4 August 2022
Science
EMBL and UW researchers plus additional collaborators have constructed a complete map of fruit fly embryonic development using machine learning. This research is foundational to better understanding overall embryo development in other species, including humans.
25 February 2022
Science
Researchers from the Furlong group at EMBL have come up with a way to observe the development of fruit-fly embryos simultaneously at the genetic and cellular levels, generating a high-resolution and integrated view of how different cell lineages form.
23 February 2022
Lab Matters
Michael Dorrity, one of EMBL’s newest group leaders, is studying how the environment influences early life stages in zebrafish.
5 February 2021
Science
A new paper from the Galej group at EMBL Grenoble describes the structure of key parts of the Integrator complex, involved in gene expression.
19 August 2020
Science
Discoveries at EMBL will help researchers to interpret one of the most common types of experiments in genomics and medical studies.
3 April 2020
Science
EMBL scientists examine the molecular causes of a rare hereditary disease of the spine and ribs
5 March 2020
Science
EMBL researchers investigate the role of a histone protein in regulating gene expression
28 May 2018
Science
EMBL’s next Director General reflects on the questions that drive her research
20 March 2018
Science
EMBL scientists discover how blood vessel cells become blood stem cells during embryonic development
14 March 2018
Science
EMBL scientists show how chromatin usage in individual cells reveals developmental trajectories
12 February 2018
Science
Network of genes linked to development of diabetes
30 January 2018
Science
EMBL scientists show that some promoters can act as enhancers and vice versa
28 December 2017
Science
EMBL scientists unveil how 3D chromatin structure affects RNA splicing
4 December 2017
Science
New group leader based in Grenoble aims to unveil the mechanisms of RNA editing
30 November 2017
Events
James Sharpe, Head of EMBL Barcelona, co-chairs the morphogenetic engineering-themed conference
11 August 2017
Science
Meet Justin Crocker, EMBL’s new group leader in gene regulation during evolution and development
29 June 2017
Events
Tim Richmond looks back on the work that revealed the high-resolution structure of the nucleosome
13 April 2017
Science
EMBL-EBI researchers identify mouse epigenetic clock that could help scientists understand ageing
13 March 2017
Science
ERC grantee Eileen Furlong shares her vision for the next ten years
12 January 2017
Science
New mechanism revealed
17 May 2016
Science
From shared interests at a conference to a surprising discovery
16 February 2016
Science
How stem cells resist change
3 August 2015
Science
How T-cells are trained on what not to kill
9 July 2015
Science
European team identify mechanism for producing piRNAs that silence jumping genes in germline cells.
28 January 2015
Science
New Bar-ChIP method makes it easier to search for epigenetic marks in many samples at once
27 January 2015
Science
First experimental proof that a key cellular machine forms by uniting pre-assembled modules.
18 November 2014
Science
The important thing is forming good biological questions, says new group leader in Genome Biology.
14 October 2014
Events
Experts from multiple fields come together to understand how the instructions in genes are read
10 October 2014
Science
From vitamin C to safe matches, a sample of notable scientists from our newest prospect member state.
20 August 2014
Science
Vasa protein preserves pieces of 'enemy' DNA to help protect the genes of future generations.
2 July 2014
Science
Surprising finding: enhancers find their targets long before activation in Drosophila embryos
25 June 2014
Science
Scientists determine the structure of auxin response factors: daisy-chains that regulate gene expression
25 June 2014
Science
Enabling neighbours: intact genes can cause cancer when placed near "enhancing" regions of DNA
25 May 2014
Science
How a DNA stretch influences face formation and contributes to common congenital malformations
28 February 2013
Science
During embryo development, genes are dynamically, and very precisely, switched on and off to confer different properties to different cells and build a well-proportioned and healthy animal. Fgf8 is one of the key genes in this process, controlling in particular the growth of the limbs and…
8 January 2012
Science
As an embryo develops, different genes are turned on in different cells, to form muscles, neurons and other bodily parts. Inside each cell’s nucleus, genetic sequences known as enhancers act like remote controls, switching genes on and off. Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory…
20 March 2011
Science
Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, have developed a new method for studying gene regulation, by employing a jumping gene as an informant. Published online today in Nature Genetics, the new method is called GROMIT. It enables researchers to…
3 February 2011
Science
In our not-so-distant evolutionary past, stress often meant imminent danger, and the risk of blood loss, so part of our body’s stress response is to stock-pile blood-clotting factors. Scientists in the Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU), a collaboration between the European Molecular…
24 June 2010
Science
Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, and the Max-Planck Institute of Immunobiology Freiburg have identified a novel protein complex that regulates around 4000 genes in the fruit fly Drosophila and likely plays an important role in mammals, too.…
18 March 2010
Science
Once the human genome was sequenced in 2001, the hunt was on for the genes that make each of us unique. But scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, and Yale and Stanford Universities in the USA, have found that we differ from each other mainly because…
16 March 2006
Science
Recent research at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) reveals new insights into how cells achieve equality between the sexes. A new link discovered between the membrane surrounding the nucleus and the male X-chromosome in fruit flies may play a crucial role in determining how active…
19 June 2005
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…
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