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22 September 2021 Logos of EMBL and Helmholtz Association on white background, over a green-and-blue pattern in the background.

EMBL and Helmholtz Health join forces

ConnectionsLab Matters EMBL and Helmholtz Association have signed a memorandum of understanding. The expanded collaboration of both institutions will focus on research related to health.

2021

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4 February 2020 Mouse genetic data identifies rare disease genes

Pinpointing rare disease mutations

Science & Technology New resource that categorises genes essential for supporting life could be used to identify rare disease mutations

2020

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21 January 2020 Janet Thornton EMBL Insight Lecture

Ageing and disease

Science & Technology Dame Janet Thornton presents the 2019 EMBL Insight Lecture: Ageing and disease – what is the link?

2020

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20 December 2017 In this representation of influenza polymerase, a molecule (white) that strongly inhibits the enzyme’s activity is shown bound to the region of the enzyme (red) that usually binds the cap section of mRNA. IMAGE: EMBL/Cusack Group

Futures: Unravelling influenza

Science & Technology ERC grantee Stephen Cusack shares his vision for the next ten years

2017

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21 September 2017

Fish on fire

Science & Technology New study by Paola Kuri and Maria Leptin shows how inflammation happens in zebrafish in real time

2017

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1 August 2017 EMBL-EBI group leader Zamin Iqbal

Welcome: Zamin Iqbal

People & Perspectives The Iqbal research group hopes to build a 'Google of bacteria' to help better interpret the genome

2017

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21 December 2016

How flu steals your RNA

Science & Technology Understanding how the flu virus steals host RNA offers hope of new drugs

2016

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27 October 2016

Welcome to EMBL: Robert Prevedel

People & Perspectives Robert Prevedel develops deep-tissue microscopy for scientists to peer deep inside living organisms

2016

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26 September 2016

Turning up the heat on drug side effects

Science & Technology Side-effects of leukaemia drug explained, reveal possibility of repurposing to treat other diseases

2016

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7 April 2016

Welcome: Hiroki Asari

People & Perspectives Why does a cookie look different depending on how hungry you are? Neuroscientist Asari wants to find out

2016

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31 March 2016 The insights should improve therapies where T-cells (green and red) are modified to attack cancer cells (blue, center). IMAGE: NICHD/J. Lippincott-Schwartz

Designing gene therapy

Science & Technology Information on structure of molecule used for genome engineering yields increased efficiency

2016

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11 February 2016 The 3D structure shows how two transcription factors influence one another’s binding to a specific stretch of DNA – an interaction that is crucial for a heart to develop healthily. IMAGE: EMBL/C.Müller

True Love

Science & Technology How transcription factors interact to create a heart

2016

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18 January 2016 A peroxisome containing protein crystals is hit by a free-electron laser. IMAGE: EMBL/CFEL, Thomas Seine

The cellular crystal factory

Science & Technology Hamburg collaborators analyse protein crystals inside the cells that made them.

2016

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15 January 2016 Full length CTP1L protein (green) in complex with truncated C-terminal domain (violet). IMAGE: Rob Meijers

One gene, two proteins, one complex

Science & Technology Further insights into how viral enzymes degrade the cell walls of Clostridia bacteria.

2016

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2 December 2015 Gut bacteria are more affected by metformin than by the type-2 diabetes it is prescribed to treat. IMAGE: Courtesy of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (BY-NC-SA)

Drugging bacteria

Science & Technology Commonly used diabetes drug metformin impacts gut bacteria more than disease itself

2015

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25 November 2015 IMAGE: EMBL-EBI/Spencer Phillips

What makes us human? Or not…

Science & Technology From jumping genes to organ transplants, the non-human features that make us human.

2015

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24 November 2015

Awards & Honours

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL scientists regularly receive prestigious awards – meet the latest honourees.

2015

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15 October 2015 MinION™ USB-attached miniature sensing device.

Mini DNA sequencer tests true

Science & Technology Evaluation of MinION™ sequencer finds performance and reliability consistently good.

2015

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10 September 2015 New method to study biological signalling networks

Clearing a path for cancer research

Science & Technology New computational method to study biological signalling networks in healthy and cancer cells.

2015

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3 September 2015 Moritz Gerstung

Welcome: Moritz Gerstung

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives New group explores why patients with same cancer exhibit unique constellations of genetic mutations.

2015

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24 August 2015

Awards & Honours

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL scientists regularly receive prestigious awards – meet the latest honourees.

2015

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24 August 2015 Healthy Tasmanian devil in its natural habitat.

Branches: Sympathy for the devil

Lab Matters A contagious cancer threatens the Tasmanian devil – extract from Science in School journal.

2015

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12 August 2015 Organiser Lars Steinmetz invites young researchers to the conference. PHOTO: EMBL Photolab/Claudiu Grozea

Make it personal

Connections Leading scientists will gather in Heidelberg this November to discuss the potential of personalised health.

2015

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4 August 2015 Healthy bone marrow (left) vs. bone marrow of leukaemia patient (right). IMAGE: MEDIZINISCHEN HOCHSCHULE HANNOVER

From patients to the lab (and back)

Science & Technology Multidisciplinary research provides clues to new treatments for deadly form of leukaemia in children

2015

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16 July 2015

Iron regulators join war on pathogens

Science & Technology Iron regulatory proteins play important role in combatting infection, protecting against Salmonella.

2015

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20 February 2015 Scanning electron micrograph of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, which cause TB.

Attack from all sides

Science & Technology Hamburg-led tuberculosis study demonstrates the power of collaboration.

2015

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6 February 2015 A new way mice keep iron (purple) out of reach of pathogens. IMAGE FROM GUIDA et al. BLOOD 2015

The battle for iron

Science & Technology New way mice starve pathogens raises alternative approach to treatments for anaemia of chronic disease

2015

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4 February 2015 The new method helps identify which mutations to a gene actually cause a disease. IMAGE FROM THORMAEHLEN ET AL.

Beyond sequencing

Science & Technology New microscopy-based method goes beyond gene sequencing, pinpointing the cause of disease.

2015

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18 December 2014

How to fix a cellular powerhouse

Science & Technology Compound that can restore the function of poorly working mitochondria, with therapeutic potential.

2014

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19 November 2014

20 years in the making

Science & Technology First complete picture of flu virus polymerase. A story of two decades of blood, sweat and sneezes.

2014

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3 November 2014 An unprecedentedly detailed look at immature HIV revealed a surprise. IMAGE: EMBL/F.SCHUR

Same pieces, different picture

Science & Technology Unprecedented detail on HIV structure continues virus’ string of surprises.

2014

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31 October 2014 DDMoRe

Computational modelling resource

Science & Technology New, open repository helps researchers share computational models of disease.

2014

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27 October 2014 The pollen trap used by Arkadiusz to collect pollen. PHOTO: ARKADIUSZ JANKIEWICZ

Looking for the beauty in science

Lab Matters How the author of a prize-winning project on bee travel ended up at a stem cells and cancer conference

2014

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22 October 2014

Protecting us from our cells

Science & Technology Growth factor IGF-1 boosts natural defence against type-1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis

2014

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17 October 2014 Sarah Teichmann. PHOTO: UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

Awards & Honours

Lab Matters EMBL scientists regularly receive prestigious awards - meet the latest honourees

2014

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12 September 2014 Major advance in stem-cell technology

Major advance in stem cell technology

Science & Technology Researchers produce pristine stem cells, which can be precisely changed into clinically relevant cell types.

2014

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6 August 2014

Unpacking iron overload

Science & Technology A rare form of an iron overload disorder kills pancreatic function, Heidelberg scientists find

2014

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1 July 2014

The future’s bright

Science & Technology Surprising protein from a flu-like virus is 10 000th ESRF structure

2014

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25 June 2014

On target

ConnectionsLab Matters A new EMBL-EBI biomedical initiative works to determine the best target proteins for new drugs.

2014

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25 May 2014

Insights into genetics of cleft lip

Science & Technology How a DNA stretch influences face formation and contributes to common congenital malformations

2014

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9 May 2014

How immune cells use steroids

Science & Technology Genome Campus researchers discover that some immune cells turn themselves off by producing a steroid.

2014

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24 April 2014

Tsetse fly genome sequenced

Science & Technology Tsetse fly genome sequenced; scientists hope to find new ways to control sleeping sickness.

2014

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29 May 2006

New potential drug target in tuberculosis

Science & Technology Tuberculosis remains one of the deadliest threats to public health. Every year two million people die of the disease, which is caused by the microorganism Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Roughly one third of the world’s population is infected and more and more bacterial strains have developed…

2006

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