Metabolism shapes life
EMBL Barcelona and MPI-CBG Dresden researchers reveal how glycolysis drives early embryonic cell decisions.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2025
science-technology
How video games inspired a new way to visualise limb development
EMBL Barcelona researchers developed a computational method that reconstructs embryonic development.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2025
science-technology
Metabolic activities are not global modulators of developmental tempos
A new study from EMBL Barcelona researchers shows that metabolism is a selective modulator of developmental tempo, contributing to our evolutionary understanding.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2025
science-technology
We are EMBL: Laura Marin on moving back to Barcelona, success, and the colour blue
Laura Marin, Head of Administration at EMBL Barcelona, talks about how finding joy at work is true success, and how she feels in her new role.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2024
people-perspectives
Stopping severe malaria by harnessing natural human antibodies
The findings of the study provide insights into vaccines or treatments to protect people from severe malaria.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2024
science-technology
From head to tail: how cells give rise to our body plan
Researchers from the Trivedi Group at EMBL Barcelona unveil how cells can act autonomously during early development.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2024
science-technology
EMBL Barcelona celebrates EMBL’s 50th anniversary with Spanish community
EMBL Barcelona observed EMBL’s 50th anniversary with a scientific celebration that attracted alumni and other leading life scientists.
CONNECTIONS2024
connections
We are EMBL: Jia Le Lim on zebrafish, temperature, and Johann Sebastian Bach
Jia Le Lim talks about contributing back to society through science, finding inspiration in the way birds fly in the sky, and winning a recent international piano competition.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2024
people-perspectives
The speed of life: a zoo of cells to study developmental time
Researchers from the Ebisuya Group at EMBL Barcelona have used an unprecedented stem cell zoo to compare six different mammalian species and their developmental time.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
sciencescience-technology
Organs-on-chip: new horizons for disease research
EMBL Barcelona researchers are studying how tissues develop in health and disease using organoids and 3D multicellular systems to mimic human organs and their functions.
EMBLetc2023
Welcome: Alejandro Torres-Sánchez
The new group leader is setting up the first purely theory-focused research group at EMBL Barcelona. He aims to understand fundamental biological principles using mathematical models and computer simulations, in close collaboration with experimental researchers across EMBL.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2023
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EMBL Barcelona: Five years down the road
EMBL’s site by the sea completed its fifth year of operations. We look back at some key milestones and achievements since 2017.
LAB MATTERS2023
lab-matters
Vikas Trivedi from EMBL Barcelona receives ERC Synergy Grant
The group leader, together with three other principal investigators, has been awarded the ERC Synergy Grant, one of the most prestigious public grants in Europe.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2023
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EMBL in Spain: from EvoDevo to Tissues
More than a hundred scientists from across Spain and Europe met at the Andalusian Centre for Developmental Biology (CABD) for the 2022 “EMBL in Spain” event.
2022
alumni
Welcome to EMBL: Talya Dayton
The new group leader in Barcelona aims to understand how cells behave in health and in disease, and approaches her favourite hobby, cooking, very similarly to her work in the lab.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2022
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The power of light: folding 3D tissues
EMBL Barcelona researchers have developed a tool that can use light to control the shape of cells .
2022
science
EMBL Barcelona and CRG kickstart new era of digital biology in Barcelona
The institutes have launched a joint new initiative which aims to make biology as engineerable as an aeroplane or a bridge.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2022
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Building the ideal limb
EMBL researchers use a “fearless” computer reconstruction and a two-centuries-old mathematical approach to study limb bud growth.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
sciencescience-technology
A summer of scientific exchange in Barcelona
EMBL’s site by the sea hosted a trio of conferences this summer, covering topics ranging from vascular biology to engineered living systems to evolution.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2022
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Three EMBL scientists elected as EMBO Members
Cornelius Gross, Miki Ebisuya and Nassos Typas join EMBO, the prestigious organisation for the life sciences.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2022
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EMBL welcomes first generation of ARISE fellows
Participating researchers will lead projects to develop novel technologies for better science.
LAB MATTERS2022
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EMBL and CSIC join hands to discuss microbes in a changing world
Researchers from EMBL and CSIC came together to discuss microbial communities, diversity, and behaviour, in the context of One Health.
CONNECTIONS2022
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What do stem cell aggregates and whipped cream have in common?
EMBL researchers revise the old problem of sintering droplets to understand the mechanical properties of tissues.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
sciencescience-technology
Unravelling the origins of the human spine
Scientists at EMBL Barcelona have created for the first time a 3D in vitro model that recapitulates the periodic formation of human somites – structures that give rise to the spinal column.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
sciencescience-technology
Putting Cryptococcus in context
EMBL’s imaging technology helps researchers gain insights in the fungus’ journey from the lung to the brain.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
sciencescience-technology
Kristina Haase from EMBL Barcelona receives ERC Starting Grant
Kristina Haase, Group Leader at EMBL Barcelona, will receive €1.5 million over the next five years to develop her project on 3D vascularised in vitro cardiac tissues.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2022
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Building a 3D placenta on a chip
A new model could serve as a platform to investigate critical placenta barrier phenomena, including defence against bacteria, viruses, and parasites.
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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Organoids and machine learning: image analysis software developed during lockdown
MOrgAna is an open source, user-friendly, modular software that is able to analyse organoids with machine learning.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
sciencescience-technology
EMBL scientists receive prestigious ERC Starting Grants
Maria Bernabeu and Wojciech Galej have each been awarded €1.5 million to research malaria and pre-mRNA splicing, respectively.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2020
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Royal Microscopical Society award for Yannick Schwab
The Head of the Electron Microscopy Core Facility at EMBL Heidelberg receives Mid-Career Scientific Achievement Award 2020
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2020
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