Science EMBL Hamburg scientists have contributed to the development of the Spitrobot, a ground-breaking experimental setup that will simplify creating molecular movies. The Spitrobot automates the sample preparation for time-resolved crystallography, which is used to create 3D snapshots of protein…
2023
science
Lab Matters EMBL Hamburg partners with the Hanseatic Life Science Research Infrastructure Consortium (HALRIC) to enhance life sciences research in Scandinavia and northern Germany. The consortium builds on the HALOS project to foster collaborations between industry, hospitals, and universities, leveraging…
2023
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Lab Matters Eduard Avetisyan leads the EMBL Hamburg IT team. He joined EMBL after transitioning from particle physics research to IT. Besides providing standard IT user support, his team also enables smooth processing and computational analysis of structural biology data. Here, he talks about the joys and…
2023
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Lab Matters Biological X-ray imaging is an emerging technology that uses X-rays to image tissues or even entire organisms. It will play an important role in EMBL Hamburg’s future service portfolio, and will allow studying life on multiple scales. Team Leader Liz Duke discusses her plans to establish X-ray…
2023
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Lab Matters 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…
2023
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Lab Matters EMBL Hamburg’s Sample Preparation and Characterisation (SPC) Facility offers scientists access to almost all available biophysics technologies. The facility’s staff provides advice and support with experiments and data analysis. The facility is conveniently located just next to the EMBL…
2023
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Lab Matters EMBL Rome group leader Jamie Hackett receives EUR 2 million for the ModLogic project, aimed at understanding how chromatin modifications impact gene activity.
2023
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EMBLetc Kirill Kovalev, an EMBL Hamburg researcher, is studying the structure of an ancient bacterial molecule to help scientists control brain cell activity
2022
Lab Matters EMBL joined a kick-off event focusing on the developments related to the upgrade of the PETRA III synchrotron storage ring to PETRA IV at the DESY campus, where EMBL Hamburg is located. PETRA IV could open new possibilities at EMBL Hamburg, contributing to the goals of the EMBL Programme…
2022
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Lab Matters Jan Kosinski, Group Leader at EMBL Hamburg and one of the co-chairs of the Infection Biology theme in EMBL’s new programme, chats about how this theme will support his work and help establish new collaborations.
2022
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Science Scientists have solved several mysteries around the structure and function of a true molecular giant: the human nuclear pore complex. They created the most complete model of the complex thanks to combining the program AlphaFold2 with cryo-electron tomography, integrative modelling, molecular…
2022
science
Lab Matters Students from the Business Academy Aarhus visit EMBL Hamburg annually. Many of them return later as trainees to gain experience as lab technicians. EMBL Hamburg offers great opportunities to learn diverse techniques and work with various equipment. This experience helps them in their future jobs in…
2022
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Science EMBL Hamburg’s Grzegorz Chojnowski from the Wilmanns Group developed software called findMySequence, which identifies proteins’ amino-acid sequences based on electron cryo-microscopy and X-ray crystallography data. It’s useful for identifying unknown proteins in samples from natural sources.
2022
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Science EMBL Hamburg’s Kosinski Group, the Beck Laboratory at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, and colleagues at EMBL Heidelberg recorded the nuclear pore complex contracting in living cells. They visualised the movement with an unprecedented level of detail with help of new software called…
2021
science
Science RNA vaccines, such as the ones for COVID-19, represent a new approach in vaccine technology. Cy Jeffries, faculty staff scientist at EMBL Hamburg, explains the clever technology behind RNA vaccines, and how structural biology contributes to its development. EMBL Hamburg collaborated on several…
2021
science
Lab Matters Each year, EMBL Hamburg’s Svergun Group offers practical EMBO courses and lecture courses on biological small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). The courses provide young scientists an opportunity to gain hands-on experience by measuring their own samples, and by exploring different aspects of SAXS…
2021
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Alumni Ken Holmes, outstanding pioneer of structural biology and founder of EMBL´s Hamburg site, died on 2 November 2021 at the age of 87.
2021
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Science What can sponges tell us about the evolution of the brain? Sponges have the genes involved in neuronal function in higher animals. But if sponges don’t have brains, what is the role of these? EMBL scientists imaged the sponge digestive chamber to find out.
2021
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Science Scientists at EMBL Hamburg determined the molecular structure of Peptide Transporters 1 and 2. The findings will enable developing drugs that more efficiently pass from the gut to target tissues.
2021
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Science EMBL Hamburg’s Sample Preparation and Characterisation (SPC) Facility has released eSPC, an online platform for analysing data from biophysical experiments. The platform enables the scientific community to analyse data from different experiments without the need to travel.
2021
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Science The Graham and Crump groups at the University of Cambridge and the Svergun Group at EMBL Hamburg have discovered a mechanism by which the herpes simplex virus takes control of the molecular machinery of human cells. Their work reveals how a dedicated viral protein hijacks key host proteins, forcing…
2021
science
Science Structural biology provides insights into the diverse functions of fibrous protein in humans, amphibians, and bacteria.
2021
science
Lab Matters The new team leader at EMBL Hamburg talks about her plans to establish biological X-ray imaging and high-throughput tomography.
2021
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Science A collaboration led by EMBL Hamburg’s Svergun Group used small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) at the European XFEL to obtain data on samples containing coronavirus spike proteins and antibodies that bind them.
2021
science
Alumni EMBL alumni Ilaria Piazza and Ken Holmes have been recognised for their outstanding contributions, and will receive their awards as part of the celebrations for EMBL World Alumni Day.
2021
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Science EMBL scientists generate a high-resolution crystal structure of the Kinesin-1/aTm1 transport complex in the fruit fly.
2021
science
Science EMBL’s Melissa Graewert and colleagues are taking a structural biologist’s approach to better understanding nanoplastic particles.
2021
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Science EMBL Hamburg’s Wilmanns and Kosinski groups have determined the detailed structure of a bacterial protein complex critical for tuberculosis infection.
2021
science
Lab Matters EMBL is conducting an Impact Assessment of our experimental services to understand the value these services have for our external user community. If you have accessed EMBL experimental services at one or more of our facilities to support the conduct of your research, we would like to hear from you.
2021
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Lab Matters EMBL Director Matthias Hentze describes the Environmental Research Initiative: a community effort to solve global environmental challenges.
2021
lab-matters
Science EMBL scientists support research on malaria by providing freely available data resources and using innovative experimental approaches. Our Course and Conference Office facilitates the exchange of knowledge in the field by hosting the annual BioMalPar conference.
2021
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Science Researchers at EMBL Hamburg reveal how peg-like proteins clasp and reshape the cell membrane
2021
science
Events A workshop run by EMBL Hamburg explored opportunities for structural biology at the future, upgraded PETRA IV synchrotron.
2021
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Science EMBL Hamburg’s integrated structural biology facility has contributed to the success of a large-scale SARS-CoV-2 study
2021
science
Science Using EMBL Hamburg’s world-class structural biology infrastructure, researchers advance the folding of protein ‘origami’ designed in the lab.
2021
science
Science Scientists have determined the structure of Glycine Transporter 1. The finding could open new avenues for developing therapeutics for psychiatric disorders
2021
science
Picture of the week Scientists at EMBL Hamburg use droplets of protein solution to grow protein crystals. By exposing the crystals to X-rays, they are able to determine the protein’s molecular structure.
2021
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Lab Matters The Sample Preparation and Characterisation (SPC) Facility at EMBL Hamburg is one of the founding members of the Molecular-Scale Biophysics Research Infrastructure (MOSBRI). Within this new European initiative, the SPC Facility will offer services related to membrane proteins, protein complexes,…
2021
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Picture of the week Scientists at EMBL Hamburg use specially designed mirrors to reflect and focus X-ray beams onto tiny crystals made of proteins or other biological molecules.
2021
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Science Researchers at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and EMBL Hamburg, in collaboration with scientists in Israel and Spain, have discovered remarkable molecular properties of an antimicrobial peptide from the skin of the Australian toadlet. The discovery could inspire the development of…
2021
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Lab Matters EMBL’s sites in Grenoble, Hamburg, and Heidelberg form the newest Instruct Centre. The new centre offers users access to a broad range of state-of-the-art facilities.
2021
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Picture of the week Structural biologists want to study proteins at the atomic level. The device shown in this Picture of the Week is essential for this.
2021
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Science Biotechnology company BioNTech and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz conduct collaborative research with EMBL scientists at the beamline P12 in Hamburg
2020
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Picture of the week Hamburg hosts one of EMBL’s six sites. The city is notorious for its windy and rainy weather. Lots of rain also means a high chance of beautiful rainbows!
2020
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Science By screening hundreds of sybodies (synthetic mini-antibodies), scientists have identified one that might stop SARS-CoV-2 from infecting human cells. This work, which holds promise for treating COVID-19, was conducted by EMBL Hamburg and collaborators from the Centre for Structural Systems Biology…
2020
science
Lab Matters New associate group leader at EMBL Hamburg investigates the structure of functional amyloids in bacteria and in human disease
2020
lab-matters
Science A group of scientists led by EMBL Hamburg’s Christian Löw provide insights into the molecular structure of proteins involved in the gliding movements through which the parasites causing malaria and toxoplasmosis invade human cells.
2020
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Science Scientists from the Beck group have studied the 3D structure of nuclear pores in budding yeast. They show how the architecture of the nuclear pore complex differs inside cells compared to its form observed in vitro studies.
2020
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Picture of the week Despite their ghostly appearance, these are very real cell nuclei infected with Influenza A virus – the only influenza virus known to cause pandemics.
2020
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Events The Svergun group at EMBL Hamburg has released the course ‘Solution Scattering from Biological Macromolecules’ in an online format for the first time. The course explores different aspects of small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) for studying the structure of macromolecules.
2020
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Science EMBL researchers are studying COVID-19-related molecules by exposing them to high-brilliance X-ray beams. The Svergun group at EMBL Hamburg is using biological small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) as part of a global effort by scientists to elucidate the structural organisation of SARS-CoV-2…
2020
science
Science The Sample Preparation and Characterisation Facility (SPC) at EMBL Hamburg reopens to support scientists working on Covid-19 research. The SPC Facility is one of the best equipped facilities in Europe is therefore in high demand from external users. Re-opening the facility also allows experts at…
2020
science
Picture of the week EMBL is all about exciting science, through which we aim to achieve a fundamental understanding of biological processes.
2020
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Science Strengthening ties between EMBL and Israel through the Scientific Visitor Programme
2020
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Lab Matters EU funding for iNEXT-Discovery consortium unlocks key technologies for structural biology
2019
lab-matters
Science A new paper describes a unique mechanism of partner selectivity in transcription factors.
2019
science
Science Researchers from Hamburg simplify time-resolved X-ray crystallography
2019
science
Science Eric Karsenti's combined loves of biology and sailing set in motion the Tara Oceans expedition
2019
science
Science EMBL scientists collaborate to develop new protocol for screening membrane protein stability
2019
science
Science Using cryo-EM, scientists have determined the structure of a large protein complex called Elongator.
2019
science
Lab Matters EIPOD4 will prepare researchers for the increasing interdisciplinarity of scientific career paths
2019
lab-matters
Events Tara schooner welcomes on board journalists, policymakers, funders and scientists
2019
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Events EMBL Hamburg and Tara raise awareness of the risks of microplastic pollution and global infection
2019
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Lab Matters Overwhelmed as a biologist getting to grips with computer programming? EMBLers are here to help!
2019
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Events When: Monday 17 June at 10:30Where: The press conference will be held on the Tara schooner at the Sandtorhafen in the Hamburg harbourWhat: A press conference on the new Tara mission on microplastics and Tara’s cooperation with EMBL. A tour of the schooner will be organised with the…
2019
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Events EMBL got together with the global science festival Pint of Science to explain and celebrate science.
2019
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Science Suicide system in tuberculosis bacteria might hold key to treatment
2019
science
Science Scientists develop structural model that could help in the development of drugs with increased absorption rates
2019
science
Lab Matters On January 1 2019, Edith Heard takes up the position of EMBL’s Director General
2019
lab-matters
Science EMBL scientists investigate the structure of a key protein involved in blood clotting
2018
science
Science Speeding up time-resolved X-ray crystallography with EMBL beamline P14
2018
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Lab Matters Researchers at EMBL Hamburg have released the next generation of their ARP/wARP software
2018
lab-matters
Events 17 young scientists experienced hands-on training at EMBL Hamburg.
2018
events
Science X-ray experiments show that scaffolding protein PDZK1 has a L-shaped conformation
2018
science
Lab Matters Discover how EMBLers across all sites share their passion for science
2018
lab-matters
Events EMBL and Pint of Science join forces to entertain and educate
2018
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Science Scientists at EMBL Hamburg determine shapes of intermediate states in dynamic biological systems
2018
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Science The new head of facility at EMBL Hamburg will help users solve protein puzzles
2018
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Science EMBL scientists discover how two guidance cues work together when neurons project axons across the midline
2018
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Lab Matters A look back at some of the most read stories on EMBL’s news website this year
2017
lab-matters
Lab Matters EMBLers across all sites share how their curiosity about the world shapes their everyday life
2017
lab-matters
Events 20,000 visitors get sneak peek at giant particle accelerators at DESY DAY in Hamburg
2017
events
Science Inside the Centre for Structural Systems Biology
2017
science
Science EMBL’s new group leader based in Hamburg aims to create models of infection cycles
2017
science
Science Newly opened European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser celebrates start of user operations
2017
science
Lab Matters On 29 June, at a ceremony in front of 700 guests, the Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB) in Hamburg, was officially opened. At the event on the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) Campus in Hamburg, Helmut Dosch, Chairman of the DESY Board of Directors, presented Head of EMBL Hamburg…
2017
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Science EMBL scientists add crucial knowledge to understanding of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis
2017
science
Alumni EMBL alumna Zehra Sayers key driver of the Middle East’s first synchrotron project
2017
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Events The PEPC course celebrated its 10th anniversary in Hamburg from the 12 – 20 September this year
2016
events
Science How Christian Löw’s failed experiment led to an unexpected scientific journey
2016
science
Lab Matters Rosemary Wilson talks about imposter syndrome and how to handle it
2016
lab-matters
Science Collaborating to take crystallography into a new time dimension
2016
science
Lab Matters Turning the spotlight on the diverse universe of EMBL’s 200-strong postdoc community
2016
lab-matters
Science 'The PDB plays a crucial role in structural biology research and development'
2016
science
Science Detailed structure paves the way for more effective cancer therapies
2016
science
Science How cells eliminate protein deposits that can lead to neurodegenerative disorders
2016
science
Science Establishing a programme of research, development and user services for time-resolved crystallography
2016
science
Science Unexpected results: structure of DAPK enzyme reveals dual-purpose loop
2016
science
Alumni Meet a driving force behind collaborations with the Slovak Republic, alumnus Jozef Ševčik
2016
alumni
Science How an EMBL team is making and sharing tools to explore tuberculosis protein structures
2016
science
Science Protein screens developed at EMBL Hamburg now commercially available
2016
science
Science Hamburg collaborators analyse protein crystals inside the cells that made them.
2016
science
Science Further insights into how viral enzymes degrade the cell walls of Clostridia bacteria.
2016
science
Events With 28 conferences and 57 courses, 2016 will be EMBL’s most eventful year to date.
2015
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Lab Matters Compelling short stories that shine light on the life and work of EMBL staff.
2015
lab-matters
Events A snapshot of the many activities and events that took place in the world of EMBL this Autumn.
2015
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Events Energy, enthusiasm and endurance on tap as thousands attend 12-hour Hamburg Night of Science.
2015
events
Lab Matters Hamburg researchers have a ball creating game to explain transporter protein mechanism.
2015
lab-matters
Lab Matters Introducing the Small Angle Scattering Biological Data Bank, developed at EMBL Hamburg.
2015
lab-matters
Lab Matters EI3POD: flagship interdisciplinary postdoc programme opens its doors to academia and industry.
2015
lab-matters
Events Industrial partners and BioStruct-X facility members gather for Workshop at EMBL Hamburg.
2015
events
Science A puzzling peculiarity resolved by Hamburg’s Sample Preparation and Characterisation facility.
2015
science
Lab Matters EMBL’s new open access policy aims to make EMBL research widely and freely accessible.
2015
lab-matters
Lab Matters Q&A: Which analogy best describes your research?
2015
lab-matters
Science Coin toss inspires CorMap: a new statistical test that sidesteps need for error estimation.
2015
science
Science Hamburg-led tuberculosis study demonstrates the power of collaboration.
2015
science
Science As EMBL Hamburg celebrates 40 years, we explore the past, present and future of crystallography.
2015
science
Alumni Ken Holmes, one of the visionaries behind EMBL and EMBL Hamburg, looks back to where it all began.
2015
alumni
Events EMBL Hamburg celebrates four decades of vision, pioneering research and beamline services.
2014
events
Lab Matters The day EMBL Hamburg predocs and postdocs invited Nobel Prize Winner Ada Yonath to dinner.
2014
lab-matters
Events Life Science Nord event reveals how pharmaceutical companies use synchrotrons for their research.
2014
events
Events Course attendees go hunting (protein) aliens in a quest for optimal SAXS data.
2014
events
Events How to make good quality samples for good quality structural biology experiments.
2014
events
Lab Matters Pathfinding – poetic and practical – was a common theme in blogs from the EMBL network.
2014
lab-matters
Events An interview with keynote speaker Michael Rossmann.
2014
events
Events Research building for interdisciplinary Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB) takes shape.
2014
events
Science How a single molecule can attract and repel growing brain connections
2014
science
Alumni "Thank you, EMBL, for changing my life" – reunion celebrates great science and great scientists
2014
alumni
Science Molecular switch enables viruses to destroy C.diff bacteria – potential alternative to antibiotics
2014
science
Lab Matters As the Lab turns 40, staff and alumni share 40 things that make EMBL, EMBL
2014
lab-matters
Lab Matters As the Lab turns 40, staff and alumni share 40 things that make EMBL, EMBL
2014
lab-matters
Lab Matters Scientists from EMBL's five sites reflect on the opportunities and challenges that might lie ahead
2014
lab-matters
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
Lab Matters At the Autumn 2010Council meeting of the EIROforum, a partnership of seven European intergovernmental research organisations with large research infrastructures, the Directors General unanimously accepted the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility (European XFEL), based in Hamburg, Germany, to…
2010
lab-matters
Science Cells rely on a range of signalling systems to communicate with each other and to control their own internal workings. Scientists from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Hamburg, Germany, have now found a way to hack into a vital communications system, raising the possibility of…
2010
science
Lab Matters The German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) has awarded 8.8 Million Euro to the Hamburg Outstation of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) for the construction of an Integrated Research Facility for Structural Biology at the new PETRA-III storage ring of the German…
2007
lab-matters
Science Imagine grabbing two snakes by the tail so that they can’t wriggle off in opposite directions. Scientists at the Hamburg Outstation of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and collaborators from King’s College in London have now discovered that something similar happens to a…
2006
science
Lab Matters Today the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) opens a new highthroughput crystallization facility at its Outstation located on the campus of the German Synchrotron Radiation Facility (DESY) in Hamburg, Germany. The facility, made possible by major funds from the German Ministry for Science…
2005
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