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Party at the nucleus?
The nucleus of this cell fluoresces in bright green thanks to GFP-labelled nucleoporin proteins. EMBL scientists use engineered nucleoporins as 3D…
Ecological lawn mowers
In 2012, EMBL used ecological lawn mowers to keep the grass short around the Advanced Training Centre at EMBL…
Crazy arms
Sea anemones are amazing creatures. Despite their plant-like appearance and their tendency to remain fixed in one spot, they are actually…
Time heals all wounds
We’ve all had wounds at certain times in our lives. But they heal due to the self-repairing mechanisms in the…
Colourful test tubes
To study the effect of commonly used drugs on bacterial envelopes, EMBL scientists applied a biochemical assay using a colour reaction. The deeper…
A bloom of crystals
How does your crystal garden grow? EMBL's Electron Microscopy Core Facility was able to capture this garden of blooming crystals as they studied…
Fruit fly with a heart of gold
Not just another pretty fruit fly. This magenta and golden drosophila larva is lit up with a fluorescent molecule to help researchers study heart…
Not a galaxy far, far away
While this may seem like a nebula made up of interstellar clouds of dust and ionised gases, this image isn’t of a galaxy beyond the Milky…
A luminous larval love light
Those heart-shaped cells aren't just for show. They help tell the story of two proteins working…
Breathing beneath the skin
Beautiful flashes of blue colour help light the way for researchers to study cells in fruit fly larva that provide oxygen to…
Three little ghosts
Despite their ghostly appearance, these are very real cell nuclei infected with Influenza A virus – the only influenza virus known to cause…
The eye of science
This image is a composite of lateral pentascolopidial organs, a wing imaginal disc pouch, and an epithelial wound in a Drosophila larva. The organs…
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