Lab Matters The GEEF facility at EMBL Rome supports scientists worldwide with scientific expertise and state-of-the-art gene editing technologies.
2022
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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.
2022
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Lab Matters The new EMBL Imaging Centre has announced its first open user call, and new project evaluation process and training opportunities.
2021
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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.
2021
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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.
2021
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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.
2021
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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.
2021
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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.
2021
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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.
2021
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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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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.
2021
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Science Under the innovative Planetary Biology research theme, EMBL scientists aim to understand life in the context of its environment.
2021
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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 Scientists have determined the structure of Glycine Transporter 1. The finding could open new avenues for developing therapeutics for psychiatric disorders
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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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.
2020
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Science EMBL Heidelberg reopens the Cryo-Electron Microscopy Service Platform to support coronavirus structural biology research.
2020
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Lab Matters Enhancing the world's bioinformatics infrastructure
2019
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Science Europe PMC adds preprints to its search
2018
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Science Access to state-of-the-art microscopes and outstanding expertise
2018
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Science What are the strangest genomes in EMBL-EBI's Ensembl?
2017
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Science High resolution 3D protein structures in a giffy with PDBe
2017
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Lab Matters EMBL and the European synchrotron ESRF extend their Joint Structural Biology Group
2017
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Science How open data is changing our pursuit of discovery
2017
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Lab Matters A new crystallography platform in Grenoble opens the door to new technological developments
2016
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Lab Matters Upgraded server room is ready to take the heat at EMBL Grenoble
2016
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Lab Matters CORBEL Open Call launches October 2016, for access to 15 facilities and 8 research infrastructures
2016
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Alumni Past meets present as Library head Ioanna Ydraiou interviews EMBL’s first librarian
2016
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Science 'The PDB plays a crucial role in structural biology research and development'
2016
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Science Collaborations shorten distance between EMBL Heidelberg, Germany, and CEITEC in Brno, Czech Republic
2016
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Lab Matters Grenoble-based Partnership for Structural Biology (PSB) renewed for five more years
2016
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Events Find out what’s in store at the 2016 Core Technologies for the Life Sciences meeting.
2015
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Lab Matters Introducing the Small Angle Scattering Biological Data Bank, developed at EMBL Hamburg.
2015
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Science Jan Korbel and colleagues publish commentary on risks and rewards of genome cloud computing.
2015
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Science A puzzling peculiarity resolved by Hamburg’s Sample Preparation and Characterisation facility.
2015
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Lab Matters Karin Sasaki is helping bridge the gap between quantitative and life science at EMBL.
2015
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Lab Matters A quick round-up of the latest EMBL-EBI service releases.
2015
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Science How repurposing non-coding elements in the genome gave rise to the great ‘mammalian radiation’.
2015
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Science Genome-based insights into evolution of malaria-carrying Anopheles mosquitoes.
2014
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Science Largest collection of helminth genomic data ever assembled, in new open-access WormBase ParaSite.
2014
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Science New, open repository helps researchers share computational models of disease.
2014
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Lab Matters How does EMBL-EBI run millions of jobs for its users while moving its two large data centres?
2014
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Science Flow cytometry: finding needles in haystacks
2014
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Lab Matters Pathfinding – poetic and practical – was a common theme in blogs from the EMBL network.
2014
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Events An interview with keynote speaker Michael Rossmann.
2014
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Science Gibbon genome gives insights into evolution of this singing, swinging, tree-dwelling ape.
2014
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Science RNAcentral is the first unified resource for all types of non-coding RNA data.
2014
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Lab Matters A quick round-up of the latest EMBL-EBI service releases
2014
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Lab Matters Gyron Ltd awarded contract to supply EMBL-EBI's data centres over the next five years
2014
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Science Ensembl has incorporated a vast amount of knowledge into a fully annotated reference human genome
2014
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Science Marmoset genome provides insights into chimerism: data available in Ensembl genome explorer
2014
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Lab Matters As the Lab turns 40, staff and alumni share 40 things that make EMBL, EMBL
2014
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Science Reference sheep genome, published by International Sheep Genomics Consortium, available in Ensembl
2014
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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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