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.
2022
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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.
2022
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Lab Matters Michael Dorrity, one of EMBL’s newest group leaders, is studying how the environment influences early life stages in zebrafish.
2022
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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.
2021
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Science Discoveries at EMBL will help researchers to interpret one of the most common types of experiments in genomics and medical studies.
2020
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Science EMBL scientists examine the molecular causes of a rare hereditary disease of the spine and ribs
2020
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Science EMBL researchers investigate the role of a histone protein in regulating gene expression
2020
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Science EMBL’s next Director General reflects on the questions that drive her research
2018
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Science EMBL scientists discover how blood vessel cells become blood stem cells during embryonic development
2018
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Science EMBL scientists show how chromatin usage in individual cells reveals developmental trajectories
2018
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Science Network of genes linked to development of diabetes
2018
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Science EMBL scientists show that some promoters can act as enhancers and vice versa
2018
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Science EMBL scientists unveil how 3D chromatin structure affects RNA splicing
2017
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Science New group leader based in Grenoble aims to unveil the mechanisms of RNA editing
2017
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Events James Sharpe, Head of EMBL Barcelona, co-chairs the morphogenetic engineering-themed conference
2017
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Science Meet Justin Crocker, EMBL’s new group leader in gene regulation during evolution and development
2017
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Events Tim Richmond looks back on the work that revealed the high-resolution structure of the nucleosome
2017
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Science EMBL-EBI researchers identify mouse epigenetic clock that could help scientists understand ageing
2017
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Science ERC grantee Eileen Furlong shares her vision for the next ten years
2017
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Science New mechanism revealed
2017
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Science From shared interests at a conference to a surprising discovery
2016
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Science How stem cells resist change
2016
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Science How T-cells are trained on what not to kill
2015
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Science European team identify mechanism for producing piRNAs that silence jumping genes in germline cells.
2015
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Science New Bar-ChIP method makes it easier to search for epigenetic marks in many samples at once
2015
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Science First experimental proof that a key cellular machine forms by uniting pre-assembled modules.
2015
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Science The important thing is forming good biological questions, says new group leader in Genome Biology.
2014
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Events Experts from multiple fields come together to understand how the instructions in genes are read
2014
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Science From vitamin C to safe matches, a sample of notable scientists from our newest prospect member state.
2014
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Science Vasa protein preserves pieces of 'enemy' DNA to help protect the genes of future generations.
2014
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Science Surprising finding: enhancers find their targets long before activation in Drosophila embryos
2014
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Science Scientists determine the structure of auxin response factors: daisy-chains that regulate gene expression
2014
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Science Enabling neighbours: intact genes can cause cancer when placed near "enhancing" regions of DNA
2014
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Science How a DNA stretch influences face formation and contributes to common congenital malformations
2014
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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…
2013
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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…
2012
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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…
2011
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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…
2011
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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.…
2010
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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…
2010
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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…
2006
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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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