
Changes in EMBL leadership
Peer Bork and Ewan Birney take up interim leadership of EMBL as Edith Heard steps down as Director General.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS2025
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Peer Bork and Ewan Birney take up interim leadership of EMBL as Edith Heard steps down as Director General.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS2025
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Right from the early days of DNA sequencing, EMBL’s scientists have been instrumental in helping the world understand, decode, archive, and manipulate genomes at scale and across many branches of the evolutionary tree, a task they continue to excel at today.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2024
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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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Ewan Birney reflects on his time at EMBL and the development of the organisation through a commitment to open data and nurturing scientific talent.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2024
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EMBL-EBI's Senior Management Team announces new appointment and title changes.
2024
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EMBL stands as a leader, exemplifying how to harmoniously integrate AI in research and through its delivery of data services.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2023
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On the 20th anniversary of the Human Genome Project, we look back at its history, wonder and potential.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2023
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Scientists have the technology to edit the human genome. But when should they, and who contributes to these decisions?
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2023
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Using Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing, EMBL scientists sequenced a primary childhood brain tumour known as a medulloblastoma, uncovering a novel complex mutation pattern.
2023
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A new method for the robust analysis of copy number variation and used UK Biobank data to identify links between genome and disease.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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DeepMind visits EMBL Heidelberg to discuss current and future implications of Artificial Intelligence for life science research.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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An international team of scientists involving Ewan Birney's group has investigated the function of a complex mesh of muscle fibres that line the inner surface of the heart.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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Today we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first draft of the entire human genome.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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Enhancing the world's bioinformatics infrastructure
LAB MATTERS2019
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New mechanism revealed
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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Global Alliance for Genomics and Health chose Birney to lead efforts to bring genomics to the clinic
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2016
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Largest-ever study of breast cancer genomes reveals new genes and mutations
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2016
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Award acknowledges leadership in gender equality on the Wellcome Genome Campus
LAB MATTERS2016
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Find out what’s in store at the 2016 Core Technologies for the Life Sciences meeting.
CONNECTIONS2015
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Identifying evidence-based relationships between drug targets and diseases.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2015
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Connecting entrepreneurs and world leaders in genomics to address opportunities and challenges.
CONNECTIONS2015
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Ewan Birney on the risks, rewards and realities of studying humans as a model species.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2015
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Evaluation of MinION™ sequencer finds performance and reliability consistently good.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2015
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EMBL scientists regularly receive prestigious awards – meet the latest honourees.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2015
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Staff gather to celebrate Janet Thorton's 14 years as Director of EMBL-EBI.
LAB MATTERS2015
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Researchers at EMBL-EBI speed up complex GWAS analyses with new method and algorithm.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2015
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CERN openlab enters a new phase, expanding to include EMBL-EBI and other public research organisations.
LAB MATTERS2015
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EMBL’s corporate partners zoom in on big data and bioimaging.
CONNECTIONS2015
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Rolf Apweiler and Ewan Birney appointed Joint Directors of EMBL-EBI, as Janet Thornton steps down.
LAB MATTERS2015
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Jeffrey Barrett appointed Director of CTTV, the GSK, EMBL-EBI and Sanger Institute partnership.
LAB MATTERS2015
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A blog extract by Ewan Birney reflects on the challenges of moving a massive data-centre.
LAB MATTERS2015
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Pathfinding – poetic and practical – was a common theme in blogs from the EMBL network.
LAB MATTERS2014
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Artist Stephen Wright gifts artwork inspired by DNA storage research to EMBL-EBI.
LAB MATTERS2014
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"Thank you, EMBL, for changing my life" – reunion celebrates great science and great scientists
LAB MATTERS2014
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New genomics API allows researchers to share anonymised genetic data seamlessly across platforms.
LAB MATTERS2014
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EMBL scientists regularly receive prestigious awards - meet the latest honourees
LAB MATTERS2014
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A new EMBL-EBI biomedical initiative works to determine the best target proteins for new drugs.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2014
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Teaming up in Ireland to address big challenges in biology
CONNECTIONS2014
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