People & Perspectives EMBL alumnus Thibaut Brunet, recipient of the 2024 John Kendrew Young Scientist Award, shares his scientific journey – from a childhood passion for nature to the discovery of a new species of choanoflagellate.
2024
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Science & Technology Sponges lack muscles and neurons. Yet, they make coordinated movements. Scientists at EMBL Heidelberg have discovered that sponge movement is controlled by an ancient ‘relaxant-inflammatory’ response that is also present in vertebrate blood vessels. The findings shed light on sponge physiology…
2024
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EMBLetc EMBL researchers are pushing the frontiers of big data analysis in biological imaging, allowing scientists to gain a many-layered and multidimensional view of organisms, tissues, and cells in action.
2023
ConnectionsLab Matters Europe’s life sciences laboratory EMBL on 5 April welcomed Council delegates Ivana Lagator and Lidija Vukcevic from the Montenegrin Ministry of Science and Technological Development, and University of Montenegro representative Professor Danilo Mrdak, to discuss expanding research and training…
2023
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An annual Corporate Partnership Programme meeting provided a forum for EMBL researchers and industry representatives to discuss mobile labs, planetary biology, and other areas of common interest.
2023
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EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL is leading the TREC project: the first pan-European and cross-disciplinary effort to examine life in its natural context.
2023
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Science & Technology What can sponges tell us about the evolution of the brain? Sponges have the genes involved in neuronal function in higher animals. But if sponges don’t have brains, what is the role of these? EMBL scientists imaged the sponge digestive chamber to find out.
2021
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Science & Technology EMBL scientists and colleagues have developed an interactive atlas of the entire marine worm Platynereis dumerilii in its larval stage. The PlatyBrowser resource combines high-resolution gene expression data with volume electron microscopy images.
2021
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Science & Technology Under the innovative Planetary Biology research theme, EMBL scientists aim to understand life in the context of its environment.
2021
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Science & Technology Paola Bertucci, from the Arendt Group at EMBL Heidelberg, studies the evolution of Platynereis dumerilii – a species of annelid polychaete worm.
2020
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Science & Technology EMBL researchers combine multiple datasets to develop expandable atlas of an entire animal
2020
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Science & Technology Exploring the diverse routes by which EMBL scientists are driving forward neurobiology
2019
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Connections Two recent events have expanded EMBL’s collaboration with one of its newest member states
2019
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Science & Technology EMBL researchers discover that four organs in a marine worm’s head can sense different chemicals
2018
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Science & Technology EMBL scientists discover how a molecule’s role changes from simple metabolite to instructive signal
2018
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Science & Technology EMBL researchers complete a molecular atlas showing gene expression in all cells in an entire animal
2017
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Science & Technology ERC grantee Detlev Arendt shares his vision for the next ten years
2017
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Science & Technology 3D printing, gaming, virtual reality and lenticular posters bring new perspectives to research
2016
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EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL scientists regularly receive prestigious awards – meet the latest honourees.
2015
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New single-cell genomics techniques bring ‘omics to evolution and development research.
2015
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EMBL’s corporate partners zoom in on big data and bioimaging.
2015
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Our cerebral cortex, or pallium, is a big part of what makes us human: art, literature and science would not exist had this most fascinating part of our brain not emerged in some less intelligent ancestor in prehistoric times. But when did this occur and what were these ancestors? Unexpectedly,…
2010
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The last ancestor we shared with worms, which roamed the seas around 600 million years ago, may already have had a sophisticated brain that released hormones into the blood and was connected to various sensory organs. The evidence comes not from a newly found fossil but from the study of microRNAs…
2010
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