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Welcome: Matthew Hartley
The challenges and opportunities when setting up a global archive for…
Seeing through a cell
Liang Xue used cryo-electron tomography to capture this detailed image of a Mycoplasma pneumoniae…
At the core of the Integrator complex
A new paper from the Galej group at EMBL Grenoble describes the structure of key parts of the Integrator complex, involved in gene…
Welcome: Timo Zimmermann
The EMBL Imaging Centre is scheduled to open in 2021 with Timo Zimmermann as Team Leader for advanced light microscopy technology development and…
Seeing deeper inside cells
While cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) was first envisioned in 1968, the advances the Mahamid group are bringing to this 3D method for studying…
Welcome: Simone Mattei
The new team leader offering services in electron microscopy discusses his hopes and plans for the forthcoming EMBL Imaging…
Flexible and protected – new findings on SARS-CoV-2 protein shed light on virus’s ability to infect cells
Researchers studied the spike protein on the surface of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. With its spikes, the virus binds to human cells and infects them. The…
Visualising the cell’s molecular machinery in action
A new approach that allows researchers to see molecular machinery at work inside cells has offered a deeper understanding of how bacteria produce…
Understanding chromosome organisation
EMBL scientists and collaborators help reveal the process by which enormous quantities of DNA are folded into…
Investigating the structure and mechanisms of coronavirus biomolecules
While global research on coronaviruses has shed light on the function of many SARS-CoV-2 proteins, the role of some crucial components remains…
Understanding the influenza virus
The infectious disease commonly known as flu is caused by the influenza virus. It spreads around the world in seasonal outbreaks, causing millions of…
Supporting international research on the structure of the coronavirus
EMBL Heidelberg reopens the Cryo-Electron Microscopy Service Platform to support coronavirus structural biology…
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