A special puppeteer holds the strings to liver cells’ identity
Scientists at EMBL and DKFZ have discovered how cells in the liver maintain their identity and avoid becoming tumour cells.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2025
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AI helps scientists decipher cellular structures
New artificial intelligence tool adds speed and detailed cellular information to analysis of cryo-electron tomography to aid researchers’ understanding of inner cell workings.
2023
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Judith Zaugg from EMBL Heidelberg receives ERC Consolidator Grant
Judith Zaugg, Group Leader at EMBL Heidelberg, has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant of €2 million funded under the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme. Over the next five years, the grant will enable her group to study cellular interactions in the human bone…
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2022
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It’s like a party in your brain
Fluorescent dyes light up a cellular community of neurons and brain immune cells (microglia), which were derived from stem cells.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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Predicting how gene expression varies
Discoveries at EMBL will help researchers to interpret one of the most common types of experiments in genomics and medical studies.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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From stem cells to neurons
Scientists at EMBL Heidelberg have investigated stem cells and how they differentiate to become neurons. Their approach included an assessment of the complex interplay of molecules during the differentiation process and generated fundamental new insights into the role of a protein called Sox2 in…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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EMBL scientists investigate rare lung disease
Researchers in EMBL’s Zaugg group have studied the causes of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a rare disease that causes high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs. The study, carried out in collaboration with Stanford University School of Medicine, compared lung cells of patients…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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New insights into gene regulation
EMBL researchers investigate the role of a histone protein in regulating gene expression
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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How transcription factors work together
EMBL researchers have developed a method to observe interactions between transcription factors
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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A classification tool for transcription factors
The software diffTF quantifies activity of transcription factors and predicts their mode of action
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2019
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Loops in DNA affect which proteins are coded
EMBL scientists unveil how 3D chromatin structure affects RNA splicing
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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Life in 3D
EMBL scientists map ‘switches’ for distant control of gene expression.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2015
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