The new group leader at EMBL Rome will study how embryos can inherit non-genetic information from their parents that causes stable and heritable…
New group leader Nicoletta Petridou explains her fascination with the complexity of early embryo development, and how the interdisciplinary nature of…
While this may seem like a nebula made up of interstellar clouds of dust and ionised gases, this image isn’t of a galaxy beyond the Milky…
Researchers from the Sharpe group at EMBL Barcelona have published a method to track the developmental history of a cell using the gene editing tool…
Researchers from EMBL Heidelberg have created a complete description of early embryo development, accounting for every single cell in the…
Despite missing the characteristic stripes one would expect from a zebra – or a zebrafish – the fractals in this Picture of the Week show a…
How EMBL scientists are using machine learning to advance…
The De Renzis group investigated invagination, the first step of organ development in…
An engineer’s approach to understanding…
Mammalian life begins differently than we…
Migrating cells, it seems, cover their tracks not for fear of being followed, but to keep moving forward. Scientists at the European Molecular…
The process cells use to ‘swallow’ up nutrients, hormones and other signals from their environment – called endocytosis – can play a crucial…
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