The cellular superhero that protects us against RNA viruses
Scientists have discovered how the antiviral protein TRIM25 finds and binds viral RNA to activate an innate immune response.
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New funding scheme to strengthen infection biology research across Europe
EMBL and partners announce ‘Amplifying Funds in Infection Biology’ to foster interdisciplinary and collaborative research in infection biology.
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Gaining skills and building connections in infection biology
The first EMBL-UNESCO infection biology research fellows share observations after residencies with EMBL researchers.
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RNA to rule them all
The Kosinski Group at EMBL Hamburg collaborated with other groups in Hamburg to reveal critical steps in Lassa virus ribonucleoparticle assembly and recruitment, and the crucial role played by RNA in …
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ggCaller: The next step in scaling up bacterial genome annotation
The Lees group develops a tool that can scale up bacterial genome annotation.
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Facilitating drug discovery against COVID-19
A collaboration between EMBL Grenoble and EBRIS scientists led to the characterisation of a new compound with promising activity against SARS-CoV-2 variants.
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Pathogens Portal: The new gateway to public pathogen data
Enabling researchers worldwide to share and analyse pathogen data generated across the world
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EMBL partners with UNESCO to drive progress on shared goals
New agreement with UN organisation will enable cooperation in the fields of open science, capacity building, and talent development
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Molecules to Ecosystems: Jan Kosinski on the Infection Biology transversal theme
Jan Kosinski, Group Leader at EMBL Hamburg and one of the co-chairs of the Infection Biology theme in EMBL’s new programme, chats about how this theme will support his work and help establish new coll…
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The retron switch
EMBL researchers now understand the function of an elusive small DNA in bacteria and have developed a tool that can be used to better understand what might ‘switch on’ bacterial immune defences.
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A postdoc conference spotlighted in tweets
EMBL hosted a futuristic infection biology conference, but it offered even more: an opportunity for postdocs to share their work and network towards future research homes.
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