chemical biology Archives

30 April 2025

Welcome: Noel O’Boyle

EMBL-EBI’s new Chemical Biology Resources Team Leader aims to encourage community engagement and explore AI-driven approaches.

PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES

2025

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24 October 2024 Silhouettes of multicoloured butterflies, mosquitoes, flies, and butterflies against a purple background.

Evaluating the link between chemicals and declining insect populations

Employing a library of more than 1,000 chemicals, EMBL researchers and collaborators investigated how agrochemicals affect insect populations.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

2024

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2 December 2020 Dark purple image with flashes of orange, gold, pink and paler purple that look a bit like lightning with a small sun-like image in the upper right section of the image

Dark purple image with flashes of orange, gold, pink and paler purple that look a bit like lightning with a small sun-like image in the upper right section of the image

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative recognises EMBL scientists

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.

EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS LAB MATTERS

2020

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20 September 2018

Promega joins EMBL’s Corporate Partnership Programme

EMBL and Promega collaborate to train young scientists

CONNECTIONS LAB MATTERS

2018

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8 December 2017 Alasdair McDowall (left), an EMBL research technician 1978-1987, and Jacques Dubochet (right), EMBL group leader 1978-1987, together in Heidelberg

Alasdair McDowall (left), an EMBL research technician 1978-1987, and Jacques Dubochet (right), EMBL group leader 1978-1987, together in Heidelberg

Alasdair McDowall’s slow road to flash freezing

How a research technician with a master’s degree contributed to Nobel Prize-winning work

PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES

2017

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4 October 2017 Jacques Dubochet visiting EMBL in 2015 to receive the inaugural Lennart Philipson Award

Jacques Dubochet awarded Nobel Prize for chemistry

EMBL alumnus recognised for cryo-electron microscopy work

EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS

2017

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29 September 2017 Photo of Andrew Leach, Head of Chemical Biology data services at EMBL-EBI

Welcome, Andrew Leach

Q&A with EMBL-EBI's Head of Chemical Biology data services

PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES

2017

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15 May 2017 In organoid cultures, mouse residual breast cancer cells have elevated lipid metabolism (green). IMAGE: Jechlinger/EMBL

Cell changes drive breast cancer relapse

Hallmarks of residual breat cancer cells suggest new approaches for preventing relapse

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

2017

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3 May 2017

Futures: Phosphatases

ERC grantee Maja Köhn shares her vision for the next ten years

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

2017

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27 April 2017

Illuminating insulin release

EMBL researchers develop an optical method for measuring the release of insulin from single cells

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

2017

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14 February 2017

Lipids in real time

A new technique developed at EMBL reveals the way fats interact with other molecules in cells

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

2017

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19 October 2016 Human tumour sections expressing Herceptin (red), an antibody engineered by MultiBacTAG to recognize breast cancer cells. IMAGE: Christine Koehler/EMBL

Human tumour sections expressing Herceptin (red), an antibody engineered by MultiBacTAG to recognize breast cancer cells. IMAGE: Christine Koehler/EMBL

MultiBacTAG: A protein production platform

New platform useful for studies of protein binding, human tissue and more

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

2016

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20 May 2016 Cell Chemical Biology cover image (cropped) shows an airplane approaching a runway – a metaphor for a new method developed by EMBL scientists.