Sarah B. Puschmann, Author at EMBL

17 January 2018 With help from an external transcription factor (lavender, peach, and green), Pol III (grey) and its built-in transcription factor (yellow), create a cage around a cell’s DNA (plum). IMAGE: EMBL/Matthias Vorländer

With help from an external transcription factor (lavender, peach, and green), Pol III (grey) and its built-in transcription factor (yellow), create a cage around a cell’s DNA (plum). IMAGE: EMBL/Matthias Vorländer

Pol III enzyme grips DNA and begins reading fast

EMBL researchers uncover how a key enzyme that helps cells make new proteins starts its work

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

2018

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15 January 2018

Welcome: Matthieu Boulard

New EMBL group leader investigates the mystery of heritable gene silencing

PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES

2018

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8 January 2018 A photo of new EMBL Heidelberg group leader Aissam Ikmi.

Welcome: Aissam Ikmi

New group leader studies sea anemones to investigate why some animals regenerate better than others

PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES

2018

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22 December 2017 John Kendrew, c. 1978, visits the site of the EMBL main laboratory in Heidelberg. Photo taken by Frieda Glockner (EMBL Archive / DE 2324 P-GLO)

John Kendrew, c. 1978, visits the site of the EMBL main laboratory in Heidelberg. Photo taken by Frieda Glockner (EMBL Archive / DE 2324 P-GLO)

Molecular biology as a force for peace

Historian Soraya de Chadarevian explores how EMBL’s first Director General shaped molecular biology

LAB MATTERS PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES

2017

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13 December 2017 New research reveals that without cohesin (pictured here), the chromosomes in mouse liver cells still folded on the mega-base scale but didn’t form large-scale compartments

New research reveals that without cohesin (pictured here), the chromosomes in mouse liver cells still folded on the mega-base scale but didn’t form large-scale compartments

Chromosomes don’t need key protein for all their folds

New research reveals that two different mechanisms are responsible for chromosome folding

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

2017

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8 December 2017 Alasdair McDowall (left), an EMBL research technician 1978-1987, and Jacques Dubochet (right), EMBL group leader 1978-1987, together in Heidelberg

Alasdair McDowall (left), an EMBL research technician 1978-1987, and Jacques Dubochet (right), EMBL group leader 1978-1987, together in Heidelberg

Alasdair McDowall’s slow road to flash freezing

How a research technician with a master’s degree contributed to Nobel Prize-winning work

PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES

2017

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7 December 2017 An artist’s representation of the shrinking holes and expanding pores that form in the nuclear membrane of cells during mitosis

Cells grow pores from shrinking holes

New research shows how pores form in the membrane that surrounds a cell’s nucleus

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

2017

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30 November 2017 Examples of e-HCFM 3D-images imaged using the technique

New technique for imaging the life aquatic

New method for 3D imaging microorganisms lends insight into the creatures that inhabit our oceans

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

2017

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14 November 2017 By peering into the strands of the Ebola virus (pictured here), researchers were able to create a 3D model of the nucleocapsid.

High-res Ebola model could spark new questions

EMBL researchers create highest resolution 3D model of important structure within Ebola virus

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

2017

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