Tumour takeover
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women. It is so deadly because tumours often return after successful cancer treatment. This recurrence is caused by individual dormant cancer cells remaining inside the breast. These cells can develop into active cancer cells…
Launching proteins
What looks like a photo-series of an explosive eruption are actually uptaking proteins, captured by Markus Mund from the Ries Group at EMBL Heidelberg. The images were made in an attempt to learn how the different proteins that take up molecules into the cells via endocytosis – the cellular…
EMBL co-develops new method that could facilitate cancer diagnosis
Researchers have developed a cheaper and faster method to check for genetic differences in individual cells
Innovative method delivers new insights into the stem cell microenvironment
Researchers have developed new methods to reveal the 3D-organisation of bone marrow at a single cell level
A classification tool for transcription factors
The software diffTF quantifies activity of transcription factors and predicts their mode of action
Empowering European structural biology
EU funding for iNEXT-Discovery consortium unlocks key technologies for structural biology
EMBL Imaging Centre top-out event
Celebrating the construction progress with a traditional German ceremony
Building Euro-BioImaging
EMBL’s Jan Ellenberg reflects on the process of forming a European research infrastructure
Reshaping our DNA
DNA is present in each cell of our body. If all the DNA from one human cell was removed and aligned in a single strand, it would in theory add up to a total length of about two metres. In order to fit into the nucleus of a cell, DNA has to be compressed by […]
Graduation Ceremony 2019
Forty-seven PhD students from all of EMBL’s six sites were celebrated during EMBL’s 2019 Graduation Ceremony on Friday 13 December
