Welcome: Isabella Graf
Isabella Graf is EMBL’s newest group leader and the first theoretical biophysicist to join the Developmental Biology Unit.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2024
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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 & TECHNOLOGY2024
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Merging passion, collaboration, and serendipity
EMBL alumnus Thibaut Brunet, recipient of the 2024 John Kendrew Young Scientist Award, shares his scientific journey – from a childhood passion for nature to the discovery of a new species of choanoflagellate.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2024
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Minecraft-ing our way into studying cell sorting
A theoretical model involving tiny Minecraft-like cubes can help us understand dynamic biological processes, such as cell sorting in embryos.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2024
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A universal framework for spatial biology
SpatialData is a tool developed by EMBL scientists in cooperation with multiple research institutions to unify and integrate data from different omics technologies in a spatial environment, providing holistic insights into health and disease. Researchers can now freely access and use SpatialData…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2024
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Casting new light on gene regulation in development
New research from EMBL Heidelberg shows how cells in developing embryos undergo a major shift in the way they regulate gene expression as they mature and differentiate.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2024
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We are EMBL: Simone Heber on RNA, bicycling, and Ironman
Simone Heber talks about studying RNA transport, organising the Bike Club at EMBL, and participating in the Ironman World Championship.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2024
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Anne Ephrussi: what I’ve learned
After 32 years at EMBL – leading a developmental biology research group and later simultaneously serving as EMBL’s Dean for its PhD programme, Anne Ephrussi has retired, ready to start her life’s next chapter.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2024
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Unravelling the role of immune cells in early lung development
Researchers reveal that healthy lung development hinges on immune-epithelial crosstalk, with implications for respiratory diseases.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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Why time is of the essence in development
EMBL developmental biologists – with help from other disciplines – pursue the significance of time, timing, and transitions in organisms during their development
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Spotlight: Creating an artificial uterus
EMBL researchers have created an engineered uterus that allows a closer look at a mouse embryo’s development and its interactions with the uterine environment.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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We are EMBL: Valentina Lorenzi on human reproductive development
PhD student Valentina Lorenzi is using single-cell sequencing data to create a map of the developing human reproductive system.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2023
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Welcome: Hanh Vu
Group Leader Hanh Vu studies ‘immortal’ flatworms that can grow and de-grow to understand better factors that determine organisms’ sizes.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2023
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New evolutionary insights from stepping outside the lab
EMBL researchers are stepping outside the lab and thinking outside the box to understand the basic principles that underlie the development and evolution of organismal characteristics.
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Vikas Trivedi from EMBL Barcelona receives ERC Synergy Grant
The group leader, together with three other principal investigators, has been awarded the ERC Synergy Grant, one of the most prestigious public grants in Europe.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2023
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Spotlight: A ‘devil’ of a flatworm
Tasmanian flatworms add to an EMBL researcher’s collection as she studies principles that control animal body size.
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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Welcome Jordi van Gestel
Looking to understand microbial predator-prey relationships, EMBL’s newest group leader tackles a molecular ‘arms race’ in his lab.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2022
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Welcome: Flora Vincent
After a postdoc at Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, Flora Vincent has joined EMBL’s Developmental Biology unit to further explore the world of phytoplankton.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2022
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Does exercise drive development? In the sea anemone, the way you move matters.
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 & TECHNOLOGY2022
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Zooming in to get the full picture
EMBL and UW researchers plus additional collaborators have constructed a complete map of fruit fly embryonic development using machine learning. This research is foundational to better understanding overall embryo development in other species, including humans.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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A 3D culture model to study embryo growth
A recent study by EMBL researchers proposes a new method to grow early embryos in the laboratory. With a 3D culture set-up, scientists can closely monitor the changes embryos undergo around the time of implantation.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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Converging lenses on embryo development
Researchers from the Furlong group at EMBL have come up with a way to observe the development of fruit-fly embryos simultaneously at the genetic and cellular levels, generating a high-resolution and integrated view of how different cell lineages form.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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A cellular atlas of an entire worm
EMBL scientists and colleagues have developed an interactive atlas of the entire marine worm Platynereis dumerilii in its larval stage. The PlatyBrowser resource combines high-resolution gene expression data with volume electron microscopy images.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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The Spatial Mouse Atlas: new insights into cell fate
Researchers have combined spatial gene expression information with single-cell genomics data to create a high-resolution atlas of mouse organogenesis.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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A model of cooperation for transporting mRNA
EMBL scientists generate a high-resolution crystal structure of the Kinesin-1/aTm1 transport complex in the fruit fly.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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New head for EMBL’s Developmental Biology Unit
Dr Alexander Aulehla has been appointed the new Head of EMBL’s Developmental Biology Unit, and will take up the role starting in July 2021.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2021
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EMBL scientists elected as EMBO Members
John Marioni, Alex Bateman, and Takashi Hiiragi have been elected to EMBO Membership.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2021
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Two EMBL scientists become EMBO Members
This year, EMBO elected 63 new members, including Alexander Aulehla, Group Leader and Senior Scientist at EMBL Heidelberg, and Paul Flicek, Associate Director of EMBL-EBI Services, Senior Scientist, Group and Team Leader at EMBL-EBI.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2020
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Welcome: Georgia Rapti
The nervous system has fascinated Georgia Rapti ever since her first introduction to biology. Her research group in the Developmental Biology unit will focus on understanding the early biological events involved in the nervous system’s formation.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2020
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Tissue dynamics provide clues to human disease
EMBL scientists examine the molecular causes of a rare hereditary disease of the spine and ribs
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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Finding your way around Platynereis dumerilii
EMBL researchers combine multiple datasets to develop expandable atlas of an entire animal
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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Transcriptional hubs confer phenotypic robustness
Enhancers in Drosophila embryos gather together to preserve phenotypes under stressful conditions
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2019
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Actin crosslinking plays key role in tissue morphogenesis
New insights into mechanisms behind embryonic development
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2019
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Hydraulic force shapes mammalian embryos
Uncovering new role of fluid pressure in controlling embryo size and cell fate
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2019
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An in silico hope for biology: machine learning
How EMBL scientists are using machine learning to advance biology
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2018
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Welcome: Vikas Trivedi
An engineer’s approach to understanding morphogenesis
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2018
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From blood vessels to blood stem cells
EMBL scientists discover how blood vessel cells become blood stem cells during embryonic development
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2018
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Synchronised waves control embryonic patterning
EMBL scientists show that the rhythm between Wnt and Notch waves enables patterning in embryos.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2018
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Sync to grow
Gene expression wave in the lower part of the future vertebrae column of a mammalian embryo. As the wave goes forward, new pre-vertebrae are formed and the future vertebrae column elongates. (Image and video credit: Nature) In a nutshell: The size of pre-vertebrae in a mammalian embryo is…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2012
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Tracking genes’ remote controls
As an embryo develops, different genes are turned on in different cells, to form muscles, neurons and other bodily parts. Inside each cell’s nucleus, genetic sequences known as enhancers act like remote controls, switching genes on and off. Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2012
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The informant: a jumping gene
Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, have developed a new method for studying gene regulation, by employing a jumping gene as an informant. Published online today in Nature Genetics, the new method is called GROMIT. It enables researchers to…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2011
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