Funding for researchers working on plastic recycling enzymes
Announcements, Science EMBL-EBI’s MGnify data resource helps researchers find enzymes for novel applications.
2022
announcementsscience
Novel enzymes for a Green Economy
Science Using metagenomic data to find novel enzymes for plastic degradation and beyond
2021
science
Kendrew and Philipson Awards Winners 2018
Alumni EMBL recognises the outstanding work of alumni with the John Kendrew and Lennart Philipson Awards
2018
alumni
Pol III enzyme grips DNA and begins reading fast
Science EMBL researchers uncover how a key enzyme that helps cells make new proteins starts its work
2018
science
Futures: Unravelling influenza
Science ERC grantee Stephen Cusack shares his vision for the next ten years
2017
science
Enzymes’ superimposable structures revealed
Science EMBL scientists superimpose structures of two-metal-ion enzymes and reveal new potential drug targets
2017
science
Futures: Phosphatases
Science ERC grantee Maja Köhn shares her vision for the next ten years
2017
science
Enzyme research made easier
Science Enzyme Portal makes it easier to explore all enzyme-related data in EMBL-EBI’s public resources.
2015
science
Two in one
Science In a paper published online today in PNAS, scientists from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Hamburg, Germany, reveal new insights into the workings of enzymes from a group of bacteria including Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis. The new findings…
2011
science
Raising the alarm when DNA goes bad
Science Our genome is constantly under attack from things like UV light and toxins, which can damage or even break DNA strands and ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases. Scientists have known for a long time that when DNA is damaged, a key enzyme sets off a cellular ‘alarm bell’ to alert the…
2009
science
Sugarcoating fruit fly development
Science Proteins are the executive agents that carry out all processes in a cell. Their activity is controlled and modified with the help of small chemical tags that can be dynamically added to and removed from the protein. 25 years after its first discovery, researchers at the European Molecular Biology…
2009
science
New findings reveal how influenza virus hijacks human cells
Science Influenza is and remains a disease to reckon with. Seasonal epidemics around the world kill several hundred thousand people every year. In the light of looming pandemics if bird flu strains develop the ability to infect humans easily, new drugs and vaccines are desperately sought. Researchers at…
2009
science
X chromosome exposed
Science Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in Hinxton, UK, have revealed new insights into how sex chromosomes are regulated. A chromatin modifying enzyme helps compensate for the fact that…
2008
science
New compound effectively treats fungal infections
Science A new mechanism to attack hard-to-treat fungal infections has been revealed by scientists from the biotech company Anacor Pharmaceuticals Inc., California, and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory [EMBL] outstation in Grenoble, France. In the current issue of Science they describe…
2007
science
Researchers shed light on shrinking of chromosomes
Science A human cell contains an enormous 1.8 metres of DNA partitioned into 46 chromosomes. These have to be copied and distributed equally into two daughter cells at every division. Condensation, the shortening of chromosomes, allows the cell to handle such huge amounts of genetic material during cell…
2007
science
A link between our body’s energy levels and a protein that wraps our DNA?
Science Living organisms need to sense the amount of energy that is available to them and regulate the activity of their genes accordingly. Scientists have made the unexpected finding that a histone protein, which wraps DNA into tight bundles and regulates gene activity, can bind a small molecule produced…
2005
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