10 October 2025
EMBL scientists have developed a more sensitive single-cell sequencing tool that links genomic variants and RNA in the same cell, helping to better uncover links to complex diseases.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
10 March 2025
EMBL Barcelona researchers developed a computational method that reconstructs embryonic development.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
14 May 2024
Toby Gibson reflects on 38 years at EMBL, the scientific tools he built along the way, and the state of science today.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
12 March 2024
Team Leader Sameer Velankar on why accessible training is key for AlphaFold and AI tools more generally.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2024
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5 February 2024
Jacqueline shares her experience of EMBL's international PhD programme.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2024
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31 October 2023
As science increasingly relies on big data and AI tools, the carbon footprint of computational work is on the rise
26 May 2023
The PLAST-CELL project aims to understanding cancer progression by quantifying a cancer cell’s ability to respond to environmental stress that threatens its survival
CONNECTIONS
2023
connectionstechnology-and-innovation
16 September 2022
The latest research from EMBL’s Ikmi group employs interdisciplinary approaches to show how sea anemone ‘exercise’ changes their developing size and shape, uncovering an intimate relationship between behaviour and body development
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2022
sciencescience-technology
20 March 2022
Judith Zaugg, Group Leader at EMBL Heidelberg, has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant of €2 million funded under the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme. Over the next five years, the grant will enable her group to study cellular interactions in the human bone…
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS
2022
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1 February 2022
EMBL Hamburg’s Grzegorz Chojnowski from the Wilmanns Group developed software called findMySequence, which identifies proteins’ amino-acid sequences based on electron cryo-microscopy and X-ray crystallography data. It’s useful for identifying unknown proteins in samples from natural sources.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2022
sciencescience-technology
25 November 2021
Maria Zimmermann-Kogadeeva is one of EMBL’s newest group leaders and a computational biologist whose research group applies computational modelling to better understand the metabolism of gut bacteria and their potential to have far-reaching impacts on other organs.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2021
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9 March 2021
The contribution of EMBL Group Leader and Senior Scientist Wolfgang Huber has been recognised by the International Society for Computational Biology
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS
2021
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7 December 2020
While cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) was first envisioned in 1968, the advances the Mahamid group are bringing to this 3D method for studying molecules directly inside cells are new, and are likely to greatly expand its use.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2020
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7 September 2020
The Gerstung Group at EMBL-EBI and collaborators have developed a statistical model that analyses genomic data to predict whether a patient has a high or low risk of developing oesophageal cancer.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2020
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27 July 2020
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm that uses computer vision to analyse tissue samples from cancer patients. The algorithm can distinguish between healthy and cancerous tissues, and can also identify patterns DNA and RNA changes in tumours.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2020
sciencescience-technology
9 June 2020
Researchers in the Marcia group at EMBL Grenoble and the De Vivo lab at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa have obtained some of the most detailed ever snapshots of the splicing process in systems known as group II self-splicing introns. The new insights will help scientists to develop…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2020
sciencescience-technology
22 May 2020
Researchers in EMBL’s Zaugg group have studied the causes of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a rare disease that causes high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs. The study, carried out in collaboration with Stanford University School of Medicine, compared lung cells of patients…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2020
sciencescience-technology
24 January 2020
EMBL researchers have developed a method to observe interactions between transcription factors
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2020
sciencescience-technology
22 November 2019
Crick and EMBL PhDs talk science over coffee
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2019
people-perspectivesscience
12 November 2019
Children's rights stored in synthetic DNA
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS
2019
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8 November 2019
On microbiomes, public engagement and not being boring
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2019
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12 September 2019
Immunotherapy: the role of B cells
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2019
sciencescience-technology
28 August 2019
Exploring the cancer genomics labyrinth
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2019
people-perspectivesscience
15 August 2019
Understanding how ageing works at a molecular level
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2019
sciencescience-technology
10 July 2019
How computer processing of human language is harnessed by EMBL scientists
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2019
sciencescience-technology
21 March 2019
PDBe-KB - new data resource for protein structure and function launches
LAB MATTERS
31 January 2019
Enhancing the world's bioinformatics infrastructure
LAB MATTERS
3 December 2018
EMBL-EBI industry case study: Biocatalysts
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2018
sciencescience-technology
26 November 2018
New algorithm will enhance understanding of relationship between genotype and environmental factors
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2018
sciencescience-technology
26 November 2018
Building bridges between scientists and software developers
LAB MATTERS
9 November 2018
Translating 2D hospital scans into 3D prints is informing patients and aiding surgeons
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2018
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30 October 2018
Pharmaceutical company Sanofi strengthens drug targets discovery collaboration Open Targets
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS
2018
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30 August 2018
Complex metabolomics analyses in the cloud
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2018
sciencescience-technology
10 July 2018
Acute myloid leukaemia risk could be detected years before diagnosis
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2018
sciencescience-technology
20 June 2018
New computational method uses multi-omics analysis for personalised medicine
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2018
sciencescience-technology
23 May 2018
EMBL group leader Jan Korbel reflects on his scientific origins and current research
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2018
sciencescience-technology
28 March 2018
New EMBL-EBI Group Leader will make sense of bioimaging data
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2018
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22 March 2018
What does a cell's location tell us?
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2018
sciencescience-technology
9 February 2018
EMBL’s new group leader studies how gene expression is controlled
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2018
people-perspectivesscience
28 December 2017
EMBL scientists unveil how 3D chromatin structure affects RNA splicing
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2017
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14 December 2017
EMBL physicist-turned-biologist alumni win 2017 Kendrew and Phillipson awards
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2017
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1 December 2017
New BioModels infrastructure supports significantly more model formats and offers improved search
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2017
sciencescience-technology
9 August 2017
A new group at EMBL-EBI aims to decipher cell signalling networks
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2017
people-perspectivesscience
9 June 2017
EMBL researchers complete a molecular atlas showing gene expression in all cells in an entire animal
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2017
sciencescience-technology
13 March 2017
ERC grantee Eileen Furlong shares her vision for the next ten years
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2017
sciencescience-technology
6 March 2017
EMBL researchers develop a computer model to explore the movement of nuclei in a multinuclear cell
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2017
sciencescience-technology
21 September 2016
EMBL alumnus Angus Lamond is driving forward new ways to explore the proteome
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2016
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24 June 2016
27 former Bork lab members joined Peer for a full-day get-together this summer
LAB MATTERS
25 February 2016
“It’s a bit like drawing a picture of an intricate object just by looking at its shadow on the wall."
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2016
sciencescience-technology
10 August 2015
Crowd sourcing initiative to predict effects of toxic compounds: results of 2013 DREAM Challenge.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2015
sciencescience-technology
9 July 2015
Jan Korbel and colleagues publish commentary on risks and rewards of genome cloud computing.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2015
sciencescience-technology
3 July 2015
Academic community clouds take cancer research towards a brighter future.
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2015
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5 May 2015
Cooperate or compete? Microbes show us that getting along is the better choice for communities.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2015
sciencescience-technology
20 June 2008
What makes a human different from a chimp? Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) have come one important step closer to answering such evolutionary questions correctly. In the current issue of Science they uncover…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2008
sciencescience-technology
31 October 2005
The Commission of the European Union has awarded EUR 9 million over five years for a new Network of Excellence that will make computational systems biology accessible to bench scientists throughout Europe and beyond. ENFIN, which stands for ‘Experimental Network for Functional…
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2005
lab-mattersscience-technology
28 February 2005
The International Society for Computational Biology has named two scientists from the European Bioinformatics Institute as the winners of its awards for 2005. Janet Thornton wins the Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award while the Overton Prize goes to Ewan Birney. Thomas Lengauer, the ISCB’s…
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS
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