from EMBL’s past publications to republish in this blog. The following article was published on 25 March 2014, shortly after the launch of a new public-private research…
Flashback Friday: Winners of the first John Kendrew Young Scientist Award
EMBL celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2024, and in so doing, we’re digging through the archives for some fascinating stories from EMBL’s past publications to republish in this blog. EMBL has just announced its 2024 Kendrew Alumni Award recipient. The following recounts the very first time…
Flashback Friday: Group leaders face to face with sea creatures in partnership talks
From a 2006 EMBLetc. article: one of EMBL’s first partnering efforts with Station Biologique de Roscoff – the starting point for EMBL’s Traversing European Coastlines (TREC) expedition in 2023.
Archive and Records Management Highlights 2023
An article about EMBL's archive and records management activities during 2023.
Flashback Friday: Who is Leo Szilárd?
An article about Leo Szilard was originally published in EMBLetc., issue 1, July 1999, explaining his connection to EMBL.
Flashback Friday: EMBLEM and Carl Zeiss to make microscope developed at EMBL
An EMBLetc. article from 2005 celebrates a new high-tech microscope developed in one of EMBL Heidelberg's research groups.
Remembering the moment EMBL was established
By Maria Papanikolaou and Anna Stanescu, EMBL Although the idea of a European laboratory for life sciences was conceived in 1962, it would take 11 more years, involving conversations between Nobel prize winners, an unusual endorsement from two female UK government officials, and the signatures of…
Flashback May 1978: The EMBL Heidelberg Inauguration Day
The 5th of May 1978 is one of the historical moments of the EMBL development as it was the day of the inauguration of the EMBL Headquarters in Heidelberg. The decision for the site selection of the Laboratory was taken in 1971 by the European Molecular Biology Conference Working Group “Site…