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30 March 2023 Science illustration representing two embryos imaged using the Brillouin microscopy technique. The embryo in the front is a mouse embryo at 20h and the one in the back a Phallusia mammillata embryo. A laser beam crosses the samples to analyse tissue stiffness (here represented by acoustic waves).

Shining light on the mechanics of embryo development

Lab MattersScience & Technology A new microscope built by EMBL researchers, based on Brillouin scattering principles, allows scientists to observe the dynamics of mechanical properties inside developing embryos in real time.

2023

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22 March 2023 Artistic representation that features a long, winding helix joining together a doughnut-figure to a small shaggy ball to indicate the connections long-read sequencing can make about DNA mutations.

The ‘long read’ for cancer

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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15 June 2017 Revathi Nathaniel, UX expert at EMBL-EBI.

UX toolkit aids industry R&D

Science & Technology Exploring the potential of user experience for life sciences through industry workshops

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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13 April 2017 Artist's interpretation of the mouse epigenetic clock.

A race against the ageing clock

Science & Technology EMBL-EBI researchers identify mouse epigenetic clock that could help scientists understand ageing

2017

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2 March 2017

Metabolism matters

Science & Technology Differentiated and undifferentiated cells get energy in different ways, sensor made at EMBL shows

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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27 October 2016

Welcome to EMBL: Robert Prevedel

People & Perspectives Robert Prevedel develops deep-tissue microscopy for scientists to peer deep inside living organisms

2016

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21 April 2016 Giorgia Guglielmi 's PhD project puts development in a new light. PHOTO: EMBL Photolab/Marietta Schupp

Light control

Science & Technology EMBL PhD project puts development in a new light

2016

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21 April 2016 CrystalDirect robot control software: signal from a video camera monitoring the laser working area within a microplate (centre), used to locate the aperture (green trace) and cutting shape (red line), and to select final position of pin tip relative to the crystal (red oval). IMAGE: Zander, U, et al.

Crystals in the beamlight

Science & Technology CrystalDirect, developed at EMBL, automates crystal preparation for X-ray analysis

2016

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21 March 2016

Finding the way with X-Ray

Science & Technology New technique uses X-rays to find landmarks when combining fluorescence and electron microscopy

2016

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14 December 2015 Scientists can now view and track the first days of a mouse embryo’s life. IMAGE: EMBL/ Julius Hossain

Turning point of a lifetime

Science & Technology New microscope can record the first days of a mouse embryo’s life

2015

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19 November 2015 When illuminated with a laser, individual cells (bright yellow) within the fruit fly embryo cannot contract. This novel optogenetic approach helped to get insights into how tissues bend.

Lighting up development

Science & Technology Using lasers to shed light on how tissues get into shape

2015

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2 October 2015 The 1000 Genomes Project: a timeline

A lasting legacy

Science & Technology 1000 Genomes Project pushed technologies and knowledge forward to understand what is 'normal' human genetic variation

2015

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26 August 2015 Hands-on sessions were a crucial part of the course. PHOTO: EMBL Photolab/Marietta Schupp

Super impressions

Connections "It's like living a review!" Participants of recent super-resolution microscopy course share their highlights

2015

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6 April 2015

Bypassing errors

Coin toss inspires CorMap: a new statistical test that sidesteps need for error estimation.

2015

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4 March 2015 Where and when are different molecules contributing to the bending of the membrane? IMAGE: EMBL/A. Picco

Best of three worlds

Combining three different kinds of microscopy to determine how molecules move during endocytosis.

2015

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4 February 2015 The new method helps identify which mutations to a gene actually cause a disease. IMAGE FROM THORMAEHLEN ET AL.

Beyond sequencing

New microscopy-based method goes beyond gene sequencing, pinpointing the cause of disease.

2015

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28 January 2015 Barcoding enables scientists to search for epigenetics tags in many samples at once. IMAGE: MANUEL (CC BY 2.0)

Barcoding epigenetics

New Bar-ChIP method makes it easier to search for epigenetic marks in many samples at once

2015

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27 January 2015 Building blocks TAF8 (blue), TAF10 (green) and TAF2 (not shown) form a module in the cytoplasm before entering the nucleus to form TFIID. IMAGE: EMBL/I.BERGER

Come together

First experimental proof that a key cellular machine forms by uniting pre-assembled modules.

2015

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26 January 2015

Awards & Honours

Lab Matters EMBL scientists regularly receive prestigious awards – meet the latest honourees.

2015

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26 January 2015 ILLUSTRATION: AAD GOUDAPPEL

Cell control in a flash

From using light to control brain activity to illuminating fruit fly development and mice’s sense of touch

2015

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23 January 2015

Turn out the light

Lab Matters Alumnus Stefan Hell on his 2014 Nobel Prize for Chemistry

2015

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9 December 2014 A bundle of nerves that relays information from touch receptors on the skin to the spinal cord and ultimately the brain, imaged with the new technique. IMAGE: EMBL/L.CASTALDI

Delighting in detail

Unprecedented detail in images of mouse neurons thanks to new SNAP-tagging microscopy technique.

2014

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14 November 2014 Participants at an EMBL-Illumina training course. PHOTO: EMBL/M. SCHUPP

Next generation training

First series of training courses jointly organised by EMBL and Illumina is a resounding success.

2014

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20 October 2014

Breaking boundaries

Science & Technology How Nobel-winning work by alumnus Stefan Hell shapes and inspires current EMBL scientists' research.

2014

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17 October 2014 Five-armed starfish

Superstars of science

Science & Technology From anemones to starfish, sea creatures are helping understand development, evolution and more.

2014

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4 August 2014 Explosion on gene motif

On editing the genetic code

Science & Technology Edward Lemke edits special issue of ChemBioChem on boom of technology for genetic code expansion

2014

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17 July 2014

Embracing cellular complexity

Science & Technology Cell biologists "underestimate the complexity" of protein interactions, says Toby Gibson.

2014

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1 July 2014

Nothing but blue skies

Science & Technology Focusing on basic research is crucial for the development of more advanced genetics techniques

2014

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