23 March 2023
Lab Matters
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.
23 March 2023
Lab Matters
Scientists from EMBL and its French academic partners gathered at EMBL Rome for a workshop to foster collaboration and advance research in neuroscience.
21 March 2023
Lab Matters
New group leader Thomas Quail studies the fundamental processes that determine how proteins organise the genome inside a cell.
20 March 2023
Lab Matters
Together with his team, Gergely Papp pushes the frontiers of technology development in the field of structural biology.
17 March 2023
Lab Matters
Biological X-ray imaging is an emerging technology that uses X-rays to image tissues or even entire organisms. It will play an important role in EMBL Hamburg’s future service portfolio, and will allow studying life on multiple scales. Team Leader Liz Duke discusses her plans to establish X-ray…
15 March 2023
Lab Matters
EMBL’s site by the sea completed its fifth year of operations. We look back at some key milestones and achievements since 2017.
8 March 2023
Lab Matters
EMBL is leading the TREC project: the first pan-European and cross-disciplinary effort to examine life in its natural context.
7 March 2023
Lab Matters
On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2023, EMBL archivist Maria Papanikolaou discusses the traces left by the women in science who have passed through EMBL, irrevocably changing the organisation in small and big ways.
3 March 2023
Lab Matters
EMBL’s French site was highlighted in a short film presenting its expertise in structural biology research and services.
1 March 2023
Lab Matters
Physicists, engineers and robotics experts work together in EMBL Hamburg’s Instrumentation Team to design instruments that support structural biology research. The team has finished a transfer robot that facilitates automated handling of protein crystals with care and precision. This will help…
23 February 2023
Lab Matters, Picture of the week
Researchers in the Prevedel Group use photoacoustic spectroscopy setup to test and optimise probes before their usage in mouse neuroscience.
2023
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22 February 2023
Lab Matters, Perspectives
Jo McEntyre talks about data services, open data and a new era for research assessment.
2023
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20 February 2023
Lab Matters
The Baltic nation of Estonia has become a full member of EMBL, joining the organisation as its 28th member state.
16 February 2023
Lab Matters
EMBL is one of the partners of this project that aims to accelerate drug discovery and development, bringing in expertise from EMBL Grenoble and EMBL-EBI.
15 February 2023
Lab Matters
EMBL Hamburg’s Sample Preparation and Characterisation (SPC) Facility offers scientists access to almost all available biophysics technologies. The facility’s staff provides advice and support with experiments and data analysis. The facility is conveniently located just next to the EMBL…
13 February 2023
Lab Matters
Group Leader Hanh Vu studies ‘immortal’ flatworms that can grow and de-grow to understand better factors that determine organisms’ sizes.
11 February 2023
Lab Matters
A recent student visitor shares her impressions from visiting EMBL’s Vincent group as we recognise International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
7 February 2023
Lab Matters
One of EMBL’s core missions is the development and transfer of scientific know-how and technologies to academia, industry, and commercial entities to facilitate further research, innovations, and commercialisation for the benefit of society at large. Working across Europe, EMBL has partnerships…
31 January 2023
Lab Matters
EMBL Rome group leader Jamie Hackett receives EUR 2 million for the ModLogic project, aimed at understanding how chromatin modifications impact gene activity.
27 January 2023
Lab Matters
New agreement with UN organisation will enable cooperation in the fields of open science, capacity building, and talent development
25 January 2023
Lab Matters
EMBL hosts inaugural meeting for major interdisciplinary project designed to boost understanding of ocean life
23 January 2023
Lab Matters
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.
20 January 2023
Lab Matters, Picture of the week
Tasmanian flatworms add to an EMBL researcher’s collection as she studies principles that control animal body size.
2023
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19 January 2023
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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11 January 2023
Lab Matters
Rob Finn, one of the co-chairs of the Microbial Ecosystems theme, discusses his work, the challenges of multidisciplinary research, and how the theme is already helping to promote the exchange of scientific ideas.
23 December 2022
Lab Matters, Picture of the week
Zebrafish embryos during gastrulation, a very early stage of development, to study the effect of temperature on vertebrate embryo development.
2022
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21 December 2022
Lab Matters, Picture of the week
To identify which drugs disrupt bacterial envelope integrity, the Typas group uses a molecule called chlorophenyl red-β-D-galactopyranoside.
2022
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20 December 2022
Lab Matters
Europe-wide project studies coastal and marine biodiversity from viruses to whales
19 December 2022
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.
12 December 2022
Lab Matters
In October 2022, EMBL Grenoble participated in the annual science outreach event Parvis des Sciences, organised by the GIANT campus under the umbrella of the French science week – La Fête de la science.
8 December 2022
Lab Matters
EMBL alumnus and eminent molecular biologist Peter B. Becker has been named the next chair of EMBL’s Council as of January 2023.
7 December 2022
Lab Matters
EMBL’s EIPOD-Learning in Context programme focuses on interdisciplinary research that explores ‘life in context’ and adds a new collaborative dimension with member state organisations.
30 November 2022
Lab Matters
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.
22 November 2022
Lab Matters
Three EMBL scientists received this year’s ERC Starting Grants, and will be awarded €1.5 million over five years to carry out research projects.
21 November 2022
Lab Matters
Looking to understand microbial predator-prey relationships, EMBL’s newest group leader tackles a molecular ‘arms race’ in his lab.
18 November 2022
Lab Matters
The biannual magazine that highlights EMBL’s research, people, and projects now has a new online home.
3 November 2022
Lab Matters
Researchers and engineers have integrated a CrystalDirect harvester into the fully automated beamline MASSIF-1, a unique combination of structural biology technologies that is now open to external academic users.
27 October 2022
Lab Matters
Newly appointed member of the ASAPbio Board of Directors, EMBL Group Leader Gautam Dey speaks about preprints, data management, and open science.
21 October 2022
Lab Matters
After a postdoc at Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, Flora Vincent has joined EMBL’s Developmental Biology unit to further explore the world of phytoplankton.
20 October 2022
Lab Matters
The recent construction of the new ID29 beamline in Grenoble is pioneering a new way of doing experiments in time-resolved crystallography and opening up technology transfer possibilities
13 October 2022
Lab Matters
The Royal Microscopical Society awarded Ardan Patwardhan and Wim Hagen with Scientific Achievement Award
11 October 2022
Lab Matters
The final pilot project in Iceland marked the countdown to the ‘Traversing European Coastlines’ (TREC) expedition to study coastal ecosystems and their response to changes in the environment.
6 October 2022
Lab Matters
The institutes have launched a joint new initiative which aims to make biology as engineerable as an aeroplane or a bridge.
29 September 2022
Lab Matters
EMBL reminds teachers of freely available educational resources and workshops just in time for school.
23 September 2022
Lab Matters
Cell biologist Anthony Hyman and DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis and John Jumper were announced among 25 Breakthrough Prize recipients
21 September 2022
Lab Matters
EMBL joined a kick-off event focusing on the developments related to the upgrade of the PETRA III synchrotron storage ring to PETRA IV at the DESY campus, where EMBL Hamburg is located. PETRA IV could open new possibilities at EMBL Hamburg, contributing to the goals of the EMBL Programme…
20 September 2022
Lab Matters
Dieter Schwarz Foundation renews 3-year funding to EMBL for the EMBL | Stanford Life Science Alliance, a unique international collaboration bringing together researchers from the two leading institutions to develop transformative technologies and accelerate biomedical research.
12 September 2022
Lab Matters
20 secondary school students from all over Italy participated in the fourth edition of Summer in Science at EMBL Rome.
7 September 2022
Lab Matters
The Scientific Visitor Programme shares EMBL tools and talent with outside researchers in collaborative, multidisciplinary environments.
6 September 2022
Lab Matters
A new grant will provide a way for fundamental metabolomic research to realise its commercial potential and promise in aiding drug development and precision medicine.
26 August 2022
Lab Matters
EMBL delegation including the Director General visits Iceland marking another stage in this deepening scientific collaboration
16 August 2022
Lab Matters
Virginie Uhlmann, Research Group Leader at EMBL-EBI and one of the co-chairs of the Theory@EMBL transversal theme, chats about how this theme will open up new research avenues.
26 July 2022
Lab Matters
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.
22 July 2022
Lab Matters
Jan Kosinski, Group Leader at EMBL Hamburg and one of the co-chairs of the Infection Biology theme in EMBL’s new programme, chats about how this theme will support his work and help establish new collaborations.
20 July 2022
Lab Matters
EMBL’s new archive and records manager, Maria Papanikolaou, explains the dual role she and an additional colleague will have in the Office of Science Information Management.
15 July 2022
Lab Matters
The GEEF facility at EMBL Rome supports scientists worldwide with scientific expertise and state-of-the-art gene editing technologies.
6 July 2022
Lab Matters
Cornelius Gross, Miki Ebisuya and Nassos Typas join EMBO, the prestigious organisation for the life sciences.
30 June 2022
Lab Matters
Participating researchers will lead projects to develop novel technologies for better science.
29 June 2022
Lab Matters
EMBL’s 2021 Annual Report is now available, sharing mission highlights from the year in a new digital-first, sustainable format.
22 June 2022
Lab Matters
EMBL Director General Edith Heard joined other L’Oreal-UNESCO Laureates in Paris for a series of events celebrating these outstanding researchers and their contributions.
8 June 2022
Announcements, Lab Matters
The African BioGenome Project and EMBL have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to support each other in building genomics and bioinformatics capacity across Africa
2022
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8 June 2022
Lab Matters
EMBL and IIT scientists met in person at EMBL Rome to strengthen their collaboration and explore new opportunities for scientific exchange
7 June 2022
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.
2 June 2022
Lab Matters
A new formal collaboration agreement enables will help smooth the transition from fundamental science to innovation.
23 May 2022
Lab Matters
Fergal Martin discusses the importance of open access data and his work in different biodiversity initiatives
21 May 2022
Lab Matters
EMBL Director General Edith Heard has been elected as a foreign member of The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in recognition of her academic excellence. Heard is among 15 new members of the Academy, which has been advancing basic research and interdisciplinarity for nearly 280 years.
18 May 2022
Lab Matters
Students from the Business Academy Aarhus visit EMBL Hamburg annually. Many of them return later as trainees to gain experience as lab technicians. EMBL Hamburg offers great opportunities to learn diverse techniques and work with various equipment. This experience helps them in their future jobs in…
17 May 2022
Lab Matters, Perspectives
Janet Thornton, the inaugural winner of the FEBS Journal Open Science Award, explains the importance and impact of open science.
2022
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11 May 2022
Lab Matters
Peter Harrison discusses the importance of data accessibility and his passion for biodiversity and agricultural genomics.
10 May 2022
Lab Matters
EMBL’s Head of Genome Biology announced as Fellow of the Royal Society for her exceptional contributions to science.
4 May 2022
Lab Matters
The honour recognises distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
27 April 2022
Lab Matters
Professor Kristina Djinović-Carugo has been appointed as the next head of EMBL Grenoble. She will join EMBL in July from the Max Perutz Laboratories at the University of Vienna, where she is currently Head of the Department of Structural and Computational Biology and full Professor of Structural…
27 April 2022
Lab Matters
Slovenian structural biologist Kristina Djinović-Carugo will join EMBL in July as the new Head of EMBL Grenoble. We spoke to her about her background, research interests, and plans for EMBL Grenoble.
25 April 2022
Lab Matters, Perspectives
Ewan Birney discusses the input of both genetics and our environment in making us who we are
2022
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22 April 2022
Lab Matters
EMBO Director Fiona Watt discusses preprints, data sharing, and evaluation in light of EMBL’s new Open Science policy
12 April 2022
Lab Matters
EMBL and the Sapienza University of Rome confirm their reciprocal interest in intensifying collaborations and launch new opportunities for exchange of expertise
6 April 2022
Lab Matters
EMBL Heidelberg’s Matthias Hentze receives the Biochemical Society’s Centenary Award for his discoveries in RNA biology.
30 March 2022
Lab Matters
John Lees joins EMBL-EBI as a Group Leader in Pathogen informatics and modelling.
25 March 2022
Lab Matters
After a two-year break, the summer school organised by Adamas Scienza and EMBL in collaboration with CNR is back. It will take place at the International Research Campus of Monterotondo (Rome) from 13 to 24 June 2022.
20 March 2022
Lab Matters
Judith Zaugg, Group Leader at EMBL Heidelberg, has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant of €2 million funded under the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme. Over the next five years, the grant will enable her group to study cellular interactions in the human bone…
17 March 2022
Lab Matters
EMBL condemns in the strongest terms the unjustified military invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation, with the support of Belarus, and the resulting loss of life and human suffering. We express our deepest sympathy to the Ukrainian people and to all the victims of this war. As an…
3 March 2022
Lab Matters, Perspectives
An exploration of what gender bias looks like in science and how organisations and individuals can address it
2022
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2 March 2022
Alumni, Lab Matters
New study: EMBL PhDs and postdocs develop skills that make them highly employable in roles that drive research and innovation in academia, industry, and other sectors.
2 March 2022
Lab Matters
The new permanent ‘The World of Molecular Biology’ exhibition will open in mid-2023 at EMBL’s headquarters in Heidelberg. It will encourage people to actively engage with science and its relevance for everyday life.
23 February 2022
Lab Matters
The 11th annual Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine meeting was hosted in virtual format by DANDRITE, the Danish node of the Partnership, from 31 January–2 February 2022. The programme included updates from all partnership nodes, discussions about opportunities for new collaborations,…
23 February 2022
Lab Matters
Michael Dorrity, one of EMBL’s newest group leaders, is studying how the environment influences early life stages in zebrafish.
8 February 2022
Alumni, Lab Matters, Technology and innovation
Experiences at EMBL Rome led former group leader to establish his start-up in Italy, developing a new generation of gene therapies.
2022
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27 January 2022
Events, Lab Matters
Ahead of the annual meeting of the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine, we spoke with its new Speaker, Mark Daly. Mark Daly, FIMM Director, recently accepted the post of Speaker of the Nordic EMBL Partnership. He explains his vision of the future cooperation between EMBL and the Nordics.
24 January 2022
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.
19 January 2022
Announcements, Lab Matters
EMBL announces details about its next programme, ‘Molecules to Ecosystems’. It will guide studying life across scales and in context with changing environments.
2022
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14 January 2022
Lab Matters
Melissa Harrison joins EMBL-EBI as the new Team Leader of Literature Services. We found out more about her plans for open access publishing and Europe PMC.
10 January 2022
Lab Matters
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.
3 January 2022
Lab Matters
This year marks the beginning of EMBL’s next programme ‘Molecules to Ecosystems’ to advance the understanding of life across scales and in the context of changing environments.
22 December 2021
Lab Matters
The memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between EMBL and the Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB) a year ago has already catalysed new grants for joint research projects related to cancer and infection biology, thereby deepening collaborative activities.
20 December 2021
Lab Matters
The agreement focuses on reinforcing the collaboration between scientists to strengthen our understanding of the organism in its environment.
20 December 2021
Lab Matters
Showing a continued commitment to providing a diverse and inclusive organisation for conducting leading molecular biology research, EMBL has launched an Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) strategy.
16 December 2021
Lab Matters
EMBL announces the release of its new Open Science Policy, contributing to positive culture change across the life sciences.
9 December 2021
Lab Matters
EMBL Senior Scientist and Head of the Genome Biology Unit is among the researchers honoured for outstanding work by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG).
9 December 2021
Lab Matters
EMBL and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) signed a memorandum of understanding.
3 December 2021
Lab Matters
The new EMBL Imaging Centre has announced its first open user call, and new project evaluation process and training opportunities.
29 November 2021
Lab Matters
Using gene editing and three types of microscopy, one of EMBL’s newest group leaders is deciphering the functions of one of the smallest molecules involved in cell division, motility, and signalling, known as a centriole.
25 November 2021
Lab Matters
Maria Zimmermann-Kogadeeva is one of EMBL’s newest group leaders and a computational biologist whose research group applies computational modelling to better understand the metabolism of gut bacteria and their potential to have far-reaching impacts on other organs.
24 November 2021
Lab Matters
Tudor Groza joins EMBL-EBI as our new Phenomics Team Lead. We found out from Tudor exactly what this new role will entail
15 November 2021
Lab Matters
A new model could serve as a platform to investigate critical placenta barrier phenomena, including defence against bacteria, viruses, and parasites.
12 November 2021
Lab Matters
Correlative microscopy service enables PhD student from Switzerland to study structure and location of proteins cells use to communicate.
10 November 2021
Lab Matters
Independent impact review finds EMBL experimental services are ‘critical’ for research and endorses EMBL as a world-class service provider for academia and industry.
9 November 2021
Lab Matters
EMBL's PhD and postdoc programmes evolve to the more multidisciplinary way of doing great molecular biology research.
8 November 2021
Lab Matters
Each year, EMBL Hamburg’s Svergun Group offers practical EMBO courses and lecture courses on biological small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). The courses provide young scientists an opportunity to gain hands-on experience by measuring their own samples, and by exploring different aspects of SAXS…
28 October 2021
Lab Matters
Svetlana Dodonova is one of EMBL's newest group leaders, leading a team of researchers who will study how genetic material is organised inside cells using structural biology approaches.
27 October 2021
Lab Matters
Independent study reveals that EMBL-EBI open data resources are critical for the life sciences.
26 October 2021
Lab Matters
The engagement of US and European Big Science facilities
25 October 2021
Lab Matters
EMBL attends COP26 to argue for strategy to involve molecular biology in the Green Recovery
22 October 2021
Lab Matters
A technology around since the ‘60s, flow cytometry has increasing applications. New leadership at EMBL’s flow cytometry facilities is looking to ease use, expand training, and encourage more collaboration.
19 October 2021
Lab Matters
Ian Dunham walks us through his career so far including working on the human genome project, seeing his work on the cover of Nature and his current role as Director of Open Targets.
18 October 2021
Lab Matters
Professor Edith Heard is among new members elected to US National Academy of Medicine
8 October 2021
Lab Matters
The two organisations have signed a memorandum of understanding to support scientific cooperation in the exploration of coastal and oceanic ecosystems.
7 October 2021
Lab Matters
This autumn, students begin their PhD in research groups across EMBL’s six sites.
4 October 2021
Lab Matters
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed between EMBL and the University of Tartu, a leading centre of research and training. The MoU aims to strengthen cooperation between EMBL and the life science research community in Estonia.
29 September 2021
Lab Matters
In the lab, Diënty Hazenbrink works with microbes that live in our guts. In her free time, she enjoys wildlife photography. A shared set of skills facilitates both activities.
28 September 2021
Lab Matters
EMBL and Hungarian research institutes will collaborate to address urgent biological and environmental challenges.
27 September 2021
Lab Matters
Hundreds of school children explore the beauty of proteins through art
22 September 2021
Lab Matters
EMBL and Helmholtz Association have signed a memorandum of understanding. The expanded collaboration of both institutions will focus on research related to health.
30 August 2021
Lab Matters
Giulia Zanetti from the Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology (ISMB) in London explains how the collaboration with the Cryo-Electron Microscopy Service Platform enabled her group to reveal the structure of protein transport complexes.
20 August 2021
Lab Matters
The new team leader at EMBL Hamburg talks about her plans to establish biological X-ray imaging and high-throughput tomography.
17 August 2021
Lab Matters
EMBL launches new mentoring opportunity, linking Master’s students with postdoctoral researchers.
12 August 2021
Lab Matters
EMBL Director General Edith Heard has been elected a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Her admission to the ‘Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine’ section recognises her outstanding professional contributions to science.
10 August 2021
Lab Matters
MASSIF-1, run jointly by EMBL Grenoble and the ESRF, is a beamline for macromolecular crystallography. It is used by the research community to study the 3D structure of proteins, which is important for drug development.
30 July 2021
Lab Matters
Distinctions recognise Peer’s development and sharing of bioinformatics tools as well as his significant contributions to bioinformatics research, education, and services.
20 July 2021
Lab Matters
Mehdi Khadraoui, a former member of the EMBL Communications team, took this close-up of a black redstart.
13 July 2021
Lab Matters
EMBL Director General Edith Heard has warmly welcomed Fiona Watt, who will become the new director of EMBO.
6 July 2021
Lab Matters
The EMBL Imaging Centre is preparing for external user access, after an on-time and on-budget build and handover to the science team.
5 July 2021
Lab Matters
EMBL welcomes Sarah Dyer, the new Non-Vertebrate Genomics Team Leader at EMBL-EBI.
2 July 2021
Lab Matters
Dr Alexander Aulehla has been appointed the new Head of EMBL’s Developmental Biology Unit, and will take up the role starting in July 2021.
30 June 2021
Lab Matters
EMBL Director General Edith Heard has warmly welcomed the appointment of Professor Maria Leptin as the next President of the European Research Council (ERC)
22 June 2021
Lab Matters
Anna Erzberger, one of EMBL’s newest group leaders, will provide unique perspective as a theoretical biological physicist.
17 June 2021
Lab Matters
EMBL group leaders Julia Mahamid, Anna Kreshuk & Jonas Ries awarded Chan Zuckerberg Initiative grant to advance what we see inside cells.
8 June 2021
Lab Matters
John Marioni, Alex Bateman, and Takashi Hiiragi have been elected to EMBO Membership.
8 June 2021
Lab Matters
EMBL is conducting an Impact Assessment of our experimental services to understand the value these services have for our external user community. If you have accessed EMBL experimental services at one or more of our facilities to support the conduct of your research, we would like to hear from you.
5 June 2021
Lab Matters
EMBL’s EU Green Week event showcased various ways molecular biology research can help solve environmental challenges.
4 June 2021
Lab Matters
EMBL Director Matthias Hentze describes the Environmental Research Initiative: a community effort to solve global environmental challenges.
1 June 2021
Lab Matters
EMBL and the Swedish Science for Life Laboratory sign agreement to advance science together.
20 May 2021
Lab Matters
The Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie has awarded a FEBS Anniversary Prize to Michael Zimmermann for his gut microbiome research.
10 May 2021
Lab Matters
A memorandum of understanding has been signed between EMBL and Inserm to strengthen their scientific cooperation.
30 April 2021
Lab Matters
The EMBL-Tara Ocean Foundation collaboration will expand opportunities to jointly explore molecular connections between ocean and humankind.
28 April 2021
Lab Matters
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory and the Italian Institute of Technology have signed an agreement to expand the scope of their collaboration to include areas of mutual interest and in the context of EMBL’s 2022-2026 Programme “Molecules to Ecosystems”.
27 April 2021
Lab Matters
EMBL Director General Edith Heard has been elected into the US National Academy of Sciences, recognising her contributions to research.
26 April 2021
Lab Matters
Edith Heard has been appointed to a new World Health Organization advisory council.
26 April 2021
Lab Matters
A memorandum of understanding has been signed between EMBL, Collège de France, and the Institute of Biology of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS).
21 April 2021
Lab Matters
In a talk on 29 April, Professor Jeanette Woolard will share her experience of creating a more positive research culture
13 April 2021
Lab Matters
Florent Cipriani, who recently retired as Head of the Instrumentation Team after a long career at EMBL Grenoble, is one of the pioneers of instrumentation development in this field.
7 April 2021
Lab Matters
The challenges and opportunities when setting up a global archive for bioimages
6 April 2021
Lab Matters
This MoU formalises a 15-year collaboration between the two institutes and strengthens Grenoble as a European research centre in the life sciences.
30 March 2021
Lab Matters
The new group leader at EMBL Rome will study how embryos can inherit non-genetic information from their parents that causes stable and heritable effects
15 March 2021
Lab Matters
Nassos Typas has received the German VAAM Research Award.
9 March 2021
Lab Matters
The contribution of EMBL Group Leader and Senior Scientist Wolfgang Huber has been recognised by the International Society for Computational Biology
8 March 2021
Lab Matters
Tracey Brown from Sense about Science shares her thoughts on the need to empower women to share and access scientific information.
8 March 2021
Lab Matters
Members of EMBL’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee explain how EMBL is choosing to challenge through its LEAP mentoring programme.
3 March 2021
Lab Matters
EMBL invites Simon Gallow, an advocate at UN Women UK, to give a talk marking International Women’s Day.
1 March 2021
Lab Matters
Applications are now open for the Life Science Alliance’s Bridging Excellence Fellowships, enabling postdocs to carry out collaborative projects at EMBL and Stanford University.
26 February 2021
Lab Matters
EMBL's Environmental Officer Brendan Rouse explains more about his role as a European Climate Pact Ambassador.
26 February 2021
Lab Matters
As one of EMBL’s newest group leaders, Sinem Saka will combine multiple technologies, such as microscopy and single-cell omics, to solve biological puzzles.
23 February 2021
Lab Matters
Being a woman in science takes allies, not just great science. Here, EMBL’s L’Oréal–UNESCO Fellows talk about support networks.
22 February 2021
Lab Matters
Anne Ephrussi has been awarded the German Feldberg Prize 2022 in recognition of her outstanding research.
22 February 2021
Lab Matters
The Sample Preparation and Characterisation (SPC) Facility at EMBL Hamburg is one of the founding members of the Molecular-Scale Biophysics Research Infrastructure (MOSBRI). Within this new European initiative, the SPC Facility will offer services related to membrane proteins, protein complexes,…
19 February 2021
Lab Matters
Gautam Dey is fascinated by the evolutionary origins of the nucleus, and is looking forward to making the most of EMBL's infrastructure.
18 February 2021
Lab Matters
Professor Dame Janet Thornton discusses work–life balance, the support she has received during her career, and how organisations can help staff during the COVID-19 pandemic
11 February 2021
Lab Matters
EMBL and EMBRC have signed a memorandum of understanding for increased scientific collaboration.
11 February 2021
Lab Matters
EMBL Teen Maria-Theresa Licka shares how female scientists guided & inspired her to develop an app to ID vine disease.
9 February 2021
Lab Matters
Roshni Mooneeram discusses what Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is to her, and what the meaning of allyship is.
4 February 2021
Lab Matters
Open letter galvanises life science community in support of open COVID-19 data
29 January 2021
Lab Matters
EMBL and CNR have signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen scientific cooperation. The agreement will foster collaborative projects and integrate them within the European and global scientific landscape.
28 January 2021
Lab Matters
The latest issue of Science in School highlights the eight members of EIROforum.
27 January 2021
Lab Matters
New group leader Nicoletta Petridou explains her fascination with the complexity of early embryo development, and how the interdisciplinary nature of EMBL will aid her research.
20 January 2021
Lab Matters
EMBL and the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg are increasing their already existing collaborations with a Memorandum of Understanding between the two institutions.
18 January 2021
Lab Matters
The EMBL Imaging Centre is scheduled to open in 2021 with Timo Zimmermann as Team Leader for advanced light microscopy technology development and service provision.
15 January 2021
Lab Matters
One of EMBL’s newest group leaders, Olivier Duss, will explore how RNA folds into functional structures and how it works with proteins to control a diverse range of activities in the cell.
12 January 2021
Lab Matters
EMBL’s sites in Grenoble, Hamburg, and Heidelberg form the newest Instruct Centre. The new centre offers users access to a broad range of state-of-the-art facilities.
23 December 2020
Lab Matters
Schoolchildren create exquisite protein-inspired artworks
11 December 2020
Lab Matters
Facilitated by EMBL’s Scientific Visitor Programme in 2019, Silvia Dias Almeida spent a year in the Diz-Muñoz group, helping solidify her career plans and set her up for a competitive PhD programme in biomedical imaging.
9 December 2020
Lab Matters
Funding by the European Research Council (ERC) will support research on the timing of developmental processes in mammals
2 December 2020
Lab Matters
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has recognised four EMBL researchers with their most recent awards, showing how tech trailblazers are integral to advancing science and medicine.
23 November 2020
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EMBL’s Eileen Furlong, Chair of the Equality and Diversity Committee and Head of the Genome Biology Unit, responds to the recent Nature Comms paper on the potential effects of mentor–mentee relationships.
20 November 2020
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EMBL Director General Edith Heard introduced EMBL’s future plans during a parliamentary event at the Paul-Löbe-Haus of the German Bundestag in Berlin. She shared examples of EMBL’s research and outlined how EMBL’s activities will develop.
17 November 2020
Lab Matters
Ever-evolving technology and related budgetary, regulatory, and management challenges prompted EMBL to establish its new ARISE fellowship programme, which begins accepting applicants in December.
23 October 2020
Lab Matters
Why should researchers make artificial intelligence more transparent and how can they do it?
22 October 2020
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EMBL’s Rupert Lück is engaged in developing the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC): the infrastructure that will support the future of data sharing and analysis in Europe.
19 October 2020
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EMBL and CIML have signed a memorandum of understanding that will open up new scientific opportunities.
16 October 2020
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New associate group leader at EMBL Hamburg investigates the structure of functional amyloids in bacteria and in human disease
13 October 2020
Lab Matters
On 9 October, EMBL and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding that paves the way for stronger collaboration between these two leading research institutions.
8 October 2020
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Research facilities play a crucial role in the advancement of science by supporting scientists with specialised expertise and state-of-the-art equipment. The Microscopy Facility at EMBL Rome exemplifies this role by making a wide variety of light microscopy technologies available to its researchers…
5 October 2020
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On 8 September, EMBL and Vilnius University Life Sciences Center signed a framework agreement for the establishment of the VU LSC–EMBL Partnership for Genome Editing Technologies.
10 September 2020
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ARISE fellowships to offer first-ever comprehensive training for bioscience infrastructure operations
8 September 2020
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A decadal roadmap points the way to cell-based medicine for Europe
7 September 2020
Lab Matters
Two EMBL speakers gave presentations that looked toward the future and at ways to trailblaze on the endless frontier of science.
3 September 2020
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Maria Bernabeu and Wojciech Galej have each been awarded €1.5 million to research malaria and pre-mRNA splicing, respectively.
2 September 2020
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EMBL-EBI is one of the eight European institutes involved in the Humanoid Cell Atlas initiative, a new open-access platform that combines single-cell profiling and organoid technology
1 September 2020
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As the EMBL Fellows' Career Service program reaches a milestone, it reflects on its first year and looks forward to ways to improve its offerings to EMBL postdocs and predocs.
27 August 2020
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The Head of the Electron Microscopy Core Facility at EMBL Heidelberg receives Mid-Career Scientific Achievement Award 2020
25 August 2020
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The EMBL International PhD Programme is one of EMBL’s flagship training programmes. It forms part of our efforts to train and inspire talented scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders. Submission of applications for the current PhD student recruitment round is now possible.
24 August 2020
Lab Matters
The new team leader offering services in electron microscopy discusses his hopes and plans for the forthcoming EMBL Imaging Centre
20 August 2020
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The Web Development team provides a central source of web design and development for EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). In July, Geetika Malhotra joined the team as their new Head.
7 August 2020
Lab Matters
As he enters retirement, Head of EMBL Rome Phil Avner reflects on his scientific career and memories from his time as Head of EMBL’s site in Italy
6 August 2020
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Researchers from all life science disciplines – from fundamental biological research to medical applications – generate immense datasets. Analysing these datasets and gaining new knowledge from them is a growing challenge for scientists. The fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine…
17 July 2020
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EMBL Director General Edith Heard and EMBO Director Maria Leptin respond to the current proposal on the Multiannual Financial Framework.
17 July 2020
Lab Matters
European collaboration receives funding to explore risks and impact of future infectious disease outbreaks.
16 July 2020
Lab Matters
Three changes in senior staff positions have been confirmed at EMBL today. Jessica Vamathevan becomes Head of Strategy, Jan Korbel becomes Head of Data Science for EMBL Heidelberg, and Nassos Typas becomes Senior Scientist.
13 July 2020
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The European Learning Laboratory for the Life Sciences (ELLS), EMBL’s education facility, invites secondary school science teachers to participate in a virtual training course this autumn entitled ‘Introducing your microbiome’.
8 July 2020
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Latvia has joined EMBL as a prospect member, starting a three-year process toward full membership.
8 July 2020
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This year, EMBO elected 63 new members, including Alexander Aulehla, Group Leader and Senior Scientist at EMBL Heidelberg, and Paul Flicek, Associate Director of EMBL-EBI Services, Senior Scientist, Group and Team Leader at EMBL-EBI.
8 July 2020
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The CrystalDirect® technology, combined with the web-based CRIMS software enable a fully automated, remote-controlled protein-to-structure pipeline.
6 July 2020
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EMBL Director General Edith Heard has been elected a senator of the Max Planck Society, one of Germany’s leading scientific research organisations. She joins the Senate along with Nobel Laureates and EMBL alumni Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Stefan W. Hell, as well as nine additional new…
2 July 2020
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The governing Council of EMBL has approved Director General Edith Heard’s restructure of senior management with effect from 1 July 2020.
1 July 2020
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Open Targets welcomes new Informatics Science Director
30 June 2020
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A national consortium including EMBL and the DKFZ is set to launch the German Human Genome–Phenome Archive, creating an invaluable bridge between fundamental biomedical research and applied healthcare.
26 June 2020
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EMBL is joining the virtual seminar series ‘Life Science Across the Globe’ – a timely initiative to foster international scientific exchange across countries and continents, starting on 1 July.
23 June 2020
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EMBL is striving to make its labs and offices a welcoming and inclusive environment for all. To achieve this goal, EMBL's Equality and Diversity Officers, Luisa Vieites Rodrigues and Zac O'Sullivan, are working closely with leadership and the EMBL community. In this interview, they share their…
22 June 2020
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Jan Korbel and Oliver Stegle have performed a survey of fellow life scientists to learn how the current crisis, with partial or complete institutional shutdowns, is affecting their work.
15 June 2020
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The European Molecular Biology Laboratory has secured 6.8 million Euros funding from the European Commission to launch a unique training programme. The ARISE Programme will train and develop Europe’s next generation leadership for research infrastructures in the life sciences.
19 May 2020
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The nervous system has fascinated Georgia Rapti ever since her first introduction to biology. Her research group in the Developmental Biology unit will focus on understanding the early biological events involved in the nervous system’s formation.
14 May 2020
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EMBL welcomes NetApp, a leader in cloud data services empowering global organisations to change their world with data, as member of the Corporate Partnership Programme of the EMBL Advanced Training Centre.
4 May 2020
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The Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine has been awarded 210,000 euros. The funds will be used to train the next generation of specialists and research leaders in molecular medicine in the Nordic countries.
22 April 2020
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To address global challenges, we need to better understand life in the context of environmental change, says EMBL Director General Edith Heard
22 April 2020
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Brendan Rouse came to Heidelberg in March as EMBL’s Environmental Officer, tasked with monitoring the organisation’s environmental impact and promoting sustainable practices. Here, he discusses his plans for the new role.
9 April 2020
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EMBL Director General Edith Heard responds to the resignation of the President of the European Research Council (ERC)
2 April 2020
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Three international teams involving EMBL Heidelberg have been granted funding from the European Commission for three Twinning projects with institutes in Portugal and the Czech Republic.
31 March 2020
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Bastian Drees is a biophysicist turned librarian, who joined EMBL in January as the new Head of Library. Here, he discusses the changing role of libraries and how they can help scientists organise and share their results.
25 March 2020
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EMBL is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for our staff and visitors.
20 March 2020
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Stories from EMBL’s past are captured via the EMBL Archive’s Oral Histories programme
26 February 2020
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Theresia Bauer and EMBL discuss organisational developments and future strategies
20 February 2020
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EMBL’s new Science and Society Manager shares her plans for fostering multidisciplinary dialogue
18 February 2020
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2020 call now open for FNR funding of bilateral projects between EMBL and Luxembourg
13 February 2020
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EMBL Director General recognised alongside four other exceptional women in the life sciences
10 February 2020
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How EMBL’s ‘Microscope in Action’ introduces teenagers to the basics of fluorescence microscopy
31 January 2020
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Today marks the next chapter in the UK’s relationship with Europe. While we wait to see what a future relationship brings, researchers will continue to work across borders to tackle society’s most pressing problems, such as climate change, ageing, and disease.
29 January 2020
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New grant will increase collaboration between imaging centres and fuel scientific discovery
22 January 2020
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The new EMBL spinoff company Araxa Biosciences GmbH aims to set new standards for the development of antibody-based therapeutics and diagnostics
21 January 2020
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Judith Reichmann will receive this year’s Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for Young Researchers
20 January 2020
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The latest issue of the free magazine, Science in School, is now available for teachers worldwide.
15 January 2020
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The call for applications for Bridging Excellence Fellowships is now open
19 December 2019
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EU funding for iNEXT-Discovery consortium unlocks key technologies for structural biology
17 December 2019
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EMBL’s Jan Ellenberg reflects on the process of forming a European research infrastructure
13 December 2019
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Forty-seven PhD students from all of EMBL’s six sites were celebrated during EMBL’s 2019 Graduation Ceremony on Friday 13 December
13 December 2019
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EMBL is now a member of the Instruct-ERIC organisation
9 December 2019
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Professor Eiríkur Steingrímsson will commence his initial one-year term as Chair of EMBL Council on 1 January 2020.
25 November 2019
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For many students in the life sciences, finishing a PhD marks a professional crossroads
20 November 2019
Lab Matters
The Szilárd Library celebrates its 40th anniversary on 20 November 2019.
15 November 2019
Lab Matters
EMBL is a collaborator in four of the projects funded in the first phase of ATTRACT.
7 November 2019
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Euro-BioImaging now established as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium
29 October 2019
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EMBL career advisors discuss the new portfolio of activities
9 August 2019
Lab Matters
Native Scientist’ organises multilingual science workshops for children of migrant communities.
31 July 2019
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Interview with Janka Motešická: a EUCYS 2018 prize winner
25 July 2019
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Indrek Reimand discusses the life sciences in Estonia, a prospect member of EMBL.
23 July 2019
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Promotions for Anne Ephrussi, Rainer Pepperkok, Paul Flicek and Jo McEntyre
17 July 2019
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Tomasz Smolarek and Natalia Kret in conversation.
8 July 2019
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Reflecting on 20 years of EMBLEM
4 July 2019
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Setting up a kids coding club - where to start
28 June 2019
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EIPOD4 will prepare researchers for the increasing interdisciplinarity of scientific career paths
26 June 2019
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Joining forces to support early-career scientists
19 June 2019
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The team at ELLS use Lego to teach children the fundamentals of DNA.
13 June 2019
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The head of EMBL’s Barcelona site joins a prestigious group of more than 1800 scientists worldwide
11 June 2019
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Lithuania becomes EMBL’s 27th member state
7 June 2019
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Overwhelmed as a biologist getting to grips with computer programming? EMBLers are here to help!
9 May 2019
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Edith Heard and Jean-Eric Paquet discuss the future of European science
2 May 2019
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EMBL success in attracting EU funding
18 April 2019
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The current and previous Directors General discuss what it means to lead an organisation like EMBL
12 April 2019
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Building bonds between academia and industry
11 April 2019
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The Nordic EMBL Partnership directors discuss the value of collaborating across borders
8 April 2019
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New head of ORD will build and expand the partnerships that help EMBL achieve its ambitions
5 April 2019
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The Francis Crick Institute and EMBL have agreed to work together to strengthen European science
2 April 2019
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EMBL’s Plamena Markova reflects on the EMBL Partnership Programme
26 March 2019
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EMBL begins partnership with Polish centre of excellence for neural plasticity and brain disorders
21 March 2019
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PDBe-KB - new data resource for protein structure and function launches
6 February 2019
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On 5 February 2019, EMBL welcomed Poland as its 26th member state
31 January 2019
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Enhancing the world's bioinformatics infrastructure
31 January 2019
Lab Matters
A collection of the most read articles from the EMBL news website in 2018
23 January 2019
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New director drives drug discovery partnership forward
17 January 2019
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Joining forces to advance training in biomedical research and therapy
2 January 2019
Lab Matters
On January 1 2019, Edith Heard takes up the position of EMBL’s Director General
18 December 2018
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EMBL’s Design Team Lead on translating scientific discoveries into visual designs
7 December 2018
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EMBL’s GeneCore steps up to discover the facts and settle disputes
5 December 2018
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EMBL partners with the Hungarian Centre of Excellence for Molecular Medicine
30 November 2018
Lab Matters
What does it take to create a vaccine or improve cancer therapies?
26 November 2018
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Building bridges between scientists and software developers
21 November 2018
Lab Matters
The EMBL Archive is open for business!
16 November 2018
Lab Matters
How EMBL scientists are using machine learning to advance biology
30 October 2018
Lab Matters
Pharmaceutical company Sanofi strengthens drug targets discovery collaboration Open Targets
26 October 2018
Lab Matters
Ioanna Ydraiou and Bernd Pulverer spoke about their view of challenges and opportunities of OA.
22 October 2018
Lab Matters
Researchers at EMBL Hamburg have released the next generation of their ARP/wARP software
20 September 2018
Lab Matters
EMBL and Promega collaborate to train young scientists
5 September 2018
Lab Matters
ATTRACT initiative will fund 170 breakthrough detection and imaging ideas with market potential
16 August 2018
Lab Matters
The ATTRACT initiative, of which EMBL is a partner, has launched an open call for seed funding
2 August 2018
Lab Matters
Discover how EMBLers across all sites share their passion for science
11 June 2018
Lab Matters
Roche and EMBL join forces
8 June 2018
Lab Matters
A history of EMBL in six objects from the EMBL Archive
30 May 2018
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Montenegro becomes EMBL’s 25th member state
24 May 2018
Lab Matters
EMBL-EBI PhD student launches start-up focusing on epigenetics and wellbeing
11 May 2018
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EMBL’s Director General has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences of the United States
9 May 2018
Lab Matters
EMBL alumna, Èlia Benito-Gutiérrez, on how her research and career evolved after searching the seas
4 May 2018
Lab Matters
New partner strengthens drug discovery collaboration
23 April 2018
Lab Matters
Montenegro’s Minister of Science discusses the importance of international collaboration in research
22 March 2018
Lab Matters
Following the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2001, scientists and the media described the genome as “the book of life”, holding the answers to the way genes are linked to disease. Yet, seventeen years later, we are still deciphering how cells interpret this book. Since…
21 March 2018
Lab Matters
EMBL Group Leader creates Ben Barres Prize to support talented young neuroscientists
13 March 2018
Lab Matters
For Vasiliki Karyoti, troubleshooting and problem-solving take on a greater meaning at EMBL
7 March 2018
Lab Matters
New EMBL spinoff company Velabs Therapeutics aims to speed up discovery of therapeutic antibodies
5 March 2018
Lab Matters
Maria Leptin reflects on how to create a research environment that serves the needs of the community
23 February 2018
Lab Matters
Discover the past lives and journeys that brought people to EMBL
21 February 2018
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Joining forces for single-cell research
31 January 2018
Lab Matters
EMBL welcomes Slovakia as its 24th member state
29 January 2018
Lab Matters
EMBL instrumentation teams adapting tech to run biological experiments on the synchrotron after its upgrade
22 December 2017
Lab Matters
Historian Soraya de Chadarevian explores how EMBL’s first Director General shaped molecular biology
21 December 2017
Lab Matters
A look back at some of the most read stories on EMBL’s news website this year
5 December 2017
Lab Matters
Curious about what goes on in EMBL’s Fly Room? Prepare to be a fly on the wall
4 December 2017
Lab Matters
Takeda joins pioneering public-private drug discover collaboration Open Targets
30 November 2017
Lab Matters
EMBL Director General elect, Edith Heard, awarded 2017’s Grand Prix Inserm for her work in epigenetics
29 November 2017
Lab Matters
EMBLers across all sites share how their curiosity about the world shapes their everyday life
28 November 2017
Lab Matters
Interview with EMBL’s Joint Heads of Government and EU Relations
27 November 2017
Lab Matters
Takashi Hiiragi and Lars Steinmetz received Advanced Grants from the European Research Council (ERC)
24 November 2017
Lab Matters
EMBL releases recommendations for the 9th EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation
20 November 2017
Lab Matters
Six curious questions and the EMBL community's answers. Check back each week for the next question
20 November 2017
Lab Matters
EMBL and HeidelbergCement sign Memorandum of Understanding
10 November 2017
Lab Matters
EMBL and the European synchrotron ESRF extend their Joint Structural Biology Group
6 November 2017
Lab Matters
Aid for Labs is an EMBL-based charity aiming to provide scientific equipment to researchers in need
4 October 2017
Lab Matters
How Australia’s associate membership of EMBL empowers scientists and drives collaboration
4 October 2017
Lab Matters
Bernt Eric Uhlin, Director of MIMS, will replace Kjetil Taskén, Director of NCMM
2 October 2017
Lab Matters
EMBL’s annual reception took place on 18 September, with more than 150 attendees
7 September 2017
Lab Matters
EMBL researchers separated facts from fiction at a Friends of EMBL Science Movie Night
31 August 2017
Lab Matters
German state and federal governments agree funding for microscopy centre at EMBL Heidelberg
25 August 2017
Lab Matters
Biologists Sydney Brenner and Richard J. Roberts addressed the importance of scientific archives
26 July 2017
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School student Andrea Totaro and EMBL group leader Christophe Lancrin reflect
25 July 2017
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NEB joins EMBL’s corporate partnership programme
24 July 2017
Lab Matters
EMBL-EBI supports bioinformatics training and capacity in Latin America
11 July 2017
Lab Matters
EMBL’s cycling team complete epic journey to raise money for Heidelberg’s children’s hospital
11 July 2017
Lab Matters
EMBL’s unit in Italy changes name to better reflect new research focuses and highlight its location
6 July 2017
Lab Matters
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…
28 June 2017
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Edith Heard’s mandate scheduled to begin 1 January 2019
1 June 2017
Lab Matters
EMBL-EBI, the Broad and UCSC Genomics Institute to build Data Coordination Platform with CZI support
29 May 2017
Lab Matters
Inventor of OPT will be the first Head of EMBL’s new Barcelona site
24 May 2017
Lab Matters
People across EMBL’s sites reflect on the ways they perceive their world
8 May 2017
Lab Matters
Accelerating researchers’ access to next-generation light-sheet microscopy
2 May 2017
Lab Matters
EMBL welcomes its 23rd member state, with a promising collaboration already in place
12 April 2017
Lab Matters
EMBL alumnus Konrad Müller has sadly passed away
11 April 2017
Lab Matters
Call for applications for school students to join ‘Summer in Science’ in Monterotondo
10 April 2017
Lab Matters
Spanish government and EMBL sign agreement for new site
10 April 2017
Lab Matters
EMBL Director-General, Iain Mattaj, reflects on the work done to establish a new site in Barcelona
7 April 2017
Lab Matters
EMBL’s Monterotondo site strengthens links with the Italian scientific community
6 April 2017
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Silke Schumacher explains how the new EMBL site in Barcelona came into being
29 March 2017
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Anna Tramontano, bioinformatics pioneer and EMBL alumna, has passed away
29 March 2017
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Janet Thornton reflects on the contributions of EMBL alumna Anna Tramontano
29 March 2017
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Diversity, internationality and collaboration works, writes EMBL Director-General Iain Mattaj
24 March 2017
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“Without John Kendrew there would have been no EMBL,” wrote Ken Holmes
21 March 2017
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EMBL’s new Academic Coordinator and Dean of Graduate Studies Monika Lachner leads programmes that help young scientists to flourish
8 March 2017
Lab Matters
Ottoline Leyser on the fallacy of failure and the road to self-determination
16 February 2017
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Sartorius and EMBL join forces to support advanced training and science education
16 February 2017
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GSK and EMBL have signed an agreement to enhance understanding of disease and drug mechanisms
16 February 2017
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Beamline BM14 in Grenoble shuts down, continues collaboration with India
31 January 2017
Lab Matters
In this interview from the EMBL Archive, Sir John Kendrew reflects on his time leading 'the Lab'.
26 January 2017
Lab Matters
Helke Hillebrand on leaving EMBL after 9 years as Academic Coordinator and Dean of Graduate Studies
20 December 2016
Lab Matters
Ewan Birney's nine "Structures of Christmas" celebrate 20 years of PDBe
20 December 2016
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Iain Mattaj on failure, adventure, determination and the Scientific Method
19 December 2016
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For the past two months EMBL Heidelberg has hosted around 60 first year PhD students from EMBL’s International PhD Programme (EIPP). From thousands of applicants, the students were selected from over 40 countries to work on their PhD research at one of EMBL’s five sites – Grenoble, Hamburg,…
14 December 2016
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A new crystallography platform in Grenoble opens the door to new technological developments
1 December 2016
Lab Matters
EMBL’s Petra Riedinger retires after 40 years producing posters, graphics, artwork and more
29 November 2016
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How a team of scientists and artists at EMBL transformed microscopy data into stunning 3D images
22 November 2016
Lab Matters
EMBL study finds that rearranging how DNA packs the nucleus can activate cancer genes
11 November 2016
Lab Matters
Upgraded server room is ready to take the heat at EMBL Grenoble
10 November 2016
Lab Matters
Hope Jahren’s autobiography educates and delights
17 October 2016
Lab Matters
We catch up with neuroscientist Craig Stark, speaker at the EMBL/EMBO Science and Society Conference
14 October 2016
Lab Matters
Global Alliance for Genomics and Health chose Birney to lead efforts to bring genomics to the clinic
6 October 2016
Lab Matters
Rosemary Wilson talks about imposter syndrome and how to handle it
29 September 2016
Lab Matters
EMBL recently attended the Naturejobs Career Expo, advising scientists about their career options
27 September 2016
Lab Matters
CORBEL Open Call launches October 2016, for access to 15 facilities and 8 research infrastructures
13 September 2016
Lab Matters
Stephen Cusack looks back on the early days of his collaboration with Anacor developing anti-infectives
13 September 2016
Lab Matters
Andrés Palencia on the design of compounds that may help fight drug-resistant TB and more
13 September 2016
Lab Matters
A new repository helps identify emerging trends in data-driven science.
12 September 2016
Lab Matters
EMBL and the Hubrecht Institute signed a 5-year partnership agreement
30 August 2016
Lab Matters
Turning the spotlight on the diverse universe of EMBL’s 200-strong postdoc community
30 August 2016
Lab Matters
Celebrating the rich history of scientific contributions in Malta, EMBL's newest member state
30 August 2016
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Unexpected adventures at EMBL LearningLAB focused on biodiversity
30 August 2016
Lab Matters
Integration, collaboration and openness on agenda for Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research
30 August 2016
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Bruce Alberts on fixing the broken academic career pipeline
29 August 2016
Lab Matters
EMBL scientists regularly receive prestigious awards – meet the latest honourees.
4 August 2016
Lab Matters
German students visit EMBL-EBI on a tour to explore a new culture and different career paths
30 June 2016
Lab Matters
In a time of great uncertainty, key facts about EMBL's status, collaborations, funding and recruitment
24 June 2016
Lab Matters
The UK’s decision to leave the EU has no direct consequences for the UK’s membership of EMBL
7 June 2016
Lab Matters
Grenoble-based Partnership for Structural Biology (PSB) renewed for five more years
21 April 2016
Lab Matters
Review of 'Life’s Blueprint: The Science and Art of Embryo Creation' by Benny Shilo
21 April 2016
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Illustrator Edmond Baudoin donates an original artwork to the EMBL Archive
21 April 2016
Lab Matters
EMBL scientists regularly receive prestigious awards – meet the latest honourees.
8 March 2016
Lab Matters
Award acknowledges leadership in gender equality on the Wellcome Genome Campus
29 February 2016
Lab Matters
Iain Mattaj talks about the search for his successor
11 February 2016
Lab Matters
Independent analysis of EMBL-EBI underscores the value and impact of open data in the life sciences
8 February 2016
Lab Matters
Pioneering target validation collaboration expands to accelerate drug discovery research.
25 January 2016
Lab Matters
"We’re open! We’re open to working with everybody, we’re open to new things."
8 December 2015
Lab Matters
Identifying evidence-based relationships between drug targets and diseases.
30 November 2015
Lab Matters
The new Toolkit for Trainers, an online resource hosted at EMBL-EBI, helps biomedical science trainers create and explore new ways of teaching.
30 November 2015
Lab Matters
"There’s nothing nicer than seeing a user leave the facility happy"
25 November 2015
Lab Matters
Compelling short stories that shine light on the life and work of EMBL staff.
25 November 2015
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Roland Block, EMBL's Head of HR, on emphasising the ‘human’ in human resources.
25 November 2015
Lab Matters
Ewan Birney on the risks, rewards and realities of studying humans as a model species.
25 November 2015
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Halldór Stefánsson on the long history of complex interactions between humans and animals.
25 November 2015
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Giuseppe Testa reflects on the myriad intersections of our digital and biological lives.
25 November 2015
Lab Matters
Postdoc Thibaut Brunet reviews two popular science books that explore the rise of Homo sapiens.
25 November 2015
Lab Matters
What does a physicist do in a biology lab?
24 November 2015
Lab Matters
EMBL scientists regularly receive prestigious awards – meet the latest honourees.
24 November 2015
Lab Matters
Sybrand van der Zwaag gives his five top tips for young researchers thinking about their next move.
26 October 2015
Lab Matters
Hamburg researchers have a ball creating game to explain transporter protein mechanism.
14 October 2015
Lab Matters
A microscopy technique is poised to shine new light on biological questions: as sheets of light can scan everything from developing embryos to single cells or functioning brains, a technique called light-sheet microscopy is gaining traction. It enables scientists to observe living cells in three…
5 October 2015
Lab Matters
Amidst the excitement of Nobel Week, behind the scenes of the annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings.
29 September 2015
Lab Matters
Sveiki Lietuva! Lithuania becomes EMBL’s fourth prospect member state.
29 September 2015
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Gold medal celebrates Eric Karsenti’s exceptional career and outstanding contributions to biology.
29 September 2015
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Renewals and reunions: EMBL’s Nordic partners look to the future.
14 September 2015
Lab Matters
Introducing the Small Angle Scattering Biological Data Bank, developed at EMBL Hamburg.
7 September 2015
Lab Matters
“A structure alone is not so interesting, you need the biology too,” says new NMR-focused group leader
3 September 2015
Lab Matters
New group explores why patients with same cancer exhibit unique constellations of genetic mutations.
25 August 2015
Lab Matters
Maja Köhn’s lab is ideal to learn what life is like working at the interface of disciplines.
24 August 2015
Lab Matters
Janet Thornton reflects on her time as Director of one of Europe’s fastest growing research institutes.
24 August 2015
Lab Matters
EMBL scientists regularly receive prestigious awards – meet the latest honourees.
24 August 2015
Lab Matters
What’s on your Summer reading list? Here are some favourites of staff in the Lab.
24 August 2015
Lab Matters
Maria Kamber, who heads the mouse facility, ensures “dignity, compassion and respect” for her charges.
20 August 2015
Lab Matters
EMBL Core Facilities collaborate with French research programme Signalife to revive training visit.
28 July 2015
Lab Matters
Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU) with the University of Heidelberg, renewed until 2025.
28 July 2015
Lab Matters
Alumnus Damian Brunner revisits EMBL in a very special capacity, as Swiss delegate on EMBL’s Council.
13 July 2015
Lab Matters
EI3POD: flagship interdisciplinary postdoc programme opens its doors to academia and industry.
9 July 2015
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“Interactions: that’s what I like the most in biology” – meet Lukáš Janošík, EUCYS 2014 prize winner.
9 July 2015
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Database administrator's photo essay reflects internationality and personality of the Genome Campus.
3 July 2015
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Academic community clouds take cancer research towards a brighter future.
30 June 2015
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Staff gather to celebrate Janet Thorton's 14 years as Director of EMBL-EBI.
18 June 2015
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Sarah Teichmann recognised for her contributions to science with the EMBO Gold Award 2015.
15 June 2015
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EMBL’s new open access policy aims to make EMBL research widely and freely accessible.
10 June 2015
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CERN openlab enters a new phase, expanding to include EMBL-EBI and other public research organisations.
3 June 2015
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Jenny Cham blogs about how ORCID helps distinguish her from all the other Jenny Chams in the world.
2 June 2015
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HMMER – a fast, sensitive search tool – helps find sequence relationships deep in evolutionary time.
27 May 2015
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ELIXIR receives major Horizon 2020 funding to ‘EXCELERATE' activities over the next four years.
5 May 2015
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Stephen Cusack, head of EMBL Grenoble, among 47 new Royal Society fellows.
5 May 2015
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In their quest to make structural biology more accessible, PDBe launches a new website.
29 April 2015
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EMBL’s new Archivist will help chronicle the twists and turns, ups and downs of life at the Lab.
29 April 2015
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Q&A: Which analogy best describes your research?
29 April 2015
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Karin Sasaki is helping bridge the gap between quantitative and life science at EMBL.
9 April 2015
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Major EU funding for CORBEL, facilitating access to data and biological imaging facilities.
7 April 2015
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GWAS Catalog, originally developed by the NHGRI in the US, moves to EMBL-EBI.
1 April 2015
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Klaus Tschira, a tireless supporter of science, education and talent, died 31 March 2015.
11 March 2015
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Rolf Apweiler and Ewan Birney appointed Joint Directors of EMBL-EBI, as Janet Thornton steps down.
10 March 2015
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A quick round-up of the latest EMBL-EBI service releases.
8 March 2015
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Wellcome Genome Campus gives first Best Practice Award for Supporting Women in Science.
2 March 2015
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Building and visualising protein-interaction networks is easier and more accurate thanks to IntAct.
27 February 2015
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Jeffrey Barrett appointed Director of CTTV, the GSK, EMBL-EBI and Sanger Institute partnership.
28 January 2015
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A blog extract by Ewan Birney reflects on the challenges of moving a massive data-centre.
26 January 2015
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Find answers to 40 of your questions about life, the Lab and everything!
26 January 2015
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EMBL scientists regularly receive prestigious awards – meet the latest honourees.
26 January 2015
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Which tales have illuminated something important to you? Staff from the Lab provide their favourite.
26 January 2015
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Meet Dean of Graduate Studies, Helke Hillebrand.
23 January 2015
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PhD student Silvia Rohr on studying eyes – and talking about it for a general audience.
20 January 2015
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New project aims to speed up detection and response to disease outbreaks using genome technology.
16 January 2015
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New Christian Boulin Fellowship: 15 awards of up to €1500 for visitors to EMBL’s Core Facilities.
8 January 2015
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EMBL-EBI supports relaunch of yourgenome.org, to bring genetics advances to a wider audience.
15 December 2014
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Third round of calls for joint research projects between EMBL and Luxembourg in 2015
11 December 2014
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The day EMBL Hamburg predocs and postdocs invited Nobel Prize Winner Ada Yonath to dinner.
27 November 2014
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Workshops, seminars and honorary lectures – strong start for EMBL’s newest associate member state.
4 November 2014
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'Big Data to Knowledge' project by UCLA, Scripps and EMBL-EBI to transform protein data to knowledge.
27 October 2014
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How the author of a prize-winning project on bee travel ended up at a stem cells and cancer conference
21 October 2014
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How does EMBL-EBI run millions of jobs for its users while moving its two large data centres?
17 October 2014
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Music, bubbles and DNA: a collaborative project brings artist and scientist together
17 October 2014
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EMBL scientists regularly receive prestigious awards - meet the latest honourees
17 October 2014
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Drumming, drama, dancing and discovery in a diary of art and science event, Roche Continents.
17 October 2014
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Bibliophiles from the Lab pick out the stories that have inspired them at work and elsewhere.
17 October 2014
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PhD student Charles breeze found inspiration at this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting.
9 October 2014
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Pathfinding – poetic and practical – was a common theme in blogs from the EMBL network.
8 September 2014
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Andrew D Robertson, scientific coordinator of EICAT between 2011–12, died on 14 August 2014.
5 September 2014
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Tschira-Jugendakademie pupils get hands-on during day of DNA barcoding
27 August 2014
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Nordic partners focus on "enhancing research enterprise", says Kjetil Taskén
18 August 2014
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Artist Stephen Wright gifts artwork inspired by DNA storage research to EMBL-EBI.
8 August 2014
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A quick round-up of the latest EMBL-EBI service releases
8 August 2014
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Gyron Ltd awarded contract to supply EMBL-EBI's data centres over the next five years
31 July 2014
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New genomics API allows researchers to share anonymised genetic data seamlessly across platforms.
16 July 2014
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Have a pressing question? EMBL experts are standing by to answer! Submit yours today.
15 July 2014
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Czech delegate Jana Bystřická represents EMBL's 21st member state at her first Council Meeting.
1 July 2014
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As the Lab turns 40, staff and alumni share 40 things that make EMBL, EMBL
1 July 2014
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School ambassadors show next generation that scientists are more ‘role model’ than ‘mad professor’
1 July 2014
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EMBL scientists regularly receive prestigious awards - meet the latest honourees
1 July 2014
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To photographer Horst Hamann, it's the people, not the science, that make EMBL unique
1 July 2014
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Film enthusiasts from the Lab review their favourite science movies, one for each EMBL decade
1 July 2014
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Christian Boulin, EMBL’s Director of Core Facilities and Services, died on 27 April 2014
1 July 2014
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What might life alien life look like? Lewis Dartnell studies extreme bacteria to find out
1 July 2014
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As the Lab turns 40, staff and alumni share 40 things that make EMBL, EMBL
1 July 2014
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Busy times for EMBL keep Director of International Relations Silke Schumacher on the move
1 July 2014
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Scientists from EMBL's five sites reflect on the opportunities and challenges that might lie ahead
1 July 2014
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Which scientific breakthroughs would EMBL scientists most like to see in the next 40 years?
25 June 2014
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A new EMBL-EBI biomedical initiative works to determine the best target proteins for new drugs.
27 March 2014
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A pioneering public-private research initiative between GSK, the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is to harness the power of ‘big data’ and genome sequencing to improve the success rate for discovering new medicines. The new Centre for…
24 February 2014
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Europe is uniting to make state-of-the-art imaging technologies accessible to biomedical researchers throughout the continent in a concerted manner. The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and seven countries (Belgium, Finland, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom)…
27 March 2013
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Euro-BioImaging, the pan-European open access research infrastructure for biological and medical imaging technologies, invites leading European imaging facilities to submit proposals to participate. Applications to become a Euro-BioImaging node will be reviewed by a board of independent…
5 March 2013
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Today, the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine celebrates two important milestones: the renewal of the partnership agreement for an extended period of 10 years, and the expansion of the Nordic EMBL network with the official opening of the Danish Research Institute of Translational…
5 December 2011
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The European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) warmly welcome today’s announcement from the UK Government of a £75 million commitment from the Department for Business, Innovation…
14 September 2011
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Today marks an important step for ELIXIR, Europe’s emerging research infrastructure for life-science information, as five countries plus the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to catalyse the implementation and construction of ELIXIR. The…
5 July 2011
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Lennart Philipson, who served as EMBL’s second Director General, has passed away. Lennart headed EMBL for over a decade between 1982-93, a crucial time for molecular biology when different scientific disciplines in the life sciences were becoming increasingly interlinked. He reorganised the…
4 March 2011
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In a Memorandum of Understanding signed today, the European Commission (EC) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) formalise their desire to maintain and further develop their cooperation. “I am delighted to sign the renewed and strengthened Memorandum of Understanding between the…
9 February 2011
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The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) welcome news that funding has been earmarked from the UK’s Large Facilities Capital Fund for ELIXIR – the European Life-science…
8 November 2010
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At the Autumn 2010Council meeting of the EIROforum, a partnership of seven European intergovernmental research organisations with large research infrastructures, the Directors General unanimously accepted the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility (European XFEL), based in Hamburg, Germany, to…
16 March 2010
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Today, the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine officially inaugurates the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) in Helsinki. Together with the Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM, University of Oslo) and the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS, Umeå…
9 March 2010
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Today, the German Minister for Education and Research, Annette Schavan, officially opens the new training and conference centre for the life sciences on the campus of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg. “This new centre in Heidelberg will form a central European…
25 August 2009
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BBSRC has awarded funding to the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), based at Hinxton near Cambridge, to permit a dramatic increase in the institute’s data storage and handling capacity. The funding is the first step in developing the existing…
26 June 2009
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On June 26 2009 the joint international Unit for Virus and Host Cell Interactions (Unité Mixte Internationale) was formally established in Grenoble. The unit is run jointly by CNRS, the Grenoble outstation of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the Grenoble University Joseph…
22 June 2009
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Mice are one of biology’s most important model organisms, because 98% of their genes and many of their traits and diseases are similar to ours. Researchers at the Mouse Biology Unit of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) take advantage of these similarities and use mice to study…
12 December 2008
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Microscope designer Leica Microsystems and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) signed a corporate partnership agreement today whereby Leica Microsystems becomes a founder partner of the EMBL Advanced Training Centre scheduled to be completed in September 2009. Besides its financial…
24 November 2008
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The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences, a global leader in life science research, drug discovery and cellular science, today announced that they have entered into a corporate partnership in support of EMBL’s Advanced Training Centre in…
16 October 2008
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Today at a meeting organised by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, scientists from around the globe announced the formation of the International Human Microbiome Consortium (IHMC), an effort that will enable researchers to characterise the relationship of the…
23 July 2008
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The Wellcome Trust has awarded £4.7 million (€5.8 million) to EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) to support the transfer of a large collection of information on the properties and activities of drugs and a large set of drug-like small molecules from the publicly listed…
28 May 2008
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In a contract signed today, the European Commission has awarded €4.5 million to a pan-European consortium to decide upon the best way to unite Europe’s biological data resources into a sustainable, integrative bioinformatics network for the life sciences. The European Life-science…
22 January 2008
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Drawing on the expertise of multi-disciplinary research teams, the map developed by the 1000 Genomes Project will provide a view of biomedically relevant DNA variations at a resolution unmatched by current resources. The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), working with long-term collaborator…
11 December 2007
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ArrayExpress, the publicly available database of transcriptomics data at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), has doubled in size in 2007, reaching the 100,000-hybridisation milestone. The database now holds snapshots of gene expression…
12 November 2007
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Today, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) announces Luxembourg as the new member of its international community. Accepted by EMBL’s council and ratified by the parliament of Luxembourg, the Grand-Duchy has officially joined the institute as the 20th member state. “EMBL is…
23 October 2007
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The European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) officially opens its new East Wing today with a reception for prominent guests. The East Wing will be jointly opened by Ian Pearson, Minister of State for Science and Innovation, UK, and Robert-Jan Smits,…
3 October 2007
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Today the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), the University of Helsinki, Finland, the University of Oslo, Norway, and Umeå University, Sweden, officially launch their new Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine. The agreement will encourage scientific exchange and collaborations…
28 August 2007
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Three papers published by EMBL scientists and their collaborators will make it much easier to share and compare information from large-scale proteomics data. The papers are published in Nature Biotechnology on 8 and 26 August. As the quantity of available biological information and the use of…
11 July 2007
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Today, delegates representing the 19 member states of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) offered Australia associate membership in EMBL’s international community. The membership is planned to start officially in January 2008 and will initially last for seven years. “EMBL…
22 May 2007
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It was the world’s earliest public database of DNA and RNA sequences and remains Europe’s primary nucleotide sequence resource. The database is maintained by EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute in Hinxton (UK) in collaboration with its US and Japanese counterparts GenBank and…
1 February 2007
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The German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) has awarded 8.8 Million Euro to the Hamburg Outstation of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) for the construction of an Integrated Research Facility for Structural Biology at the new PETRA-III storage ring of the German…
22 January 2007
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The European Commission has awarded 3.7 Million Euro under the European Union Framework 6 Programme over the next four years to a new Marie Curie Research Training Network, coordinated by Dr. Andreas Ladurner at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). The long molecules of DNA that carry…
8 January 2007
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From today scientists will be able to access a vast collection of biomedical research and to submit their own published results for inclusion in a new online resource. Based on a model currently used by the US National Institute of Health, UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) will provide free access to a…
14 December 2006
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Today, Janez Potočnik, European Commissioner for Science and Research, received a statement of support for the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers from EIROforum. “The EIROforum partners warmly welcome this valuable initiative by…
11 December 2006
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Today the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) launches its new, faster and easier website with an exhaustive search engine at its centre. The web interface has been streamlined on the basis of user feedback from a recent extensive…
4 December 2006
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The BioModels Database, hosted by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in Cambridge, UK, has entered a formal data-exchange agreement with the Database of Quantitative Chemical Signalling (DOQCS) of the National Centre for…
27 November 2006
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Today the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) launches CiteXplore, a new freely accessible literature resource service. Biological researchers require two crucial sources of information: scientific literature published in peerreviewed…
6 October 2006
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Today, the German Minister for Education and Research, Annette Schavan, breaks ground for the new training and conference centre for the life sciences that will be built on the EMBL campus in Heidelberg. The German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), the Klaus Tschira…
7 September 2006
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Today the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and the Spanish Ministry for Education and Science (MEC) officially launch their new joint EMBL/CRG Research Unit in Systems Biology on the campus of the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park. The Spanish…
9 August 2006
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Today EMBL scientists, EMBL’s commercial affiliate, EMBL Enterprise Management Technology Transfer GmbH (EMBLEM) and EMBL’s venture vehicle, EMBL Ventures GmbH, announce the foundation of Elara Pharmaceuticals GmbH, a start-up company that will translate basic research findings into new…
31 July 2006
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Scientists will be able to access a vast collection of biomedical research at the touch of a button thanks to a major new initiative that aims to promote the free transfer of ideas in a bid to speed up scientific discovery. Based on a model currently used in the United States, UK PubMed Central…
11 July 2006
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In the early days of X-ray crystallography obtaining a three-dimensional model of a protein required wire models, screws, bolts and years of tedious calculations by hand. Today macromolecular models are built by computers – thanks to sophisticated software and in particular a package called…
29 June 2006
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Croatia has officially joined the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) as the organisation’s 19th Member State. The Croatian parliament ratified its membership after EMBL’s council had accepted the country’s application. “Joining EMBL is a very important step…
3 May 2006
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Today the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s (EMBL) European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), the Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics (SIB), the University of Cologne, Germany, and the European Patent Office launch FELICS (Free European Life-science Information and Computational Services).…
25 April 2006
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EMBOSS, the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite, has received a vital funding boost from the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) that will guarantee its continued maintenance under an open source license for the next three years. This ends two years of…
10 April 2006
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Today three research organisations announce the merging of their expertise to fight cardiovascular diseases, which are among the most common health problems and causes of death in the world. The Magdi Yacoub Institute (MYI) at the UK’s Harefield Heart Science Centre, Imperial College London,…
28 March 2006
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Science is moving more rapidly than ever; one groundbreaking discovery chases the next at an incredible speed. School teachers have trouble keeping up with the pace, and many pupils call science classes “boring”. Today, Europe’s major research organisations launch Science in…
10 January 2006
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On Friday, 13 January 2006, the new Carl-Ivar Brändén Building (CIBB) will be inaugurated on the Polygone Scientifique Campus in Grenoble, France. The CIBB will be operated as a collaboration between major international and national partners based in Grenoble and is a further step in the…
6 December 2005
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In the December 6 issue of Nature Biotechnology, scientists from 14 different organizations around the world, including the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, propose a new quality standard for biochemical models. MIRIAM [for Minimum information requested in the annotation of biochemical…
16 November 2005
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Today the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) opens a new highthroughput crystallization facility at its Outstation located on the campus of the German Synchrotron Radiation Facility (DESY) in Hamburg, Germany. The facility, made possible by major funds from the German Ministry for Science…
31 October 2005
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The Commission of the European Union has awarded EUR 9 million over five years for a new Network of Excellence that will make computational systems biology accessible to bench scientists throughout Europe and beyond. ENFIN, which stands for ‘Experimental Network for Functional…
12 September 2005
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The European Commission has selected the EBI to coordinate a project that will stimulate and explore synergies between bioinformatics (the science of storing, retrieving and analysing large amounts of biological information) and medical informatics (the science of processing, sharing and using…
29 August 2005
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The European Bioinformatics Institute and Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) – Ghent University have launched the PRoteomics IDEntifications database (PRIDE). PRIDE allows researchers who work in the field of proteomics – the large-scale study of proteins – to…
29 August 2005
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The executive teams of five major molecular interaction databases announced today the signing of an agreement to share curation efforts and exchange completed records through a mechanism known as the International Molecular Exchange (IMEx) consortium. IMEx will provide a network of stable,…
22 August 2005
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The world’s three leading public repositories for DNA and RNA sequence information have reached 100 gigabases (100,000,000,000 bases; the ‘letters’ of the genetic code) of sequence. Thanks to their data exchange policy, which has paved the way for the global exchange of many types…
18 July 2005
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The first rate research from the Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU) is now set to continue for the long-term. The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the Medical Faculty of University of Heidelberg, who formed the joint venture in 2002, have announced their plans to initiate a…
12 July 2005
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A systematic search through human genes has begun at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany. Working within the MitoCheck consortium that includes 10 other institutes throughout Europe, the EMBL scientists will silence all human genes, one-by-one, to find those…
13 May 2005
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The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) has received a big boost from The Wellcome Trust, the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), who have given funds to expand the EBI site in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK. The new…
1 May 2005
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Dr. Iain Mattaj today took over the leadership of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory [EMBL], a prominent basic research and training institute with laboratories in France, Germany, Italy and the UK. “The pace of progress in the life sciences is remarkable. I see my job as ensuring that…
31 March 2005
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A novel high-tech microscope will be brought to the marketplace, giving laboratories everywhere fascinating new insights into living organisms. EMBLEM Technology Transfer GmbH (EMBLEM), the commercial entity of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), announced today that it has signed a…
28 February 2005
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The International Society for Computational Biology has named two scientists from the European Bioinformatics Institute as the winners of its awards for 2005. Janet Thornton wins the Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award while the Overton Prize goes to Ewan Birney. Thomas Lengauer, the ISCB’s…
1 February 2005
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The Commission of the European Union has awarded 8.3 million Euro to a pan-European task force who will improve access to biological information for scientists throughout and beyond Europe. The EMBRACE Network of Excellence, which encompasses computational biologists from 17 institutes in 11…
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