New EMBL research shows where & to what degree a component of cellular machinery known as RNA Pol III is mutated and becomes…
A new paper from the Galej group at EMBL Grenoble describes the structure of key parts of the Integrator complex, involved in gene…
A new lineage of coronavirus was first identified in the UK, but why is it spreading much more rapidly within the…
A note on the coronavirus variant B.1.1.7, which has first been described in the U.K. and has spread to 57 countries. The note summarises…
Freshwater sports can cause waterborne infections, but real-time DNA sequencing could…
Researchers at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and EMBL Hamburg, in collaboration with scientists in Israel and Spain, have…
Understanding why disagreement is good for COVID science. EMBL Deputy Director General Ewan Birney offers tips for sorting through the…
Researchers discovered the dominant species of bacteria in kefir grains cannot endure without other species that help the 'team'…
Despite restrictions, 2020 has been a busy year for the Darwin Tree of Life Project. We take a look at some of this year’s achievements and…
Gene activation requires the cooperative activity of multiple transcription factors. Until now, the mechanism used by these factors to coordinate…
A new paper from EMBL’s Savitski team and Typas group describes their work on E. coli and how it brings a greater understanding of the way genes…
While cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) was first envisioned in 1968, the advances the Mahamid group are bringing to this 3D method for studying…
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