Lab Matters The new EMBL Imaging Centre held its first on-site training workshop, introducing undergraduate students to the basics of volume electron microscopy. This marks the first of many opportunities to aid capacity-building in imaging techniques in Europe.
2022
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Science Using cryo-EM and structural biology techniques, EMBL researchers have shown how two proteins of Legionella pneumophila interact. This finding sheds light on a mechanism critical to the infection process and could lead to the development of new drugs to treat pneumonia.
2021
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Science New structural biology research provides fundamental information critical to understanding enzyme mutations connected to rare diseases and cancers.
2021
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Science What can sponges tell us about the evolution of the brain? Sponges have the genes involved in neuronal function in higher animals. But if sponges don’t have brains, what is the role of these? EMBL scientists imaged the sponge digestive chamber to find out.
2021
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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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Lab Matters Giulia Zanetti from the Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology (ISMB) in London explains how the collaboration with the Cryo-Electron Microscopy Service Platform enabled her group to reveal the structure of protein transport complexes.
2021
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Lab Matters The challenges and opportunities when setting up a global archive for bioimages
2021
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Picture of the week It’s almost a year since the coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic, affecting all our lives. While the virus continues its grip on the world, scientists are understanding it better and better, increasing our knowledge about it and opening up new ways to fight it.
2021
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Lab Matters The EMBL Imaging Centre is scheduled to open in 2021 with Timo Zimmermann as Team Leader for advanced light microscopy technology development and service provision.
2021
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Science Researchers have studied SARS-CoV-2 replication in cells and obtained detailed insights into the alterations induced in infected cells. This information is essential to guide the development of urgently needed therapeutic strategies for suppressing viral replication and induced pathology.
2020
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Picture of the week How does your crystal garden grow? EMBL's Electron Microscopy Core Facility was able to capture this garden of blooming crystals as they studied mosquito reproductive cells.
2020
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Lab Matters The Head of the Electron Microscopy Core Facility at EMBL Heidelberg receives Mid-Career Scientific Achievement Award 2020
2020
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Lab Matters The new team leader offering services in electron microscopy discusses his hopes and plans for the forthcoming EMBL Imaging Centre
2020
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Science EMBL electron microscopy specialists collaborate with researchers from Heidelberg University Hospital to understand the changes occurring in cell structures upon SARS-CoV-2 infection.
2020
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Science New insights into mechanisms behind embryonic development
2019
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Science Scientists develop software tools for automated acquisition of electron microscopy data
2019
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Lab Matters Researchers at EMBL Hamburg have released the next generation of their ARP/wARP software
2018
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Events EMBL’s training programme launches its first e-learning courses: introductions to optogenetics and CLEM
2018
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Science EMBL researchers uncover how a key enzyme that helps cells make new proteins starts its work
2018
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Science EMBL researchers solve a decades-long debate on a key process for brain and embryo-development
2018
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Science ERC grantee Stephen Cusack shares his vision for the next ten years
2017
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Alumni How a research technician with a master’s degree contributed to Nobel Prize-winning work
2017
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Science New research shows how pores form in the membrane that surrounds a cell’s nucleus
2017
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Alumni Jacques Dubochet, Nobel laureate and former EMBL group leader, reflects on a key aha moment
2017
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Science Inside the Centre for Structural Systems Biology
2017
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Lab Matters EMBL and the European synchrotron ESRF extend their Joint Structural Biology Group
2017
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Science As a new cryo-EM facility is inaugurated, EMBL’s Michael Hons describes his role in the project
2017
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Science EMBL alumnus recognised for cryo-electron microscopy work
2017
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Events Celebrating 40 years since the first EMBO electron microscopy training course
2017
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Science EMBL scientists add crucial knowledge to understanding of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis
2017
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Science New group leader Wojciech Galej investigates RNA-protein complexes involved in gene expression
2017
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Science Cryo EM reconstruction of RNA Polymerase I reveals details of how molecule binds and transcribes DNA
2016
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Science Commentary in Nature Methods introduces the EMPIAR resource and gives glimpse of future developments
2016
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Science EMPIAR lets researchers take a closer look at the images used to build 3D molecular structures.
2014
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Science Although they are present almost everywhere, on land and sea, a group of related bacteria in the superphylum Planctomycetes-Verrucomicrobia-Chlamydiae, or PVC, have remained in relative obscurity ever since they were first described about a decade ago. Scientists at the European Molecular Biology…
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