Science, Science & Technology RNA vaccines, such as the ones for COVID-19, represent a new approach in vaccine technology. Cy Jeffries, faculty staff scientist at EMBL Hamburg, explains the clever technology behind RNA vaccines, and how structural biology contributes to its development. EMBL Hamburg collaborated on several…
2021
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Lab Matters, Science & Technology Each year, EMBL Hamburg’s Svergun Group offers practical EMBO courses and lecture courses on biological small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). The courses provide young scientists an opportunity to gain hands-on experience by measuring their own samples, and by exploring different aspects of SAXS…
2021
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Lab Matters The current and previous Directors General discuss what it means to lead an organisation like EMBL
2019
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Science, Science & Technology New study by Paola Kuri and Maria Leptin shows how inflammation happens in zebrafish in real time
2017
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Lab Matters, People & Perspectives We catch up with neuroscientist Craig Stark, speaker at the EMBL/EMBO Science and Society Conference
2016
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Science, Science & Technology Strength of contraction determines whether cells become embryo or placenta
2016
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Science, Science & Technology 1st real-time video of starfish egg cell eliminating crucial structures, to ensure embryo viability
2016
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Science, Science & Technology New technique uses X-rays to find landmarks when combining fluorescence and electron microscopy
2016
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Science, Science & Technology What do cells in an embryo have in common with schools of fish, swarms of fireflies, and applauding audiences?
2016
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Science From initial development to a start-up company: Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy (SPIM) at EMBL.
2015
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Science New microscope can record the first days of a mouse embryo’s life
2015
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Science Using lasers to shed light on how tissues get into shape
2015
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Events From paper microscopes to zebrafish embryos, EMBL Science Days stand had something for everyone.
2015
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Events Long-time events pro Antje Seeck gives us her take on how to organise a successful conference.
2015
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Science MASSIF-1 processes its 10,000th crystal, less than one year after the beamline became operational.
2015
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Science Collaboration between scientists reveals collaboration between lipids.
2015
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Events Leading scientists will gather in Heidelberg this November to discuss the potential of personalised health.
2015
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Science Cells 'dance' as they draw together during early embryo development.
2015
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Science How strong does a spindle need to be? Videos put cell’s chromosome-separating machinery to the test
2015
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Events EMBL Insight Lecture – Why do we do what we do? – now available to view online.
2015
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Alumni Films by alumnus’ lab shortlisted for 2014 Visualisation Challenge, 'The Vizzies'.
2015
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Science Unprecedented detail on HIV structure continues virus’ string of surprises.
2014
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Science Like sports teams, cells can huddle to communicate in secret and organise group behaviour
2014
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Science How plankton gets jet lagged: the same hormone governs our sleep patterns and a daily marine migration.
2014
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Science How fruit flies beat the cold, plus the value of precisely controlled experiments and detailed analysis
2014
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Alumni Celebrating 50 years of EMBO, 40 years of EMBL and the success of molecular biology in Austria
2014
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Science, Science & Technology A kaleidoscope of molecules is needed to clean up dead brain cells, and failure can have disastrous consequences
2014
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Science, Science & Technology The balance behind membrane changes that turn one cell into 6000 as a fruit fly embryo develops
2014
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Science, Technology and innovation Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, have combined the power of two kinds of microscope to produce a 3-dimensional movie of how cells ‘swallow’ nutrients and other molecules by engulfing them. The study, published today in Cell, is the…
2012
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Science, Science & Technology “This video shows a fruit fly embryo from when it was about two-and-a-half hours old until it walked away from the microscope as a larva, 20 hours later,” says Lars Hufnagel, from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany. “It shows all the hallmarks of fruit fly…
2012
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Science The cells in the different parts of this video are always the same (grey), but, like actors using make-up to highlight different facial features, they have fluorescent labels that mark different cellular components in different colours: blue shows the nucleus, yellow shows tubulin (a component of…
2010
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