Members of the EMBL community are working to improve our understanding of the parasites that cause malaria and sleeping…
The brain is the most complex organ in the human body. Yet despite it being the organ that makes us conscious beings – and despite the fact that…
For the first time, EMBL Rome researchers have captured microglia nibbling on brain synapses on…
What do bullies and sex have in common? Based on work by scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Monterotondo, Italy, it…
Like emergency workers rushing to a disaster scene, cells called microglia speed to places where the brain has been injured, to contain the damage by…
An inherited mutation in a gene known as the guardian of the genome is likely the link between exploding chromosomes and some particularly aggressive…
Gardeners know that some trees require regular pruning: some of their branches have to be cut so that others can grow stronger. The same is true of…
Our cerebral cortex, or pallium, is a big part of what makes us human: art, literature and science would not exist had this most fascinating part of…
Fear can make you run, it can make you fight, and it can glue you to the spot. Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in…
The scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, who ‘fathered’ the Digital Embryo have now given it…
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is a condition that unexpectedly and unexplainably takes the lives of seemingly healthy babies aged between a…
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