Sharpe Group Archives

15 September 2025

Spotting stealth multiplets for better single-cell experiment design

Researchers at EMBL Barcelona have quantitatively evaluated the risk of undetected artefacts in single-cell RNA sequencing experiments.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

2025

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8 August 2025 A gorilla looking over its shoulder, with an inset of a microscopic view of a induced pluripotent stem cells colony of the same animal.

A gorilla looking over its shoulder, with an inset of a microscopic view of a induced pluripotent stem cells colony of the same animal.

A new boost for CryoZoo, Barcelona’s animal cell biobank

The Barcelona CryoZoo has received a grant from the international organisation Revive & Restore to advance research on stem cell reprogramming in wild animal species.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

2025

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10 March 2025

How video games inspired a new way to visualise limb development

EMBL Barcelona researchers developed a computational method that reconstructs embryonic development.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

2025

science-technology

15 March 2023 Image of a group of people behind a large, black table with two cakes on it to celebrate EMBL Barcelona’s fifth anniversary

EMBL Barcelona: Five years down the road

EMBL’s site by the sea completed its fifth year of operations. We look back at some key milestones and achievements since 2017.

LAB MATTERS

2023

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6 October 2022 Photo representing Luis Serrano, Director of CRG, Ben Lehner, Coordinator of the Systems Biology programme at the CRG, Edith Heard, Director General of EMBL and James Sharpe, Head of EMBL Barcelona.

Photo representing Luis Serrano, Director of CRG, Ben Lehner, Coordinator of the Systems Biology programme at the CRG, Edith Heard, Director General of EMBL and James Sharpe, Head of EMBL Barcelona.

EMBL Barcelona and CRG kickstart new era of digital biology in Barcelona

The institutes have launched a joint new initiative which aims to make biology as engineerable as an aeroplane or a bridge.

CONNECTIONS LAB MATTERS

2022

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1 September 2022 4D reconstruction of a mouse limb with lateral and top view.

Building the ideal limb

EMBL researchers use a “fearless” computer reconstruction and a two-centuries-old mathematical approach to study limb bud growth.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

2022

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13 June 2019 Photo of James Sharpe

James Sharpe elected EMBO Member

The head of EMBL’s Barcelona site joins a prestigious group of more than 1800 scientists worldwide

LAB MATTERS PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES

2019

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19 December 2018 The robots used during the experiments. The shape of this particular swarm is a hand-made illustration of the technique. PHOTO: reprinted with permission from AAAS