Annual Report
Collaborative discovery in challenging times
From microscopy to mycology, from development to disease modelling, EMBL researchers cover a wide range of topics in the biological sciences.
Collaborative discovery in challenging times
Analysing data to unravel biological complexity
Understanding how cells work and how they are organised
Developing new drugs and tools to understand the chemistry of life
EMBL’s contribution to fighting the coronavirus pandemic
How single cells give rise to complex organisms
Understanding the causes of disease to find new treatments
Promoting and facilitating interdisciplinary research at EMBL
How cells interpret the DNA code to carry out biological functions
Cutting edge technology, zooming into life at the tiniest scales
Mathematical analysis is crucial to the data-rich science of biology
Enabling technology for a host of experimental methods
How complex organisms evolved from primordial bacteria and the fate of the myriad organisms present today
Understanding how assemblies of cells develop, work, and heal
Understanding life in the context of its environment
Researchers at EMBL-EBI make sense of vast, complex biological datasets produced using new and emerging technologies in molecular biology.
Scientists in this unit use multidisciplinary approaches to investigate the molecular and biophysical mechanisms that enable cells to function.
Scientists in the Developmental biology unit seek to understand the fundamental principles that govern multicellular development.
This unit covers thematically distinct research groups, headed by EMBL and EMBO leadership.
At EMBL Rome, scientists explore the connections between genome, environment, and neural function.
The Genome biology unit uses and develops cutting-edge methods to study how the information in our genome is regulated, processed, and utilised, and how its alteration leads to disease.
Scientists in this unit use integrated structural and computational techniques to study biology at scales from molecular structures to organismal communities.
At its sites in Hamburg and Grenoble, EMBL provides its researchers and hundreds of external users each year with access to world-leading sources of X-ray and neutron radiation, enabling them to study the structures of biological molecules.
Scientists at EMBL Barcelona use advanced technologies to observe, manipulate, and model how changes in genes percolate through cells, tissues, and organs, in health and disease.
News from EMBL’s six sites