8 December 2025
EMBL alumnus and Lennart Philipson Awardee Florent Cipriani reflects on his 30 years at EMBL Grenoble and his multidisciplinary career building technologies that enable new discoveries.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
27 November 2025
Researchers have visualised, in unprecedented detail, how a large RNA molecule assembles itself into a functional machine.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
14 November 2025
After many years abroad, Fabio Petroni has returned to Italy to establish his research group at EMBL Rome. Here, he is leading a project focused on developing AI systems to support life science research.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
27 October 2025
EMBL researchers were awarded a BII foundation grant to support Model-MI – an in vitro model that mimics the maternal-fetal interface.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
8 May 2025
EMBL’s position paper outlines its key recommendations for European Commission’s upcoming ‘Strategy for European Life Sciences’.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS
20 February 2025
Another EMBL-engineered advance to Brillouin microscopy has significantly widened the aperture to provide quick 3D imaging in real time of light-sensitive samples.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
17 December 2024
The Prevedel group at EMBL Heidelberg developed a mobile microscope: miniature in scale, fast in sample imaging, and giant in resolution.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
15 October 2024
Daniele Ancora is an ARISE fellow in the Light Imaging Facility at EMBL Rome. With a background in theoretical physics, he develops algorithms to improve image-based omics technologies. Learn about his interdisciplinary training and his little ‘obsessions’.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
13 December 2023
Victor Armijo, a mechatronics engineer at EMBL Grenoble, talks about his dream job, highlighted in EMBL’s exhibition ‘The World of Molecular Biology’.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2023
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15 May 2023
EMBL Grenoble technology teams provide a sneak peek into their latest collaborative project in structural biology services: the complete automation of an integral step in X-ray crystallography.
EMBLetc
20 March 2023
Together with his team, Gergely Papp pushes the frontiers of technology development in the field of structural biology.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2023
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1 March 2023
Physicists, engineers and robotics experts work together in EMBL Hamburg’s Instrumentation Team to design instruments that support structural biology research. The team has finished a transfer robot that facilitates automated handling of protein crystals with care and precision. This will help…
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2023
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3 November 2022
Researchers and engineers have integrated a CrystalDirect harvester into the fully automated beamline MASSIF-1, a unique combination of structural biology technologies that is now open to external academic users.
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2022
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20 October 2022
The recent construction of the new ID29 beamline in Grenoble is pioneering a new way of doing experiments in time-resolved crystallography and opening up technology transfer possibilities
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2022
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13 April 2021
Florent Cipriani, who recently retired as Head of the Instrumentation Team after a long career at EMBL Grenoble, is one of the pioneers of instrumentation development in this field.
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2021
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26 January 2021
Engineers at EMBL Hamburg installed specially designed mirrors to reflect and focus X-ray beams onto tiny crystals made of proteins or other biological molecules.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2021
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15 June 2020
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory has secured 6.8 million Euros funding from the European Commission to launch a unique training programme. The ARISE Programme will train and develop Europe’s next generation leadership for research infrastructures in the life sciences.
LAB MATTERS
27 May 2020
EMBL and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) restart the activities of the Joint Structural Biology Group in Grenoble to support coronavirus-related projects. A new initiative will allow users to be granted access to the High-Throughput Crystallisation (HTX) lab at EMBL and to a…
CONNECTIONS
13 March 2018
For Vasiliki Karyoti, troubleshooting and problem-solving take on a greater meaning at EMBL
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2018
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29 January 2018
EMBL instrumentation teams adapting tech to run biological experiments on the synchrotron after its upgrade
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2018
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21 April 2016
Florent Cipriani talks about his passion for developing beamline instrumentation
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2016
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1 July 2014
Surprising protein from a flu-like virus is 10 000th ESRF structure
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2014
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