{"id":13644,"date":"2018-06-08T15:41:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T13:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.embl.de\/?p=13644"},"modified":"2023-11-07T11:41:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T10:41:00","slug":"embl-six-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/lab-matters\/embl-six-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"EMBL in six objects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By Anne-Flore Lalo\u00eb<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Every year, on 9 June, archivists all around the world celebrate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ica.org\/en\/international-archives-day-2018\">International Archives Day<\/a> to raise awareness about the role of archives in collecting, preserving and sharing humanity\u2019s heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, at EMBL, 9 June also marks six weeks until the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.de\/aboutus\/archive\/archive-inauguration\/index.html\">inauguration of the EMBL Archive<\/a>. This will be held on 19 July at EMBL\u2019s Heidelberg site. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.embl.org\/archive\">EMBL Archive<\/a> is a new resource, which captures, preserves and makes available scientific and institutional material from EMBL\u2019s past and present for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahead of the inauguration, here is a preview of some material from EMBL\u2019s past. We will reveal one item a week until the inauguration and explain how it connects to the present and future of European molecular biology \u2013 so stay tuned!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"#object1\">International beginnings<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#object2\">Cellular organisation<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#object3\">Prize winning equipment<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#object4\">All aboard the PhD Programme<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#object5\">A modest data proposal<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"object6\">The importance of the scientific record<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"object1\">International beginnings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>May 1978, EMBL\u2019s first site, the headquarters in Heidelberg, was officially opened with an inauguration ceremony. At that event, immunologist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weizmann.ac.il\/immunology\/sci\/SelaPage.html\">Michael Sela<\/a> gave a speech on science and international collaboration. His message still rings true today: \u201cthe basic nature of science is authentically international\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"vf-figure wp-block-image  | vf-figure--align vf-figure--align-centered  size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"869\" height=\"525\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-1.png\" alt=\"document photo\" class=\"wp-image-42966\" style=\"width:652px;height:394px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-1.png 869w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-1-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-1-768x464.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 869px) 100vw, 869px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That is something that has been ingrained in EMBL\u2019s very foundations. From 10 member states when it was founded in 1974, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.de\/aboutus\/general_information\/organisation\/member_states\/index.html\">EMBL today has over 20 member states.<\/a>&nbsp;Scientists from these countries can access all EMBL services and programmes. Member states are also responsible for all important decisions about the organisation and its activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EMBL is now made up of over 1700 people from over 80 countries worldwide working across six sites. Over 7000 people travel each year to one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.de\/training\/events\/index.php\">EMBL\u2019s courses or conferences<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.embl.de\/science\/1707-eiroforum-driver-international-science\/\">The future of science is international and global<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 19 July 2018, at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.de\/aboutus\/archive\/archive-inauguration\/index.html\">the inauguration of the EMBL Archive<\/a>, Michael Sela will return to EMBL Heidelberg to give another speech. He will travel from Israel to Germany to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"object2\">Cellular organisation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This cover, from EMBL\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.embl.org\/index.php\/research-reports-1991%20%20(https:\/archive.embl.org\/index.php\/research-reports-1991\">1991 Research Report<\/a> (DE 2324 C-PUBS-C-16) illustrates work carried out that year to study how the inside of cells are organised. When cells divide the structures inside are dramatically altered: the chromosomes condense, the nuclear envelope fragments and microtubules reorganise and form the mitotic spindle. In 1991, several groups at EMBL were studying what happened cell division. In this image, the panels on the left show cells during interphase, or \u201cnormal\u201d phase. On the right, cells during division (mitosis). The upper panels display the microtubules (green) and DNA of the chromosomes (grey) as <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1002\/jemt.1060180110\">observed after double labelling in the confocal microscope<\/a>. The lower panels show a graphical representation of the cellular organelles during these processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"vf-figure wp-block-image  | vf-figure--align vf-figure--align-centered  size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"cell diagram\" class=\"wp-image-42968\" style=\"width:768px;height:768px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-2-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, in comparison, we can see individual condensin proteins bound to chromosomes during the different stages of cell division using quantitative live cell imaging, and we can even <a href=\"https:\/\/news.embl.de\/science\/looping-loops-chromosomes-form\/\">watch those condensins form.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"vf-figure wp-block-image  | vf-figure--align vf-figure--align-centered  size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"425\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-3.jpg\" alt=\"scientific image\" class=\"wp-image-42970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-3.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-3-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"vf-figure__caption\">Locations of Condensins I and II (green) on chromosomes (magenta) during cell division\nIMAGE: EMBL\/Nike Walther<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>EMBL\u2019s <em>Research Reports<\/em> were one way that EMBL made its research activities public. Later called <em>Research at a Glance<\/em> and now <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.de\/aboutus\/communication_outreach\/publications\/rib\/index.html\">Research in Brief<\/a><\/em>, a full history of these publications is accessible in the EMBL Archive\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.embl.org\/index.php\/embl-publications-non-scientific\">EMBL Institutional Publications<\/a>\u201d collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"object3\">Prize winning equipment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"vf-grid | vf-grid__col-2\"><div class=\"\"><!--[vf\/content]-->\n<div class=\"vf-content\">\n\n<figure class=\"vf-figure wp-block-image  | vf-figure--align vf-figure--align-centered  size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/embl-six-objects-eq-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/embl-six-objects-eq-1-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"schematics\" class=\"wp-image-43010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/embl-six-objects-eq-1-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/embl-six-objects-eq-1-1024x729.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/embl-six-objects-eq-1-768x547.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/embl-six-objects-eq-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"vf-figure__caption\">Original schematics from Dubochet, McDowall, and their team. PHOTO: EMBL <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"\"><!--[vf\/content]-->\n<div class=\"vf-content\">\n\n<figure class=\"vf-figure wp-block-image  | vf-figure--align vf-figure--align-centered  size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-eq-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-eq-2-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"scientific machine\" class=\"wp-image-42998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-eq-2-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-eq-2-1024x667.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-eq-2-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-eq-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"vf-figure__caption\">The original cryoholder developed by Dubochet, McDowall, and their team. PHOTO: EMBL <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"vf-grid | vf-grid__col-2\"><div class=\"\"><!--[vf\/content]-->\n<div class=\"vf-content\">\n\n<figure class=\"vf-figure wp-block-image  | vf-figure--align vf-figure--align-centered  size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-eq-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-eq-3-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"scientific machine\" class=\"wp-image-43000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-eq-3-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-eq-3-1024x541.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-eq-3-768x406.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-eq-3.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"vf-figure__caption\">The original cryoholder developed by Dubochet, McDowall, and their team. PHOTO: EMBL <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"\"><!--[vf\/content]-->\n<div class=\"vf-content\">\n\n<figure class=\"vf-figure wp-block-image  | vf-figure--align vf-figure--align-centered  size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-eq-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-eq-4-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"scientific machine part\" class=\"wp-image-43002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-eq-4-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-eq-4-768x486.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-eq-4.jpg 917w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"vf-figure__caption\">Detail of the original cryoholder developed by Dubochet, McDowall, and their team. PHOTO: EMBL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2017, EMBL alumnus Jacques Dubochet, together with Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson, was awarded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/chemistry\/laureates\/2017\/\">Nobel Prize in Chemistry<\/a> \u201cfor developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dubochet was at EMBL from between 1978 and 1987, a period during which he worked closely with EMBL\u2019s workshops to develop <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.embl.org\/index.php\/embl-instrumentation\">instruments<\/a>, in particular a cryo-holder and a cryo-plunger that prepare samples to be put into the large electron microscope. Today, cryo-electron microscopy represents one of EMBL\u2019s major areas of research and service provision. Although the equipment does look a little different today it is still recognisable from Dubochet\u2019s work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"vf-figure wp-block-image  | vf-figure--align vf-figure--align-centered  size-large is-resized size-full wp-image-13763\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-4-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-4-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Wim Hagen and Jacques Dubochet compare old and new. PHOTO: EMBL\" class=\"wp-image-42972\" style=\"width:768px;height:576px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-4-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-4-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"vf-figure__caption\">Wim Hagen and Jacques Dubochet compare old and new. PHOTO: EMBL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.de\/services\/core_facilities\/em\/index.html\">Electron Microscopy Core Facility<\/a> in Heidelberg, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.embl.de\/science\/new-cryo-em-facility\/\">cryo-EM facility in Grenoble<\/a> give users to access cutting-edge instruments and support, and EMBL scientists continue to innovate and create new techniques, such as correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"object4\">All aboard the PhD programme<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"vf-figure wp-block-image  | vf-figure--align vf-figure--align-centered  size-large is-resized wp-image-13830 size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-5-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-5-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"old EMBL logo\" class=\"wp-image-42974\" style=\"width:768px;height:576px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-5-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-5-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"vf-figure__caption\">PHOTO: Anne-Flore Lalo\u00eb\/EMBL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century, cars in Europe could often be seen sporting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldstandards.eu\/cars\/oval-stickers\/\">oval country code stickers<\/a> as they drove across borders. These helped distinguish cars from different countries that had similar looking registration pates. This poster, which recalls these stickers, was created to recruit the 1993 cohort of PhD students to the fictitious land of EMBL, which at that time had sites in Heidelberg, Hamburg and Grenoble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.de\/training\/eipp\/index.html\">EMBL PhD programme<\/a> was launched in 1983 in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.de\/training\/eipp\/partner_universities\/index.html\">universities across Europe<\/a> as part of EMBLs commitment to training. Today, EMBL welcomes about 60 new PhD students each year, with recruitment calls for the PhD programme each spring and autumn. Next week, potential predoctoral fellows (we call them predocs) will start visiting one of the six EMBL sites for interviews, that\u2019s three more sites than back when this poster was made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The EMBL Archive is <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.embl.org\/index.php\/embl-training\">collecting different facets of EMBL\u2019s training activities<\/a> including material that is produced and\/or received, from or by any of the EMBL sites, in the course of delivering training. This will be developed throughout the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"object5\">A modest data proposal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>EMBL&#8217;s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in the UK, makes biological data available to scientists all over the world, provides training and performs basic research in bioinformatics. Its data centre stores some 120 petabytes of data and receives more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/about\/our-impact\">27 million requests through its websites<\/a> every day. Back in the 1980s, however, EMBL\u2019s first databases were sent on magnetic tape through the post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his original 1987 proposal for a \u201cEuropean Molecular Biological Information Services\u201d, Graham Cameron, an early advocate and architect for the development of what would become EMBL-EBI, already wrote that the \u201cemphasis here is on access \u2013 we should ensure that European researchers can make use of up-to-date, accurate data from all relevant fields.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"vf-figure wp-block-image  | vf-figure--align vf-figure--align-centered  size-full wp-image-13858\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"481\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-6.png\" alt=\"hand-written page\" class=\"wp-image-42976\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-6.png 788w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-6-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/embl-six-objects-6-768x469.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"vf-figure__caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.embl.org\/uploads\/r\/archive-of-european-molecular-biology-laboratory\/d\/c\/1\/dc1f0acec4b1a98422580ed68562bb96f37f3c33cf8dcdb4aea18b3841584f99\/DE_2324_P-CAM-14-First_drafts-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See the full draft document in the Archive<\/a> (DE 2324 P-CAM-14\/First drafts-1)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, EMBL continues to promote open access to data and research. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.embl.de\/lab-matters\/1506-open-access\/\">EMBL\u2019s \u201cOpen Access Policy\u201d<\/a> also helps ensure that EMBL\u2019s scientific outputs are available not only for reading, but also for reuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">See also:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.embl.org\/index.php\/graham-cameron-fonds\">The Graham Cameron fonds is catalogued in the EMBL Archive<\/a>:<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/101386464\">A bioinformatics timeline<\/a><\/em>, prepared in 2014 on the occasion of EMBL-EBI\u2019s 20<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary celebrations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"object6\">The importance of the scientific record<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isaac Newton to Robert Hooke<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/digitallibrary.hsp.org\/index.php\/Detail\/objects\/9792\">letter from which the quote above comes<\/a> from is at the <a href=\"https:\/\/hsp.org\">Historical Society of Pennsylvania<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The quote features on this poster, which is part one of a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.embl.org\/index.php\/posters-collected-at-heidelberg-march-for-science\">series of posters<\/a> collected in Heidelberg during the 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/March_for_Science\">March for Science<\/a>. Science operates within society, it is part of it. The archives of science are the records of one of humanity\u2019s greatest sagas and I believe <a href=\"https:\/\/news.embl.de\/lab-matters\/opinion-archives-science\/\">access to the scientific record is what allows science to advance, every day, for the benefit of all of society<\/a>. 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