Understanding how cells avoid obstacles
Science EMBL researchers have identified a novel mechanism that allows cells to sense obstacles in their path and avoid them while navigating complex environments.
2023
science
After EMBL: Sergiy Avilov
Alumni Ukrainian scientist Sergiy Avilov uses the microscopy skills and scientific network he built at EMBL in his current role heading the Imaging Facility at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics.
2023
alumni
Bringing advanced life science technologies to the field
Lab Matters EMBL’s newly deployed Advanced Mobile Laboratory (AML) is bringing cutting-edge technologies to the European coast to help researchers study ‘life in context’.
2023
lab-matters
From academia to industry: exploring new career paths
Events EMBL organised a five-day summer school to help PhD students and postdocs learn more about research and development (R&D) related industry career roles.
2023
events
New therapies to improve cardiovascular health
Science EMBL researchers have made new strides into understanding and reversing genetic defects that underlie familial heart disease.
2023
science
The power of cell sorting: understanding heart disease, phase separation, plankton, and more
Science EMBL researchers use a new cell sorting technology to gain new insights into cellular function in health and disease, as well as for other innovative applications.
2023
science
100th issue of EMBLetc. published
Lab Matters First published in 1999 as a black-and-white printed newsletter for EMBL staff and alumni, EMBLetc. has undergone many transformations in its 24 years of existence.
2023
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Celebrating 100 issues of EMBLetc.
EMBLetc First published in 1999 as a black-and-white printed newsletter for EMBL staff and alumni, EMBLetc. has undergone many transformations in its 24 years of existence.
2023
A trip down memory lane
EMBLetc EMBLetc., the online magazine of Europe’s life sciences laboratory, celebrates its 24th birthday with its 100th issue. We took a walk through the past issues of this dynamic publication, and here are 10 recurring themes that emerged.
2023
Visualising biology: new tools of the trade
EMBLetc EMBL researchers are pushing the frontiers of big data analysis in biological imaging, allowing scientists to gain a many-layered and multidimensional view of organisms, tissues, and cells in action.
2023
In pictures: the story of TREC
EMBLetc EMBL’s newest expedition attempts to answer some of the biggest questions in planetary biology, and will help scientists find solutions to pressing global concerns.
2023
Terra Incognita: exploring new horizons in scientific ethics
EMBLetc EMBL’s upcoming Science & Society conference takes a deep dive into the ethical considerations surrounding the use of technology and organoids in life science research.
2023
The story of Clustal: democratising sequence alignments
EMBLetc Desmond Higgins, 2023 Lennart Philipson Award winner, discusses his time at EMBL and his research developing sequence alignment tools.
2023
Shining light on the mechanics of embryo development
Lab Matters, Science A new microscope built by EMBL researchers, based on Brillouin scattering principles, allows scientists to observe the dynamics of mechanical properties inside developing embryos in real time.
2023
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Welcome: Thomas Quail
Lab Matters New group leader Thomas Quail studies the fundamental processes that determine how proteins organise the genome inside a cell.
2023
lab-matters
Studying epigenetic regulation at the single-molecule level
Science In a first-of-its-kind study, EMBL researchers have shown how DNA methylation across the genome contributes to the precise regulation of gene expression.
2023
science
New evolutionary insights from stepping outside the lab
Science EMBL researchers are stepping outside the lab and thinking outside the box to understand the basic principles that underlie the development and evolution of organismal characteristics.
2023
science
Spotlight: Colours of the colon
Lab Matters, Picture of the week Mucus present in the mouse colon can be visualised using Alcian blue staining, as imaged here by EMBL predoctoral fellow Linda Decker.
2023
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Edith Heard elected as member of the French Academy of Sciences
Lab Matters The Director General of EMBL was elected by her peers to become a member of one of France’s oldest national science academies.
2022
lab-matters
EMBLetc. receives digital-first makeover
Lab Matters The biannual magazine that highlights EMBL’s research, people, and projects now has a new online home.
2022
lab-matters
Uncovering a microbe’s inner life
EMBLetc Researchers have observed the inner workings of an unusual bacteria at an unprecedented level of detail.
2022
From coast to coast and beyond
EMBLetc EMBL researchers conducted a pilot project in Iceland as the final preparatory step before commencing their journey traversing European coastlines.
2022
Light-Seq: from images to sequences in context
Science Researchers have combined advanced light microscopy with next-generation sequencing to create a method to study cells directly in the context of their native tissues
2022
science
Seeing antibiotics in action inside a pathogenic bacterium
Science New research by EMBL scientists shows at atomic detail how antibiotics affect the process of protein production inside bacteria.
2022
science
Combi-seq: a leap forward for personalised cancer therapy
Science Researchers have come up with a way to test the efficacy of hundreds of anticancer drug combinations – simultaneously, rapidly, and accurately.
2022
science
When microbiomes collide
Science EMBL researchers used data from over 300 human faecal microbiota transplants to gain an ecological understanding of what happens when two gut microbiomes clash.
2022
science
Visualising Life: The EMBL Lautenschläger summer school returns to Heidelberg
Events The EMBL Lautenschläger summer school, held 4–15 Jul 2022, introduced students from a range of scientific backgrounds to interdisciplinary life science research.
2022
events
Welcome: Pascale Cossart
Lab Matters Pascale Cossart, one of the world’s foremost authorities on the biology of Listeria, brings four decades of expertise in intracellular bacterial parasitism to EMBL as a visiting scientist.
2022
lab-matters
Shaping up the genome for cell division
Science Researchers have discovered the mechanism by which a family of DNA motor proteins packages loosely arranged strands of DNA into compact individual chromosomes during cell division.
2022
science
A 3D culture model to study embryo growth
Science A recent study by EMBL researchers proposes a new method to grow early embryos in the laboratory. With a 3D culture set-up, scientists can closely monitor the changes embryos undergo around the time of implantation.
2022
science
Converging lenses on embryo development
Science Researchers from the Furlong group at EMBL have come up with a way to observe the development of fruit-fly embryos simultaneously at the genetic and cellular levels, generating a high-resolution and integrated view of how different cell lineages form.
2022
science
EMBL Imaging Centre kickstarts training with workshop for undergraduates
Lab Matters The new EMBL Imaging Centre held its first on-site training workshop, introducing undergraduate students to the basics of volume electron microscopy. This marks the first of many opportunities to aid capacity-building in imaging techniques in Europe.
2022
lab-matters
Cell sorting enters a new dimension
Science EMBL researchers, in collaboration with BD Biosciences, have demonstrated a new technology that allows rapid image-based sorting of cells. The new technology represents a major upgrade to flow cytometry and has applications in diverse life science fields.
2022
science
The impact of drugs on gut microbes is greater than we thought
Science Researchers studying a massive cohort of European patients have found that commonly prescribed drugs for cardiometabolic disorders can have long-term effects on the gut microbiome. Such effects can complicate the understanding of how disease affects the microbiome and must be taken into…
2021
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