EMBL-EBI’s new building set to support data growth and innovative partnerships
Construction begins on EMBL-EBI's new building named after Janet Thornton.
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EMBL external research community survey
EMBL is conducting an Impact Assessment of our experimental services to understand the value these services have for our external user community. If you have accessed EMBL experimental services at one or more of our facilities to support the conduct of your research, we would like to hear from you.
LAB MATTERS2021
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Induced pluripotent stem cells reveal causes of disease
Scientists in the Stegle group and colleagues have studied induced pluripotent stem cells from around 1,000 donors to identify correlations between individual genetic variants and altered gene expression. They linked more than 4,000 of the genetic variants responsible for altered expression…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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Finding coronavirus’s helper proteins
A team of EMBL scientists and colleagues have analysed how the novel coronavirus affects proteins in human cells. They identified several human proteins as potential drug targets to prevent viral replication.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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Genome sequencing accelerates cancer detection
The Gerstung Group at EMBL-EBI and collaborators have developed a statistical model that analyses genomic data to predict whether a patient has a high or low risk of developing oesophageal cancer.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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Welcome: Geetika Malhotra
The Web Development team provides a central source of web design and development for EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). In July, Geetika Malhotra joined the team as their new Head.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2020
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New clues to a 500-year old mystery about the human heart
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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The curious genome of the tuatara, an ancient reptile in peril
A global team of researchers including the Flicek Team at EMBL-EBI has partnered up with the Māori tribe Ngātiwai to sequence the genome of the tuatara, a rare reptile endemic to New Zealand.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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Welcome: Ellie McDonagh
Open Targets welcomes new Informatics Science Director
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2020
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Distinguishing coronavirus genome mutations from inadvertent errors
EMBL scientists have performed a large-scale analysis of over 4700 SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences. They found that many of the most interesting changes in the SARS-CoV-2 genome that have been reported so far are likely to be technical artefacts, rather than biological mutations.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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Empowering European structural biology
EU funding for iNEXT-Discovery consortium unlocks key technologies for structural biology
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2019
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25 years of EMBL-EBI
EMBL-EBI celebrated its 25 anniversary on 1 September 2019
LAB MATTERS2019
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A colourful day at EMBL-EBI
EMBL is an intergovernmental organisation, currently supported by 26 member states, one prospect and two associate member states. There are more than 1700 people working at EMBL, who come from more than 80 countries, creating a multicultural environment. EMBL also operates from six sites in Europe:…
LAB MATTERS2019
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UK leads European research programme with £10M investment in bioscience data handling capacity
BBSRC has awarded funding to the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), based at Hinxton near Cambridge, to permit a dramatic increase in the institute’s data storage and handling capacity. The funding is the first step in developing the existing…
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