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Welcome: Athanasios Athanassiadis

EMBL’s new Head of Scientific Instrumentation Workshops discusses how building customised experimental setups can enable exciting new research.

10 August 2026

We are EMBL: Sam Shingles on connecting communities with data science

6 August 2026

EMBL participates in two new European Commission-funded widening research initiatives

5 August 2026

Latest

4 August 2026

Using Europe’s genomic data to protect biodiversity

3 August 2026 Lisa Maier, EMBL’s 2026 John Kendrew Award recipient, gives an acceptance speech during the Alumni Awards Ceremony

A journey through the microbiome, shaped by growth and support

31 July 2026 Illustration of a synthetic biology experiment showing researchers using tweezers to insert a small DNA enhancer sequence into a DNA construct. Tubes contain many different DNA fragments, while stylized chromatin structures surround the scene, representing testing hundreds of regulatory sequences in different genomic contexts.

Illustration of a synthetic biology experiment showing researchers using tweezers to insert a small DNA enhancer sequence into a DNA construct. Tubes contain many different DNA fragments, while stylized chromatin structures surround the scene, representing testing hundreds of regulatory sequences in different genomic contexts.

A new genetic tool helps researchers uncover the logic of gene regulation

Science & Technology

30 July 2026 Fluorescence microscopy image of two adjacent cells outlined in blue, with bright magenta structures concentrated near their centers, set against a black background with teal and blue curved borders.

Fluorescence microscopy image of two adjacent cells outlined in blue, with bright magenta structures concentrated near their centers, set against a black background with teal and blue curved borders.

New research shows the Golgi complex is involved in DNA repair control

29 July 2026 A collage of photos from the sampling trip at the Barro Colorado Nature Monument in Panama. The top horizontal image shows an aerial view of the rainforest, while the three vertical images below show EMBL researchers collecting soil samples with local collaborators in the forest.

A collage of photos from the sampling trip at the Barro Colorado Nature Monument in Panama. The top horizontal image shows an aerial view of the rainforest, while the three vertical images below show EMBL researchers collecting soil samples with local collaborators in the forest.

Understanding tropical forest health from above and below

28 July 2026

New software helps researchers decode the cellular architecture of lymphoma

People & Perspectives

16 July 2026

Cath Brooksbank: What I’ve learned

6 July 2026

We are EMBL: Dal Nijjer on modernising science literature search

18 June 2026

We are EMBL: Alana Sousa on data and machine learning, from young stars to crystals

Connections

27 July 2026

European Researchers’ Night 2026: A festival of science and curiosity

9 June 2026 AN EMBL staff explains the nature of TREC´s samling in the field to a group of visitors, including Luxembourg’s Minister for Research and Higher Education, Stéphanie Obertin

AN EMBL staff explains the nature of TREC´s samling in the field to a group of visitors, including Luxembourg’s Minister for Research and Higher Education, Stéphanie Obertin

Tracing environmental change through river microbiomes in Luxembourg

3 June 2026 Five people are standing in line for the photo, representing EMBL, the company Merck, and the Universities of Freiburg and Cambridge

The scientists behind the data: investing in Europe’s data stewardship workforce

EMBL Announcements

25 June 2026 people around a laptop computer

EMBL Annual Report 2025 online

18 May 2026

Economic impact report examines the value of open biodata infrastructure

7 May 2026 The logos of Daiichi Sankyo and EMBL next to each other.

EMBL Corporate Partnership Programme gets new member

Lab Matters

18 December 2025 A woman looks at a laptop displaying the BioImage.io webpage.

A menagerie of deep-learning models

6 November 2025 A woman demonstrating something to a group of four children with a leaf in her hand.

Sommer der Wissenschaft: a new way to experience science

20 October 2025

Collage of pictures taken during Parvis des Sciences 2025

From the lab bench to the community: enjoying a day of activities around science and ‘intelligences’

Awards & Honours

17 July 2026

ERC Proof of Concept Grant for Gautam Dey’s evolutionary biology cell research

3 July 2026 Two men and a woman posing for a photograph. The man in the centre is wearing the German Federal Cross and holding a certificate. The woman is holding a bouquet of flowers.

Two men and a woman posing for a photograph. The man in the centre is wearing the German Federal Cross and holding a certificate. The woman is holding a bouquet of flowers.

Matthias Hentze receives the Bundesverdienstkreuz (Federal Cross of Merit)

30 June 2026

Wojciech Galej elected to EMBO membership

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