Welcome: Kyle Morris
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Kyle Morris joins EMBL-EBI as Electron Microscopy Data Bank (EMDB) Team Leader.
2024
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Five takeaways from ‘Seeing is believing’ in 2023
Science & Technology A recent EMBO | EMBL symposium brought together leading developers of imaging methods with cutting-edge applications that illustrate how imaging can answer biological questions.
2023
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BioImage Archive democratises access to microscopy data
Users no longer need to download large datasets with the new galleries feature
2023
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Spotlight: Seeing into the seas
Science & Technology A new method developed by EMBL scientists can help us identify and investigate plankton species in field samples with greater speed, accuracy, and resolution than ever possible before.
2023
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Visualising biology: new tools of the trade
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
Dispensing microscopy expertise
Lab MattersScience & Technology Home to some of Europe’s most cutting-edge tools in molecular biology, EMBL has long shared its expertise and access to these tools through an extensive repertoire of courses, conferences, seminars, and other training. And now included in this mix is a job shadowing programme at EMBL Imaging…
2023
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EMBL Imaging Centre kickstarts training with workshop for undergraduates
Lab Matters The new EMBL Imaging Centre held its first on-site training workshop, introducing undergraduate students to the basics of volume electron microscopy. This marks the first of many opportunities to aid capacity-building in imaging techniques in Europe.
2022
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Solving molecular puzzles to find the perfect fit
Science & Technology Using cryo-EM and structural biology techniques, EMBL researchers have shown how two proteins of Legionella pneumophila interact. This finding sheds light on a mechanism critical to the infection process and could lead to the development of new drugs to treat pneumonia.
2021
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A gallery of human RNA polymerases
Science & Technology New structural biology research provides fundamental information critical to understanding enzyme mutations connected to rare diseases and cancers.
2021
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More than a gut reaction
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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A cellular atlas of an entire worm
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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Cryo-Electron Microscopy Service Platform supports research on protein transport
Lab MattersScience & Technology Giulia Zanetti from the Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology (ISMB) in London explains how the collaboration with the Cryo-Electron Microscopy Service Platform enabled her group to reveal the structure of protein transport complexes.
2021
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Welcome: Matthew Hartley
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives The challenges and opportunities when setting up a global archive for bioimages
2021
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Cell under attack
Science & Technology It’s almost a year since the coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic, affecting all our lives. While the virus continues its grip on the world, scientists are understanding it better and better, increasing our knowledge about it and opening up new ways to fight it.
2021
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Welcome: Timo Zimmermann
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives The EMBL Imaging Centre is scheduled to open in 2021 with Timo Zimmermann as Team Leader for advanced light microscopy technology development and service provision.
2021
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Replication cycle of SARS-CoV-2 in 3D
Science & Technology Researchers have studied SARS-CoV-2 replication in cells and obtained detailed insights into the alterations induced in infected cells. This information is essential to guide the development of urgently needed therapeutic strategies for suppressing viral replication and induced pathology.
2020
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A bloom of crystals
Science & Technology How does your crystal garden grow? EMBL's Electron Microscopy Core Facility was able to capture this garden of blooming crystals as they studied mosquito reproductive cells.
2020
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Royal Microscopical Society award for Yannick Schwab
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives The Head of the Electron Microscopy Core Facility at EMBL Heidelberg receives Mid-Career Scientific Achievement Award 2020
2020
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Welcome: Simone Mattei
Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives The new team leader offering services in electron microscopy discusses his hopes and plans for the forthcoming EMBL Imaging Centre
2020
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Taking a closer look at infected cells to better understand COVID-19
Science & Technology EMBL electron microscopy specialists collaborate with researchers from Heidelberg University Hospital to understand the changes occurring in cell structures upon SARS-CoV-2 infection.
2020
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Actin crosslinking plays key role in tissue morphogenesis
Science & Technology New insights into mechanisms behind embryonic development
2019
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Breaking the bottleneck in imaging data collection
Science & Technology Scientists develop software tools for automated acquisition of electron microscopy data
2019
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ARP/wARP 8.0 released
Lab MattersScience & Technology Researchers at EMBL Hamburg have released the next generation of their ARP/wARP software
2018
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EMBL’s first wetlab e-learning courses go live
EMBL Announcements EMBL’s training programme launches its first e-learning courses: introductions to optogenetics and CLEM
2018
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Pol III enzyme grips DNA and begins reading fast
Science & Technology EMBL researchers uncover how a key enzyme that helps cells make new proteins starts its work
2018
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One way crossing across the midline
Science & Technology EMBL researchers solve a decades-long debate on a key process for brain and embryo-development
2018
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Futures: Unravelling influenza
Science & Technology ERC grantee Stephen Cusack shares his vision for the next ten years
2017
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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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Cells grow pores from shrinking holes
Science & Technology New research shows how pores form in the membrane that surrounds a cell’s nucleus
2017
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A curious case of serendipity
People & Perspectives Jacques Dubochet, Nobel laureate and former EMBL group leader, reflects on a key aha moment
2017
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CSSB: A new approach to infectious disease
Science & Technology Inside the Centre for Structural Systems Biology
2017
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EMBL and ESRF renew collaboration agreement
ConnectionsLab Matters EMBL and the European synchrotron ESRF extend their Joint Structural Biology Group
2017
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Supercool structures: new cryo-EM facility
Science & Technology As a new cryo-EM facility is inaugurated, EMBL’s Michael Hons describes his role in the project
2017
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Jacques Dubochet awarded Nobel Prize for chemistry
EMBL Announcements EMBL alumnus recognised for cryo-electron microscopy work
2017
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40 years of electron microscopy training at EMBL
Lab Matters Celebrating 40 years since the first EMBO electron microscopy training course
2017
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Structure of key system for TB infection
Science & Technology EMBL scientists add crucial knowledge to understanding of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis
2017
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Welcome: Wojciech Galej
People & Perspectives New group leader Wojciech Galej investigates RNA-protein complexes involved in gene expression
2017
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New insights into RNA Polymerase I
Science & Technology Cryo EM reconstruction of RNA Polymerase I reveals details of how molecule binds and transcribes DNA
2016
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Supporting the bioimaging revolution
Science & Technology Commentary in Nature Methods introduces the EMPIAR resource and gives glimpse of future developments
2016
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Building an EMPIAR
Science & Technology EMPIAR lets researchers take a closer look at the images used to build 3D molecular structures.
2014
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Membrane-coat proteins: bacteria have them too
Science & Technology Although they are present almost everywhere, on land and sea, a group of related bacteria in the superphylum Planctomycetes-Verrucomicrobia-Chlamydiae, or PVC, have remained in relative obscurity ever since they were first described about a decade ago. Scientists at the European Molecular Biology…
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