
Shedding light on rare diseases: open data and model organisms
Why open data from model organisms is essential for rare disease research.
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Why open data from model organisms is essential for rare disease research.
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Jo McEntyre talks about data services, open data and a new era for research assessment.
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Microbial communities play essential roles in ocean ecology and planetary health. A recent publication highlights priorities for understanding and protecting ocean microbiomes.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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Scientists identify previously unexplored gene segments to be added to human genome databases.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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EMBO Director Fiona Watt discusses preprints, data sharing, and evaluation in light of EMBL’s new Open Science policy
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2022
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EMBL scientists unveil how 3D chromatin structure affects RNA splicing
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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Historian Soraya de Chadarevian explores how EMBL’s first Director General shaped molecular biology
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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Molecule mapping method raises interest in forensics, agriculture and microbiome studies
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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A look back at some of the most read stories on EMBL’s news website this year
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What are the strangest genomes in EMBL-EBI's Ensembl?
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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ERC grantee Stephen Cusack shares his vision for the next ten years
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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EMBL experts outline the trends shaping scientific training in the coming years
LAB MATTERS2017
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EMBL physicist-turned-biologist alumni win 2017 Kendrew and Phillipson awards
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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New research reveals that two different mechanisms are responsible for chromosome folding
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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How a research technician with a master’s degree contributed to Nobel Prize-winning work
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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EMBL scientists superimpose structures of two-metal-ion enzymes and reveal new potential drug targets
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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New research shows how pores form in the membrane that surrounds a cell’s nucleus
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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High resolution 3D protein structures in a giffy with PDBe
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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Curious about what goes on in EMBL’s Fly Room? Prepare to be a fly on the wall
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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Takeda joins pioneering public-private drug discover collaboration Open Targets
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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New group leader based in Grenoble aims to unveil the mechanisms of RNA editing
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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New BioModels infrastructure supports significantly more model formats and offers improved search
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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James Sharpe, Head of EMBL Barcelona, co-chairs the morphogenetic engineering-themed conference
CONNECTIONS2017
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New method for 3D imaging microorganisms lends insight into the creatures that inhabit our oceans
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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EMBL Director General elect, Edith Heard, awarded 2017’s Grand Prix Inserm for her work in epigenetics
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2017
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EMBLers across all sites share how their curiosity about the world shapes their everyday life
LAB MATTERS2017
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Interview with EMBL’s Joint Heads of Government and EU Relations
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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Takashi Hiiragi and Lars Steinmetz received Advanced Grants from the European Research Council (ERC)
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2017
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The Mahamid group studies meso-scale molecular assemblies in intact cells and model organisms at molecular resolution
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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EMBL releases recommendations for the 9th EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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EMBL alumna Sigrid Reinsch trained as a cell biologist – now she helps run experiments in space
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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Insights into the reproduction of Plasmodium parasites in mosquitoes reveal rapid and broad activity
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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20,000 visitors get sneak peek at giant particle accelerators at DESY DAY in Hamburg
LAB MATTERS2017
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Former EMBL Director General Fotis Kafatos passes away
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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Six curious questions and the EMBL community's answers. Check back each week for the next question
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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EMBL and HeidelbergCement sign Memorandum of Understanding
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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Jacques Dubochet, Nobel laureate and former EMBL group leader, reflects on a key aha moment
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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EMBL researchers create highest resolution 3D model of important structure within Ebola virus
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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Inside the Centre for Structural Systems Biology
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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A summary of recent research highlights from EMBL
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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EMBL and the European synchrotron ESRF extend their Joint Structural Biology Group
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2017
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As a new cryo-EM facility is inaugurated, EMBL’s Michael Hons describes his role in the project
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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How open data is changing our pursuit of discovery
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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Aid for Labs is an EMBL-based charity aiming to provide scientific equipment to researchers in need
LAB MATTERS2017
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A talent for organisation has taken EMBL’s Steffi Kandels-Lewis across the globe
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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Five things researchers have learned from bizarre fruit flies
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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Find out how curiosity is driving some of the work we do here at EMBL
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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Meet Ig Nobel emcee Marc Abrahams, an EMBL Science and Society speaker in December
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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Interview with Rolf-Dieter Heuer, guest speaker at EMBL's 2017 Annual Reception
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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Working on scientific instruments has taken EMBL alumnus Simon Sheldon to the ends of the Earth
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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Alumnus Michael Parker talks about his career, research highlights and how EMBL has played a role
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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Women from academia, industry and politics met at EMBL to fuel career growth and opportunities
LAB MATTERS2017
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EMBL researchers and collaborators unravel how chromosomes form
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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EMBL alumnus recognised for cryo-electron microscopy work
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS2017
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How Australia’s associate membership of EMBL empowers scientists and drives collaboration
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2017
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Bernt Eric Uhlin, Director of MIMS, will replace Kjetil Taskén, Director of NCMM
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2017
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EMBL’s new group leader based in Hamburg aims to create models of infection cycles
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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EMBL’s annual reception took place on 18 September, with more than 150 attendees
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2017
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EMBL-EBI and collaborators engage schools in a large-scale genome decoding project
LAB MATTERS2017
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Q&A with EMBL-EBI's Head of Chemical Biology data services
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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How microbes can create niches for each other
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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International experts gather at EMBL-EBI to reflect on the future of bioinformatics training
LAB MATTERS2017
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New study by Paola Kuri and Maria Leptin shows how inflammation happens in zebrafish in real time
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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How the work of the Courses and Conferences team has changed over the years
LAB MATTERS2017
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EMBL researchers separated facts from fiction at a Friends of EMBL Science Movie Night
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Newly opened European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser celebrates start of user operations
CONNECTIONS2017
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German state and federal governments agree funding for microscopy centre at EMBL Heidelberg
LAB MATTERS2017
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How patient-derived computational models can help researchers understand cancer
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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Lars Steinmetz. Director of the Life Science Alliance, reflects on the EMBL|Stanford initiative
CONNECTIONS2017
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Biologists Sydney Brenner and Richard J. Roberts addressed the importance of scientific archives
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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EMBL alumni met in Oxford for an afternoon of science talks and networking
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Meet Justin Crocker, EMBL’s new group leader in gene regulation during evolution and development
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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A new group at EMBL-EBI aims to decipher cell signalling networks
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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The Iqbal research group hopes to build a 'Google of bacteria' to help better interpret the genome
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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School student Andrea Totaro and EMBL group leader Christophe Lancrin reflect
LAB MATTERS2017
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NEB joins EMBL’s corporate partnership programme
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2017
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EMBL-EBI supports bioinformatics training and capacity in Latin America
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2017
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Genetic data from a major cohort now distributed via EMBL-EBI
CONNECTIONS2017
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EMBL’s cycling team complete epic journey to raise money for Heidelberg’s children’s hospital
LAB MATTERS2017
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EMBL’s unit in Italy changes name to better reflect new research focuses and highlight its location
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2017
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EMBL’s Iain Mattaj, the new Chair of EIROforum, on EIROforum’s role
CONNECTIONS2017
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On 29 June, at a ceremony in front of 700 guests, the Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB) in Hamburg, was officially opened. At the event on the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) Campus in Hamburg, Helmut Dosch, Chairman of the DESY Board of Directors, presented Head of EMBL Hamburg…
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2017
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Tim Richmond looks back on the work that revealed the high-resolution structure of the nucleosome
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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Celebrating 40 years since the first EMBO electron microscopy training course
LAB MATTERS2017
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The 2018 EMBL course and conference sneak preview is now available!
LAB MATTERS2017
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Edith Heard’s mandate scheduled to begin 1 January 2019
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2017
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Science and Society event answers controversial questions about gut microbes
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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IMPC explains how much the sex of animals is misdirecting research results
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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EMBL-EBI and IMPC characterised over 3000 mouse genes, revealing new gene associations with disease
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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Exploring the potential of user experience for life sciences through industry workshops
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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The Image Data Resource - prototype of the first open repository linking imaging and molecular data
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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EMBL’s Cornelius Gross wants to understand fear responses and the brain circuitry that governs them
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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EMBL researchers complete a molecular atlas showing gene expression in all cells in an entire animal
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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Two EMBL researchers are exploring new ways to filter out noise and get to the data they need
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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EMBL-EBI, the Broad and UCSC Genomics Institute to build Data Coordination Platform with CZI support
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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EMBL’s Hiroki Asari investigates how our internal state can change the way our eyes work
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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Meet the head of EMBL's new Barcelona site, James Sharpe
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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Inventor of OPT will be the first Head of EMBL’s new Barcelona site
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2017
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An EMBL collaboration devises a new method that could speed up vaccine development for HIV
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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People across EMBL’s sites reflect on the ways they perceive their world
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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Hallmarks of residual breat cancer cells suggest new approaches for preventing relapse
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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Introducing one of the largest collections of high-quality human induced pluripotent stem cells
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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The life science community is deeply saddened by the loss of EMBL alumnus Riccardo Cortese
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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Accelerating researchers’ access to next-generation light-sheet microscopy
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2017
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Meet Monterotondo’s new group leader for epigenetic reprogramming and inheritance, Jamie Hackett
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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ERC grantee Maja Köhn shares her vision for the next ten years
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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EMBL welcomes its 23rd member state, with a promising collaboration already in place
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2017
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EMBL researchers develop an optical method for measuring the release of insulin from single cells
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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EMBL scientists detect important function of genetic sequence our ancestors assimilated from a virus
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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EMBL-EBI researchers identify mouse epigenetic clock that could help scientists understand ageing
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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EMBL alumnus Konrad Müller has sadly passed away
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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Call for applications for school students to join ‘Summer in Science’ in Monterotondo
LAB MATTERS2017
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EMBL scientists add crucial knowledge to understanding of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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Spanish government and EMBL sign agreement for new site
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2017
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EMBL Director-General, Iain Mattaj, reflects on the work done to establish a new site in Barcelona
LAB MATTERS2017
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EMBL’s Monterotondo site strengthens links with the Italian scientific community
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2017
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Study by EMBL and DKFZ researchers means origins of myeloid leukaemias may need rethinking
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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Silke Schumacher explains how the new EMBL site in Barcelona came into being
LAB MATTERS2017
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New Master's programme for research infrastructure managers – set to launch autumn 2017
LAB MATTERS2017
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Researchers use single-cell sequencing to understand how cells age
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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Anna Tramontano, bioinformatics pioneer and EMBL alumna, has passed away
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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Janet Thornton reflects on the contributions of EMBL alumna Anna Tramontano
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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The research community mourns the passing of Anna Tramontano
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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Diversity, internationality and collaboration works, writes EMBL Director-General Iain Mattaj
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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“Without John Kendrew there would have been no EMBL,” wrote Ken Holmes
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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ERC grantee Edward Lemke shares his vision for the next ten years
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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EMBL’s new Academic Coordinator and Dean of Graduate Studies Monika Lachner leads programmes that help young scientists to flourish
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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ERC grantee Detlev Arendt shares his vision for the next ten years
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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ERC grantee Eileen Furlong shares her vision for the next ten years
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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Keeping bacterial chromosomes tangled could lead to new approaches to treatment
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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Ottoline Leyser on the fallacy of failure and the road to self-determination
LAB MATTERS2017
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Reconstructing T-cell development in high resolution
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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EMBL researchers develop a computer model to explore the movement of nuclei in a multinuclear cell
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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EMBL alumnus Joep Muijrers talks about making the transition from science into business
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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Differentiated and undifferentiated cells get energy in different ways, sensor made at EMBL shows
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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EMBL alumna Zehra Sayers key driver of the Middle East’s first synchrotron project
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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EMBL alumna Nicola Mulder reflects on her pan-African bioinformatics project and its impact
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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Flies can do a lot for science, inside and outside the lab. EMBL alumna Isabel Palacios explains how
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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Sartorius and EMBL join forces to support advanced training and science education
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2017
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GSK and EMBL have signed an agreement to enhance understanding of disease and drug mechanisms
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2017
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Beamline BM14 in Grenoble shuts down, continues collaboration with India
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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A new technique developed at EMBL reveals the way fats interact with other molecules in cells
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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EMBL scientists discovered that common mutations can change the shape of gene promoters
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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In this interview from the EMBL Archive, Sir John Kendrew reflects on his time leading 'the Lab'.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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Helke Hillebrand on leaving EMBL after 9 years as Academic Coordinator and Dean of Graduate Studies
LAB MATTERS2017
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Healing and anxiety are influenced by the genetics of one’s social partners
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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New group leader Wojciech Galej investigates RNA-protein complexes involved in gene expression
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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New mechanism revealed
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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EMBL scientists find out how the prefrontal cortex puts a break on instinctive behaviours
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