26 September 2024
Addition of data from more diverse populations to the Polygenic Score (PGS) Catalog and a new software tool for PGS calculation could help produce more equitable disease risk predictions.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2024
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31 July 2024
Study shows that gut bacteria can metabolise carcinogens and cause them to accumulate in distant organs, leading to tumour development.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
7 March 2024
Plasmodium falciparum, a malaria parasite, uses gene conversion to produce genetic diversity in two surface protein genes targeted by the human immune system.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2024
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6 March 2024
An international team of researchers aim to combine social determinants of health with genomics, immune profiling, and exposomics data to tackle cancer inequities at an unprecedented scale.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2024
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1 March 2024
The Federated European Genome-phenome Archive (FEGA) marks a significant milestone with the release of its first datasets.
10 May 2023
The human pangenome – one of the most complete collections of genome sequences released so far – captures rich human diversity.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2023
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11 April 2023
Scientists have the technology to edit the human genome. But when should they, and who contributes to these decisions?
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2023
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9 March 2023
EMBL-EBI researchers use UK Biobank data to uncover new information about rare diseases of the eye.
2023
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30 November 2022
The new group leader in Barcelona aims to understand how cells behave in health and in disease, and approaches her favourite hobby, cooking, very similarly to her work in the lab.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2022
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9 November 2022
Researchers have created a tool that maps in previously unseen detail how breast cancer develops and spreads.
2022
research-highlightsscience
12 August 2022
A new method for the robust analysis of copy number variation and used UK Biobank data to identify links between genome and disease.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2022
research-highlightssciencescience-technology
20 March 2022
Judith Zaugg, Group Leader at EMBL Heidelberg, has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant of €2 million funded under the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme. Over the next five years, the grant will enable her group to study cellular interactions in the human bone…
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS
2022
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19 January 2022
EMBL announces details about its next programme, ‘Molecules to Ecosystems’. It will guide studying life across scales and in context with changing environments.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS
2022
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25 November 2021
Maria Zimmermann-Kogadeeva is one of EMBL’s newest group leaders and a computational biologist whose research group applies computational modelling to better understand the metabolism of gut bacteria and their potential to have far-reaching impacts on other organs.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2021
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1 June 2021
EMBL and the Swedish Science for Life Laboratory sign agreement to advance science together.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS
2021
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