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Scientists have shown how the boundaries of biological tissues create geometric constraints that lead cells to orient in a magnet-like manner, giving rise to structure and order inside developing embryos.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2026
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New study identifies ‘mechanotypes’ as the physical links between genes and body shapes, explaining and predicting how diverse forms arise in animals like corals and sea anemones.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2026
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EMBL’s Scientific Visitor Programme enables high-level scientific exchange and cross-fertilisation of ideas and technologies through sabbatical fellowships for researchers.
CONNECTIONS2024
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The new group leader is setting up the first purely theory-focused research group at EMBL Barcelona. He aims to understand fundamental biological principles using mathematical models and computer simulations, in close collaboration with experimental researchers across EMBL.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2023
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Competition celebrates importance of robust theoretical modelling for systems biology
2022
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The institutes have launched a joint new initiative which aims to make biology as engineerable as an aeroplane or a bridge.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2022
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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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Virginie Uhlmann, Research Group Leader at EMBL-EBI and one of the co-chairs of the Theory@EMBL transversal theme, chats about how this theme will open up new research avenues.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2022
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EMBL scientists have found evidence of an unexpected role for retinal cells in pre-processing visual information; their results provide potential opportunity for future prosthetic visual aids.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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Anna Erzberger, one of EMBL’s newest group leaders, will provide unique perspective as a theoretical biological physicist.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2021
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