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24 October 2024 Silhouettes of multicoloured butterflies, mosquitoes, flies, and butterflies against a purple background.

Evaluating the link between chemicals and declining insect populations

Science & Technology Employing a library of more than 1,000 chemicals, EMBL researchers and collaborators investigated how agrochemicals affect insect populations.

2024

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2 December 2020 Dark purple image with flashes of orange, gold, pink and paler purple that look a bit like lightning with a small sun-like image in the upper right section of the image

Dark purple image with flashes of orange, gold, pink and paler purple that look a bit like lightning with a small sun-like image in the upper right section of the image

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative recognises EMBL scientists

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has recognised four EMBL researchers with their most recent awards, showing how tech trailblazers are integral to advancing science and medicine.

2020

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20 September 2018

Promega joins EMBL’s Corporate Partnership Programme

ConnectionsLab Matters EMBL and Promega collaborate to train young scientists

2018

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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

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

2017

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4 October 2017 Jacques Dubochet visiting EMBL in 2015 to receive the inaugural Lennart Philipson Award

Jacques Dubochet awarded Nobel Prize for chemistry

EMBL Announcements EMBL alumnus recognised for cryo-electron microscopy work

2017

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29 September 2017 Photo of Andrew Leach, Head of Chemical Biology data services at EMBL-EBI

Welcome, Andrew Leach

People & Perspectives Q&A with EMBL-EBI's Head of Chemical Biology data services

2017

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15 May 2017 In organoid cultures, mouse residual breast cancer cells have elevated lipid metabolism (green). IMAGE: Jechlinger/EMBL

Cell changes drive breast cancer relapse

Science & Technology Hallmarks of residual breat cancer cells suggest new approaches for preventing relapse

2017

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3 May 2017

Futures: Phosphatases

Science & Technology ERC grantee Maja Köhn shares her vision for the next ten years

2017

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27 April 2017

Illuminating insulin release

Science & Technology EMBL researchers develop an optical method for measuring the release of insulin from single cells

2017

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14 February 2017

Lipids in real time

Science & Technology A new technique developed at EMBL reveals the way fats interact with other molecules in cells

2017

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19 October 2016 Human tumour sections expressing Herceptin (red), an antibody engineered by MultiBacTAG to recognize breast cancer cells. IMAGE: Christine Koehler/EMBL

Human tumour sections expressing Herceptin (red), an antibody engineered by MultiBacTAG to recognize breast cancer cells. IMAGE: Christine Koehler/EMBL

MultiBacTAG: A protein production platform

Science & Technology New platform useful for studies of protein binding, human tissue and more

2016

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20 May 2016 Cell Chemical Biology cover image (cropped) shows an airplane approaching a runway – a metaphor for a new method developed by EMBL scientists.