The Kowalinski group at EMBL Grenoble identified significant differences between the trypanosomal and human nuclear cap-binding complex, a key player in cellular RNA metabolism and a potential target for novel anti-parasitic drugs.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2025
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Memorandum of Understanding between EMBL and ELLIS will drive AI in European life science research, training, and technology. The strategic partnership will promote interdisciplinary training and develop innovative projects that address pressing challenges in human and planetary health.
CONNECTIONS2025
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EMBL announces that Peer Bork and Ewan Birney will lead the organisation after the departure of Director General Edith Heard in summer 2025.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS2024
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Creators of AI system AlphaFold receive 2024 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2024
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The prize was awarded to John J. Hopfield, Princeton University, USA, and Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto, Canada, for their seminal contributions to the foundational methods that enabled the development of machine learning.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2024
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Julia Mahamid and Nassos Typas reflect on the direction of the Molecular Systems Biology Unit they now lead at EMBL Heidelberg.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2024
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EMBL's 50th anniversary symposium brought together its vibrant community, showcased its many scientific contributions, and drove discussion on the future of Europe's leading life sciences laboratory.
CONNECTIONS2024
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Professor Edith Heard will succeed Sir Paul Nurse at the London-based institute in the summer of 2025
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS2024
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A new research paper published in Nature Communications lays the groundwork for the development of new drugs specific to genetic mutations or alterations responsible for the onset of tumours or genetic diseases.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2024
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EMBL´s position paper outlines the organisation’s views on the importance of science and how it could be best supported in the context of the upcoming European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FP10).
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS2024
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EMBL Grenoble and the ESRF hosted a workshop bringing together representatives from research and industry to discuss the ever-growing role of artificial intelligence in the field of structural biology.
CONNECTIONS2024
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SpatialData is a tool developed by EMBL scientists in cooperation with multiple research institutions to unify and integrate data from different omics technologies in a spatial environment, providing holistic insights into health and disease. Researchers can now freely access and use SpatialData…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2024
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New study from the Galej group provides deeper structural insight into the assembly of a critical molecular machine, that removes non-coding information from genes during their expression.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2024
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The Ensembl 111 features a range of new Ensembl VEP plugins and updated agricultural, fish, plant and metazoa species.
2024
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Latvia’s life sciences sector will benefit from expanded access to the leading European research, services, and training provided by EMBL.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2024
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The Barcelona Collaboratorium celebrated a milestone as it hosted the EMBO Practical Course ‘Computational modelling of multicellular systems'.
CONNECTIONS2023
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EMBL scientist Oliver Stegle explains how AI-based tools have the potential to transform our ability to better understand the complexity of life and how these tools will shape the future of life science exploration.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2023
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The work and excellence of EMBL researchers have been recognised with multiple awards and honours during the past six months.
EMBLetc2023
Scientists from the MELIS department at UPF and EMBL Barcelona have organised a symposium to discuss the work of the visionary Catalan scientist Pere Alberch, who passed away 25 years ago.
CONNECTIONS2023
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EMBL receives the German AI prize awarded for outstanding services to the research and development as well as application and commercialisation of artificial intelligence (AI) in life science research.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS2023
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Through the collaborative framework agreement, EMBL and ZEISS aim to accelerate the development of imaging technology to advance life science research.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2023
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The work and excellence of EMBL researchers have been recognised with multiple awards and honours during the past six months. Here are some of the awardees.
EMBLetc2023
EMBL’s planetary biology flagship TREC expedition has officially started. The new project applies EMBL's expertise and technologies in molecular and cellular biology to current environmental challenges, and connects with a wide range of research disciplines.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS2023
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One of EMBL’s core missions is the development and transfer of scientific know-how and technologies to academia, industry, and commercial entities to facilitate further research, innovations, and commercialisation for the benefit of society at large. Working across Europe, EMBL has partnerships…
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2023
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InterPro version 92.0 and InterProScan 5.60-92.0 are now available. InterPro now features hundreds of new methods integrated from partner databases, and InterProScan draws on over 38000 entries.
2023
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EMBL Heidelberg researchers and their collaborators reveal how the nuclear pore complex, one of the biggest molecular machines in eukaryotic cells, is assembled one protein at a time.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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The work and excellence of EMBL researchers have been recognised with multiple awards and honours during the past year.
EMBLetc2022
The Royal Microscopical Society awarded Ardan Patwardhan and Wim Hagen with Scientific Achievement Award
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2022
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Cell biologist Anthony Hyman and DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis and John Jumper were announced among 25 Breakthrough Prize recipients
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2022
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Microbial communities play essential roles in ocean ecology and planetary health. A recent publication highlights priorities for understanding and protecting ocean microbiomes.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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Former chair of EMBL Council to take office as the next President of the Max Planck Society in June 2023.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS2022
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Two days of events with institutes in the country add a new chapter to successful scientific collaboration
CONNECTIONS2022
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Showing a continued commitment to providing a diverse and inclusive organisation for conducting leading molecular biology research, EMBL has launched an Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) strategy.
LAB MATTERS2021
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Independent impact review finds EMBL experimental services are ‘critical’ for research and endorses EMBL as a world-class service provider for academia and industry.
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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The engagement of US and European Big Science facilities
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2021
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Professor Edith Heard is among new members elected to US National Academy of Medicine
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2021
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EMBL and Hungarian research institutes will collaborate to address urgent biological and environmental challenges.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2021
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Former EMBL Director General Professor Iain Mattaj was awarded the German Cross of Merit (‘Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland’) at a ceremony held at EMBL Heidelberg on 9 September 2021.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS2021
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EMBL Director General Edith Heard has warmly welcomed Fiona Watt, who will become the new director of EMBO.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2021
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The EMBL Imaging Centre is preparing for external user access, after an on-time and on-budget build and handover to the science team.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2021
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Dr Alexander Aulehla has been appointed the new Head of EMBL’s Developmental Biology Unit, and will take up the role starting in July 2021.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2021
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EMBL Director General Edith Heard has warmly welcomed the appointment of Professor Maria Leptin as the next President of the European Research Council (ERC)
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2021
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EMBL is conducting an Impact Assessment of our experimental services to understand the value these services have for our external user community. If you have accessed EMBL experimental services at one or more of our facilities to support the conduct of your research, we would like to hear from you.
LAB MATTERS2021
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A note on the coronavirus variant B.1.1.7, which has first been described in the U.K. and has spread to 57 countries. The note summarises epidemiological information about the spread of B.1.1.7 in the U.K. collated and in part conducted by researchers from EMBL-EBI.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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EMBL and the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg are increasing their already existing collaborations with a Memorandum of Understanding between the two institutions.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2021
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Three changes in senior staff positions have been confirmed at EMBL today. Jessica Vamathevan becomes Head of Strategy, Jan Korbel becomes Head of Data Science for EMBL Heidelberg, and Nassos Typas becomes Senior Scientist.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2020
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To address global challenges, we need to better understand life in the context of environmental change, says EMBL Director General Edith Heard
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2020
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Today marks the next chapter in the UK’s relationship with Europe. While we wait to see what a future relationship brings, researchers will continue to work across borders to tackle society’s most pressing problems, such as climate change, ageing, and disease.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2020
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Edith Heard is inaugurated as EMBL Director General
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS2019
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