15 July 2022
Lab Matters
The GEEF facility at EMBL Rome supports scientists worldwide with scientific expertise and state-of-the-art gene editing technologies.
24 January 2022
Lab Matters
The new EMBL Imaging Centre held its first on-site training workshop, introducing undergraduate students to the basics of volume electron microscopy. This marks the first of many opportunities to aid capacity-building in imaging techniques in Europe.
3 December 2021
Lab Matters
The new EMBL Imaging Centre has announced its first open user call, and new project evaluation process and training opportunities.
10 November 2021
Lab Matters
Independent impact review finds EMBL experimental services are ‘critical’ for research and endorses EMBL as a world-class service provider for academia and industry.
22 October 2021
Lab Matters
A technology around since the ‘60s, flow cytometry has increasing applications. New leadership at EMBL’s flow cytometry facilities is looking to ease use, expand training, and encourage more collaboration.
23 September 2021
Science
Some of the most amazing creatures live in the deep blue sea. The Mesoscopic Imaging Facility (MIF) at EMBL Barcelona was recently involved in studying one unique feature of the octopus: the ephemeral structures on the surface of their skin called Kölliker’s organs.
8 September 2021
Science
A new collaborative study led by EMBL group leaders Kiran Patil, Nassos Typas, and Peer Bork has found that common medications accumulate in human gut bacteria. This process reduces drug effectiveness and affects the metabolism of common gut microbes, thereby altering the gut microbiome.
7 September 2021
Science
In the Mesoscopic Imaging Facility (MIF) at EMBL Barcelona, researchers study the details of biological systems in the context of organs, body parts, or entire organisms. This image shows OPTiSPIM1, one of the custom light-sheet microscope setups available at the facility.
10 August 2021
Lab Matters
MASSIF-1, run jointly by EMBL Grenoble and the ESRF, is a beamline for macromolecular crystallography. It is used by the research community to study the 3D structure of proteins, which is important for drug development.
8 June 2021
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.
8 June 2021
Picture of the week
At EMBL, we have many dream teams – groups of individuals who support each other, innovate, and work together. One of those dream teams bridges two core facilities at EMBL Rome.
3 June 2021
Science
Under the innovative Planetary Biology research theme, EMBL scientists aim to understand life in the context of its environment.
12 May 2021
Events
A workshop run by EMBL Hamburg explored opportunities for structural biology at the future, upgraded PETRA IV synchrotron.
6 April 2021
Science
Scientists have determined the structure of Glycine Transporter 1. The finding could open new avenues for developing therapeutics for psychiatric disorders
22 February 2021
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,…
28 April 2020
Science
Scientists at EMBL Hamburg and Karolinska Institutet Stockholm aim to find synthetic antibodies – known as nanobodies – that bind a surface protein of the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Nanobodies could prevent the virus from entering human cells and causing COVID-19.
17 April 2020
Science
EMBL Heidelberg reopens the Cryo-Electron Microscopy Service Platform to support coronavirus structural biology research.
31 January 2019
Lab Matters
Enhancing the world's bioinformatics infrastructure
17 July 2018
Science
Europe PMC adds preprints to its search
23 February 2018
Science
Access to state-of-the-art microscopes and outstanding expertise
20 December 2017
Science
What are the strangest genomes in EMBL-EBI's Ensembl?
6 December 2017
Science
High resolution 3D protein structures in a giffy with PDBe
10 November 2017
Lab Matters
EMBL and the European synchrotron ESRF extend their Joint Structural Biology Group
7 November 2017
Science
How open data is changing our pursuit of discovery
14 December 2016
Lab Matters
A new crystallography platform in Grenoble opens the door to new technological developments
11 November 2016
Lab Matters
Upgraded server room is ready to take the heat at EMBL Grenoble
27 September 2016
Lab Matters
CORBEL Open Call launches October 2016, for access to 15 facilities and 8 research infrastructures
20 September 2016
Alumni
Past meets present as Library head Ioanna Ydraiou interviews EMBL’s first librarian
30 August 2016
Science
'The PDB plays a crucial role in structural biology research and development'
30 June 2016
Science
Collaborations shorten distance between EMBL Heidelberg, Germany, and CEITEC in Brno, Czech Republic
7 June 2016
Lab Matters
Grenoble-based Partnership for Structural Biology (PSB) renewed for five more years
17 December 2015
Events
Find out what’s in store at the 2016 Core Technologies for the Life Sciences meeting.
14 September 2015
Lab Matters
Introducing the Small Angle Scattering Biological Data Bank, developed at EMBL Hamburg.
9 July 2015
Science
Jan Korbel and colleagues publish commentary on risks and rewards of genome cloud computing.
18 June 2015
Science
A puzzling peculiarity resolved by Hamburg’s Sample Preparation and Characterisation facility.
29 April 2015
Lab Matters
Karin Sasaki is helping bridge the gap between quantitative and life science at EMBL.
10 March 2015
Lab Matters
A quick round-up of the latest EMBL-EBI service releases.
28 January 2015
Science
How repurposing non-coding elements in the genome gave rise to the great ‘mammalian radiation’.
1 December 2014
Science
Genome-based insights into evolution of malaria-carrying Anopheles mosquitoes.
28 November 2014
Science
Largest collection of helminth genomic data ever assembled, in new open-access WormBase ParaSite.
31 October 2014
Science
New, open repository helps researchers share computational models of disease.
21 October 2014
Lab Matters
How does EMBL-EBI run millions of jobs for its users while moving its two large data centres?
17 October 2014
Science
Flow cytometry: finding needles in haystacks
9 October 2014
Lab Matters
Pathfinding – poetic and practical – was a common theme in blogs from the EMBL network.
16 September 2014
Events
An interview with keynote speaker Michael Rossmann.
10 September 2014
Science
Gibbon genome gives insights into evolution of this singing, swinging, tree-dwelling ape.
10 September 2014
Science
RNAcentral is the first unified resource for all types of non-coding RNA data.
8 August 2014
Lab Matters
A quick round-up of the latest EMBL-EBI service releases
8 August 2014
Lab Matters
Gyron Ltd awarded contract to supply EMBL-EBI's data centres over the next five years
8 August 2014
Science
Ensembl has incorporated a vast amount of knowledge into a fully annotated reference human genome
20 July 2014
Science
Marmoset genome provides insights into chimerism: data available in Ensembl genome explorer
1 July 2014
Lab Matters
As the Lab turns 40, staff and alumni share 40 things that make EMBL, EMBL
6 June 2014
Science
Reference sheep genome, published by International Sheep Genomics Consortium, available in Ensembl
9 June 2009
Science
The life sciences are scaling up and produce huge amounts of data and new literature at an amazing pace. The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) now offers a new free service to help researchers, teachers and students keep up-to-date with scientific literature on the web, especially when…
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