One of EMBL’s newest group leaders, Olivier Duss, will explore how RNA folds into functional structures and how it works with proteins to control a…
Fluorescent dyes light up a cellular community of neurons and brain immune cells (microglia), which were derived from stem…
The nucleus of this cell fluoresces in bright green thanks to GFP-labelled nucleoporin proteins. EMBL scientists use engineered nucleoporins as 3D…
Not just another pretty fruit fly. This magenta and golden drosophila larva is lit up with a fluorescent molecule to help researchers study heart…
EMBL scientists have created a new, realistic 3D testbed that could help achieve the goal of stopping cancers before they start by studying cancer…
In this composite image, visual artist Mona Kakanj assembled three different biological structures in fly larvae into a flower. The original images…
This image shows mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs), their cell skeletons (green) and nuclei (blue) under a confocal microscope, photographed by…
New group leader at EMBL Heidelberg employs synthetic chemistry to develop novel tools for…
How EMBL’s ‘Microscope in Action’ introduces teenagers to the basics of fluorescence…
The cells in the different parts of this video are always the same (grey), but, like actors using make-up to highlight different facial features,…
The scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, who ‘fathered’ the Digital Embryo have now given it…
‘Useless fish with big eyes’. This is what Medaka, the name of the Japanese killifish in the pictures, means in Japan where it originally…
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