Welcome: Hanh Vu
Lab Matters Group Leader Hanh Vu studies ‘immortal’ flatworms that can grow and de-grow to understand better factors that determine organisms’ sizes.
2023
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New evolutionary insights from stepping outside the lab
Science 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.
2023
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Vikas Trivedi from EMBL Barcelona receives ERC Synergy Grant
Lab Matters 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.
2023
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Spotlight: A ‘devil’ of a flatworm
Lab Matters, Picture of the week Tasmanian flatworms add to an EMBL researcher’s collection as she studies principles that control animal body size.
2023
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Welcome Jordi van Gestel
Lab Matters Looking to understand microbial predator-prey relationships, EMBL’s newest group leader tackles a molecular ‘arms race’ in his lab.
2022
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Welcome: Flora Vincent
Lab Matters 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.
2022
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Does exercise drive development? In the sea anemone, the way you move matters.
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
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Zooming in to get the full picture
Science 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.
2022
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A 3D culture model to study embryo growth
Science 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.
2022
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Converging lenses on embryo development
Science 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.
2022
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A cellular atlas of an entire worm
Science 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.
2021
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The Spatial Mouse Atlas: new insights into cell fate
Science Researchers have combined spatial gene expression information with single-cell genomics data to create a high-resolution atlas of mouse organogenesis.
2021
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A model of cooperation for transporting mRNA
Science EMBL scientists generate a high-resolution crystal structure of the Kinesin-1/aTm1 transport complex in the fruit fly.
2021
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New head for EMBL’s Developmental Biology Unit
Lab Matters 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.
2021
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EMBL scientists elected as EMBO Members
Lab Matters John Marioni, Alex Bateman, and Takashi Hiiragi have been elected to EMBO Membership.
2021
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Two EMBL scientists become EMBO Members
Lab Matters 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.
2020
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Welcome: Georgia Rapti
Lab Matters 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.
2020
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Tissue dynamics provide clues to human disease
Science EMBL scientists examine the molecular causes of a rare hereditary disease of the spine and ribs
2020
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Finding your way around Platynereis dumerilii
Science EMBL researchers combine multiple datasets to develop expandable atlas of an entire animal
2020
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Transcriptional hubs confer phenotypic robustness
Science Enhancers in Drosophila embryos gather together to preserve phenotypes under stressful conditions
2019
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Actin crosslinking plays key role in tissue morphogenesis
Science New insights into mechanisms behind embryonic development
2019
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Hydraulic force shapes mammalian embryos
Science Uncovering new role of fluid pressure in controlling embryo size and cell fate
2019
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An in silico hope for biology: machine learning
Lab Matters How EMBL scientists are using machine learning to advance biology
2018
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Welcome: Vikas Trivedi
Science An engineer’s approach to understanding morphogenesis
2018
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From blood vessels to blood stem cells
Science EMBL scientists discover how blood vessel cells become blood stem cells during embryonic development
2018
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Synchronised waves control embryonic patterning
Science EMBL scientists show that the rhythm between Wnt and Notch waves enables patterning in embryos.
2018
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Sync to grow
Science 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…
2012
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Tracking genes’ remote controls
Science 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…
2012
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The informant: a jumping gene
Science 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…
2011
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