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By making the world’s microbial DNA easier to explore, LexicMap helps researchers track outbreaks, study antibiotic resistance, and understand microbial diversity.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2025
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Researchers dive into the pre-antibiotic history of bacterial plasmids to understand the spread of treatment-resistant infections worldwide.
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New AI model can estimate the long-term risk of over 1,000 diseases and forecast human health changes over a decade in advance.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2025
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Jess Ewald, Research Group Leader at EMBL-EBI, uses cell profiling and AI to find and characterise chemical hazards to humans and ecosysystems.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2025
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EMBL-EBI’s newest Research Group Leader is investigating how somatic mutations reveal the hidden histories of human cells.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2025
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How a chance encounter resulted in a fruitful cross-Atlantic research collaboration
CONNECTIONS2025
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New tool combines biological knowledge with machine learning to help researchers extract meaningful insights from complex omics data.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2025
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SAVANA is a new tool designed for accurate detection of structural variations in clinical samples.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2025
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New EMBL-EBI project explores the use of a concept developed in aerospace engineering to support rare disease research, diagnosis, and treatment.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2025
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African scientists awarded the 2024 EMBL-UNESCO residencies share their experience in bioinformatics and virology, emphasising the power of connections and knowledge exchange.
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Francesco talks about his work in protein science, fascination for protein design, and how he's finding the EMBL International PhD programme.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2025
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Introducing an open-source large language model (LLM) framework designed for custom biomedical research.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2025
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Study identifies a novel mechanism driving osteosarcoma and provides insights to help predict patient outcomes.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2025
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The most comprehensive map of the developing human thymus sheds light on how immune responses are built and maintained during early life
2024
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Researchers uncover that DNA changes that cause cancer drug resistance can be grouped into four categories, and identify possible new therapeutic targets.
2024
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EMBL-EBI Postdoctoral researcher Iguaracy Pinheiro de Sousa is using bioinformatics to support the development of better organoids.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2024
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Using machine learning to analyse the genetic factors behind early clinical trial termination, researchers find a link between genetic evidence and trial outcome.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2024
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Large-scale study uses data from Danish health registries to predict individual risks of developing cancer
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2024
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New study uncovers the potential of immunotherapy in preventing breast cancer and creates the openly available Human Breast Cell Atlas.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2024
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A new organoid model mimics the behaviour of neuroendocrine tumours (NETs), providing a novel and invaluable tool to study the disease in the lab.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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EMBL researchers have made new strides into understanding and reversing genetic defects that underlie familial heart disease.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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EMBL researchers used data from over 300 human faecal microbiota transplants to gain an ecological understanding of what happens when two gut microbiomes clash.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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EMBL researchers, in collaboration with BD Biosciences, have demonstrated a new technology that allows rapid image-based sorting of cells. The new technology represents a major upgrade to flow cytometry and has applications in diverse life science fields.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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Researchers studying a massive cohort of European patients have found that commonly prescribed drugs for cardiometabolic disorders can have long-term effects on the gut microbiome. Such effects can complicate the understanding of how disease affects the microbiome and must be taken into…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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Scientists at EMBL Heidelberg have investigated stem cells and how they differentiate to become neurons. Their approach included an assessment of the complex interplay of molecules during the differentiation process and generated fundamental new insights into the role of a protein called Sox2 in…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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A study conducted by the Hackett group at EMBL Rome has identified key factors controlling the complex system of gene regulation during early embryo development, shedding new light on the mechanisms behind these events and on their evolutionary implications. Their findings are published in Nature…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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Scientists at EMBL Rome unveil the mechanism behind the most studied epigenetic modification.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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Researchers in the Marcia group at EMBL Grenoble and the De Vivo lab at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa have obtained some of the most detailed ever snapshots of the splicing process in systems known as group II self-splicing introns. The new insights will help scientists to develop…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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Scientists including members of EMBL’s Typas group have investigated how immune cells called macrophages respond to infection by the intracellular pathogen Salmonella enterica. They discovered that Salmonella causes newly produced cathepsins to accumulate in the nuclei of infected cells to…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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Scientists at EMBL Heidelberg have developed a new method, called Targeted Perturb-seq (TAP-seq), which increases the scale and precision of functional genomics CRISPR–Cas9 screens by orders of magnitude. Their method overcomes limitations in previous applications of single-cell RNA sequencing,…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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EMBL researchers investigate the role of a histone protein in regulating gene expression
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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EMBL researchers combine multiple datasets to develop expandable atlas of an entire animal
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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EMBL researchers have developed a method to observe interactions between transcription factors
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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The software diffTF quantifies activity of transcription factors and predicts their mode of action
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2019
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A new paper describes a unique mechanism of partner selectivity in transcription factors.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2019
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A new technique in cryo-EM
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2019
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EMBL researchers have published two new studies involving the nuclear pore complex
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2019
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Enhancers in Drosophila embryos gather together to preserve phenotypes under stressful conditions
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2019
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Using cryo-EM, scientists have determined the structure of a large protein complex called Elongator.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2019
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New insights into mechanisms behind embryonic development
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2019
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Uncovering new role of fluid pressure in controlling embryo size and cell fate
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2019
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Scientists develop software tools for automated acquisition of electron microscopy data
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2019
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Results from the Tara Oceans expedition reveal the Arctic Ocean as a cradle of viral biodiversity
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2019
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Thorough characterisation of structural variants in human genomes
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2019
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Scientists develop technology to measure how ATP concentration affects protein solubility in cells
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2019
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Many microbes traverse the oral-gut barrier
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2019
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EMBL scientists identify RNA regulating protein behaviour in switch of normal roles
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2019
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Scientists develop high-throughput yeast single-cell RNA sequencing method
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2019
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Scientists develop structural model that could help in the development of drugs with increased absorption rates
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2019
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Researchers develop new method to analyse the entire protein-RNA network of the cell
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2018
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Speeding up time-resolved X-ray crystallography with EMBL beamline P14
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2018
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EMBL scientists gain mechanistic insights into how cellular signalling controls gene regulation
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2018
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Retromer’s 3D structure improves understanding of cellular sorting and packaging
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2018
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X-ray experiments show that scaffolding protein PDZK1 has a L-shaped conformation
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2018
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EMBL scientists discover how a component of the cohesin ring binds DNA
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2018
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EMBL researchers visualise the proteins needed to capture molecules and bring them into a cell
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2018
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EMBL scientists reveal NPC architecture of algae
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2018
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EMBL researchers develop method that simplifies the isolation of DNA- and RNA- protein complexes
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2018
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Scientists at EMBL Hamburg determine shapes of intermediate states in dynamic biological systems
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2018
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EMBL scientists uncover large solubility and thermal stability changes of proteins during the cell cycle
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2018
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EMBL scientists count and locate chromosomal proteins during cell duplication
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2018
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New technique offers insight into early cell life
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2018
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EMBL scientists discover how a molecule’s role changes from simple metabolite to instructive signal
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2018
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A look back at some of the most read stories on EMBL’s news website this year
LAB MATTERS2017
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A summary of recent research highlights from EMBL
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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