LimbLab: a tool to visualise development in 3D
Researchers at EMBL Barcelona have developed an open-source tool that makes working with complicated volumetric imaging data easier.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2026
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From static papers to living models: turning limb development research into interactive science
LimbNET is a new online platform that integrates computer modelling, experimental data, and 2D live simulations.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2025
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Expanding the biological world through microscopy
EMBL researchers have been using a powerful technique called ultrastructure expansion microscopy to peek deeper inside living organisms and understand how they function.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2025
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Spotting stealth multiplets for better single-cell experiment design
Researchers at EMBL Barcelona have quantitatively evaluated the risk of undetected artefacts in single-cell RNA sequencing experiments.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2025
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How video games inspired a new way to visualise limb development
EMBL Barcelona researchers developed a computational method that reconstructs embryonic development.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2025
science-technology
Building the ideal limb
EMBL researchers use a “fearless” computer reconstruction and a two-centuries-old mathematical approach to study limb bud growth.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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Tracing the origins of cells
Researchers from the Sharpe group at EMBL Barcelona have published a method to track the developmental history of a cell using the gene editing tool CRISPR–Cas9, but without the need to create transgenic organisms.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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Science as art in the Barcelona Metro
Images by EMBL researchers are included in an art–science exhibition in a Barcelona Metro station.
LAB MATTERS2019
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James Sharpe elected EMBO Member
The head of EMBL’s Barcelona site joins a prestigious group of more than 1800 scientists worldwide
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2019
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Hundreds of tiny robots grow bio-inspired shapes
Scientists build self-organising features into robot swarms to study shape formation
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2018
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Welcome: Jim Swoger
New head of the Mesoscopic Imaging Facility at EMBL Barcelona will help scientists visualise nature
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2018
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New insights into Turing patterns
EMBL scientists extend Turing’s theory to help understand how biological patterns are created
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2018
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Women in Science Day: school event
EMBL Barcelona organises first school activity to coincide with the International Day of Women in Science
LAB MATTERS2018
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EMBL Barcelona co-organises first conference
James Sharpe, Head of EMBL Barcelona, co-chairs the morphogenetic engineering-themed conference
CONNECTIONS2017
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Welcome: James Sharpe
Meet the head of EMBL's new Barcelona site, James Sharpe
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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James Sharpe appointed Head of EMBL Barcelona
Inventor of OPT will be the first Head of EMBL’s new Barcelona site
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2017
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