Technology and innovation 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
2023
technology-and-innovation
Science 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
2022
science
Announcements Tapping the potential of computational biology and bioinformatics to understand blood-related diseases.
2022
announcements
Lab Matters 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…
2022
lab-matters
Science 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.
2022
science
Lab Matters 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.
2021
lab-matters
Lab Matters The contribution of EMBL Group Leader and Senior Scientist Wolfgang Huber has been recognised by the International Society for Computational Biology
2021
lab-matters
Science 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.
2020
science
Science 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.
2020
science
Science 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.
2020
science
Science 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…
2020
science
Science 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…
2020
science
Science EMBL researchers have developed a method to observe interactions between transcription factors
2020
science
Science Crick and EMBL PhDs talk science over coffee
2019
science
Science Children's rights stored in synthetic DNA
2019
science
Events On microbiomes, public engagement and not being boring
2019
events
Science Immunotherapy: the role of B cells
2019
science
Science Exploring the cancer genomics labyrinth
2019
science
Science Understanding how ageing works at a molecular level
2019
science
Science How computer processing of human language is harnessed by EMBL scientists
2019
science
Lab Matters PDBe-KB - new data resource for protein structure and function launches
2019
lab-matters
Lab Matters Enhancing the world's bioinformatics infrastructure
2019
lab-matters
Science EMBL-EBI industry case study: Biocatalysts
2018
science
Science New algorithm will enhance understanding of relationship between genotype and environmental factors
2018
science
Lab Matters Building bridges between scientists and software developers
2018
lab-matters
Alumni Translating 2D hospital scans into 3D prints is informing patients and aiding surgeons
2018
alumni
Lab Matters Pharmaceutical company Sanofi strengthens drug targets discovery collaboration Open Targets
2018
lab-matters
Science Complex metabolomics analyses in the cloud
2018
science
Science Acute myloid leukaemia risk could be detected years before diagnosis
2018
science
Science New computational method uses multi-omics analysis for personalised medicine
2018
science
Science EMBL group leader Jan Korbel reflects on his scientific origins and current research
2018
science
Science New EMBL-EBI Group Leader will make sense of bioimaging data
2018
science
Science What does a cell's location tell us?
2018
science
Science EMBL’s new group leader studies how gene expression is controlled
2018
science
Science EMBL scientists unveil how 3D chromatin structure affects RNA splicing
2017
science
Alumni EMBL physicist-turned-biologist alumni win 2017 Kendrew and Phillipson awards
2017
alumni
Science New BioModels infrastructure supports significantly more model formats and offers improved search
2017
science
Science A new group at EMBL-EBI aims to decipher cell signalling networks
2017
science
Science EMBL researchers complete a molecular atlas showing gene expression in all cells in an entire animal
2017
science
Science ERC grantee Eileen Furlong shares her vision for the next ten years
2017
science
Science EMBL researchers develop a computer model to explore the movement of nuclei in a multinuclear cell
2017
science
Alumni EMBL alumnus Angus Lamond is driving forward new ways to explore the proteome
2016
alumni
Alumni 27 former Bork lab members joined Peer for a full-day get-together this summer
2016
alumni
Science “It’s a bit like drawing a picture of an intricate object just by looking at its shadow on the wall."
2016
science
Science Crowd sourcing initiative to predict effects of toxic compounds: results of 2013 DREAM Challenge.
2015
science
Science Jan Korbel and colleagues publish commentary on risks and rewards of genome cloud computing.
2015
science
Lab Matters Academic community clouds take cancer research towards a brighter future.
2015
lab-matters
Science Cooperate or compete? Microbes show us that getting along is the better choice for communities.
2015
science
Science 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…
2008
science
Lab Matters 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…
2005
lab-matters
Lab Matters 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…
2005
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