Europe PMC ROR integration improves grant affiliations
Updates from data resources Better search for Europe PMC funder grants with ROR IDs
2023
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EMBL Rome’s Gene Editing and Embryology Facility generates transgenic mice to understand human diseases
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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EMBL Imaging Centre kickstarts training with workshop for undergraduates
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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EMBL Imaging Centre launches first open call for users
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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EMBL experimental services enable European researchers to tackle global societal challenges
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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Analysis and sorting with flow cytometry
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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The secret life of baby octopuses
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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Common medications accumulate in gut bacteria
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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A flip book for biological systems
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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MASSIF-1 beamline in Grenoble supports COVID-19 drug discovery
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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EMBL external research community survey
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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Dream team
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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Living laboratories
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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Shaping the future of structural biology and X-ray imaging at EMBL Hamburg
Events A workshop run by EMBL Hamburg explored opportunities for structural biology at the future, upgraded PETRA IV synchrotron.
2021
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New perspectives for treating psychiatric disorders
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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SPC Facility in Hamburg supports a new pan-European consortium
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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Exploring synthetic antibodies to stop coronavirus
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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Supporting international research on the structure of the coronavirus
Science EMBL Heidelberg reopens the Cryo-Electron Microscopy Service Platform to support coronavirus structural biology research.
2020
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Funding for bioinformatics technical infrastructure
Lab Matters Enhancing the world's bioinformatics infrastructure
2019
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Europe PMC now indexes preprints
Science Europe PMC adds preprints to its search
2018
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New cryo-EM service at EMBL Heidelberg
Science Access to state-of-the-art microscopes and outstanding expertise
2018
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Curious genomes
Science What are the strangest genomes in EMBL-EBI's Ensembl?
2017
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Exploring 3D macromolecules in a flash
Science High resolution 3D protein structures in a giffy with PDBe
2017
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EMBL and ESRF renew collaboration agreement
Lab Matters EMBL and the European synchrotron ESRF extend their Joint Structural Biology Group
2017
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A smart cabinet of curiosities
Science How open data is changing our pursuit of discovery
2017
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New Crystallography platform inaugurated
Lab Matters A new crystallography platform in Grenoble opens the door to new technological developments
2016
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Big data, cool servers
Lab Matters Upgraded server room is ready to take the heat at EMBL Grenoble
2016
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Accelerate your research with CORBEL
Lab Matters CORBEL Open Call launches October 2016, for access to 15 facilities and 8 research infrastructures
2016
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Szilárd Library: An open book
Alumni Past meets present as Library head Ioanna Ydraiou interviews EMBL’s first librarian
2016
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Form follows function
Science 'The PDB plays a crucial role in structural biology research and development'
2016
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Scientific twins
Science Collaborations shorten distance between EMBL Heidelberg, Germany, and CEITEC in Brno, Czech Republic
2016
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Partnership for Structural Biology: strength in diversity
Lab Matters Grenoble-based Partnership for Structural Biology (PSB) renewed for five more years
2016
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Event gets to the core of research
Events Find out what’s in store at the 2016 Core Technologies for the Life Sciences meeting.
2015
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From side-project to valuable resource
Lab Matters Introducing the Small Angle Scattering Biological Data Bank, developed at EMBL Hamburg.
2015
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The genome in the cloud
Science Jan Korbel and colleagues publish commentary on risks and rewards of genome cloud computing.
2015
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The curious case of the bi-specific enzyme
Science A puzzling peculiarity resolved by Hamburg’s Sample Preparation and Characterisation facility.
2015
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Pathways: In the prime of life
Lab Matters Karin Sasaki is helping bridge the gap between quantitative and life science at EMBL.
2015
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Bioinformatics services: Winter 2015
Lab Matters A quick round-up of the latest EMBL-EBI service releases.
2015
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Why is a dolphin not a cat?
Science How repurposing non-coding elements in the genome gave rise to the great ‘mammalian radiation’.
2015
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What makes a mosquito deadly?
Science Genome-based insights into evolution of malaria-carrying Anopheles mosquitoes.
2014
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Record parasitic worm dataset
Science Largest collection of helminth genomic data ever assembled, in new open-access WormBase ParaSite.
2014
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Computational modelling resource
Science New, open repository helps researchers share computational models of disease.
2014
science
Job dispatched
Lab Matters How does EMBL-EBI run millions of jobs for its users while moving its two large data centres?
2014
lab-matters
Go with the flow
Science Flow cytometry: finding needles in haystacks
2014
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Blog roundup: September
Lab Matters Pathfinding – poetic and practical – was a common theme in blogs from the EMBL network.
2014
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Hamburg anniversary symposium: Preview
Events An interview with keynote speaker Michael Rossmann.
2014
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Gibbon genome joins Ensembl
Science Gibbon genome gives insights into evolution of this singing, swinging, tree-dwelling ape.
2014
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RNAcentral Station
Science RNAcentral is the first unified resource for all types of non-coding RNA data.
2014
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Bioinformatics services: Summer 2014
Lab Matters A quick round-up of the latest EMBL-EBI service releases
2014
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New EMBL-EBI data centre contract
Lab Matters Gyron Ltd awarded contract to supply EMBL-EBI's data centres over the next five years
2014
lab-matters
New, improved human genome
Science Ensembl has incorporated a vast amount of knowledge into a fully annotated reference human genome
2014
science
Shedding light on chimeral twins
Science Marmoset genome provides insights into chimerism: data available in Ensembl genome explorer
2014
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Forty things that make EMBL – Part 2
Lab Matters As the Lab turns 40, staff and alumni share 40 things that make EMBL, EMBL
2014
lab-matters
Sheep genome provides rich resource for agricultural research
Science Reference sheep genome, published by International Sheep Genomics Consortium, available in Ensembl
2014
science
New EMBL service makes web browsing efficient for biologists
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…
2009
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