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Adam Gristwood

16 June 2020 Tissue culture plates in an incubator.

Understanding how SARS-CoV-2 behaves in the gut

Scientists at EMBL and Heidelberg University Hospital are studying how the novel coronavirus behaves in the gut to try to better understand its epidemiology and prevent its spread. To do this, they are combining advanced imaging and sequencing technologies to study coronavirus in human intestinal…

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

2020

sciencescience-technology

9 June 2020 Beamline Hamburg

Shining high-brilliance beams on coronavirus structure

EMBL researchers are studying COVID-19-related molecules by exposing them to high-brilliance X-ray beams. The Svergun group at EMBL Hamburg is using biological small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) as part of a global effort by scientists to elucidate the structural organisation of SARS-CoV-2…

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

2020

sciencescience-technology

22 May 2020

The hunt for neutralising antibodies against SARS-CoV-2

Scientists hope that a legacy of the novel coronavirus in recovered COVID-19 patients – antibodies in their blood – could lead to drugs to treat others. The Merten group at EMBL Heidelberg has pivoted its microfluidics platform to support the search for neutralising antibodies that could…

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

2020

sciencescience-technology

7 December 2016

Cycle of life

Paul Nurse’s failed experiment inspired a career that would uncover key mechanisms of cell division

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

2016

sciencescience-technology

24 November 2015 No coincidence: organisers of this year’s PhD Symposium gather at EMBL Heidelberg 22–24 October for Just by Chance? Randomness and variability shaping biology. PHOTO: EMBL Photolab/Marietta Shupp

EMBL in pictures

A snapshot of the many activities and events that took place in the world of EMBL this Autumn.

LAB MATTERS

2015

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18 June 2015

From mountains to molecules

Staff, alumni, partners and more meet at EMBL Grenoble to celebrate Outstation's 40th anniversary.

2015

events

16 February 2015

Fight or flight?

EMBL Insight Lecture – Why do we do what we do? – now available to view online.

2015

events

23 January 2015 Silvia Rohr. PHOTO: EMBL PHOTOLAB/MARIETTA SCHUPP

Let there be light

PhD student Silvia Rohr on studying eyes – and talking about it for a general audience.

LAB MATTERS

2015

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21 November 2014

Big biology, big success

EMBL-EBI supports Big Biology Day, inspiring 500 youngsters with jelly-baby DNA and golf-tee viruses.

2014

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19 November 2014

Foods are us!

Appetite to ZzZzZzZ… bite-sized highlights from this year’s Science and Society conference.

2014

events

11 November 2014

Polish connections

Alumna Anna Bartosik shares insights and hopes for EMBL's newest prospect member state, Poland.

LAB MATTERS

2014

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17 October 2014

Witness to history

EMBL Alumna Frieda Glöckner looks back more than four decades to where it all began.

LAB MATTERS

2014

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8 July 2014 Head of EMBL Monterotondo, Philip Avner, makes a toast.

Buon Compleanno!

EMBL Monterotondo celebrates double anniversary with fun, fireworks, festa and familiar faces

LAB MATTERS

2014

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1 July 2014

In our DNA

To photographer Horst Hamann, it's the people, not the science, that make EMBL unique

LAB MATTERS

2014

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1 July 2014 Illustration: Aad Goudappel, Rotterdam

Five for the future

Scientists from EMBL's five sites reflect on the opportunities and challenges that might lie ahead

LAB MATTERS

2014

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