A new EMBL microscope hits the road
The Prevedel group at EMBL Heidelberg developed a mobile microscope: miniature in scale, fast in sample imaging, and giant in resolution.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2024
science-technology
Beginning a PhD at warp speed
Kristaps Krims-Dāvis spent a month at EMBL Heidelberg getting a crash course in cutting-edge microscopy.
CONNECTIONS2024
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EMBL and Nikon launch tech development partnership for next-generation research
EMBL and Nikon have formally broadened their partnership to accelerate development of next-generation microscopy technologies.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS2024
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Seeing is understanding
Imaging lets us observe biology in action – it makes visible the hidden processes of life. From its founding, EMBL has been a centre of breakthroughs and developments in bioimaging, and it continues to play a pioneering role in this field today.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2024
science-technology
We are EMBL: Daniele Ancora on improving microscopes and his ‘obsession’ with fixing things
Daniele Ancora is an ARISE fellow in the Light Imaging Facility at EMBL Rome. With a background in theoretical physics, he develops algorithms to improve image-based omics technologies. Learn about his interdisciplinary training and his little ‘obsessions’.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2024
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Funding awarded to develop a global Pathogen Data Network
EMBL-EBI and colleagues from other 11 institutes commit to pathogen data sharing project.
2024
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Follow the cellular road
An AI-enhanced advanced microscopy approach offers promise in better understanding glioblastomas, one of the deadliest brain cancers.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2024
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Seeing into the depths
EMBL scientists applied molecular engineering to build photoacoustic probes to label and visualise neurons deep within brain tissue.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2024
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Ancient ‘relaxant-inflammatory’ response gets sponges moving
Sponges lack muscles and neurons. Yet, they make coordinated movements. Scientists at EMBL Heidelberg have discovered that sponge movement is controlled by an ancient ‘relaxant-inflammatory’ response that is also present in vertebrate blood vessels. The findings shed light on sponge physiology…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2024
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Starting is easy, sustaining is hard
Where to start when thinking about the sustainability of informatics projects
2023
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Impact of access to imaging technologies on scientific achievements
Baubak Bajoghli, Director of Austrian Bioimaging/CMI, discusses his passion for imaging and his work straddling basic and applied research in biology.
EMBLetc2023
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: Creating an artificial uterus
EMBL researchers have created an engineered uterus that allows a closer look at a mouse embryo’s development and its interactions with the uterine environment.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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Spotlight: Seeing into the seas
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.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
sciencescience-technology
Global guidelines to improve the quality of microscopy images in scientific publications
A working group of researchers from the QUAREP-LiMi initiative has developed global guidelines to improve the quality of microscopy data and images published in scientific publications.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
sciencescience-technology
After EMBL: Sergiy Avilov
Ukrainian scientist Sergiy Avilov uses the microscopy skills and scientific network he built at EMBL in his current role heading the Imaging Facility at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2023
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Imaging-based spatial-omics: EMBO Practical Course at EMBL Rome
The first EMBO Practical Course on imaging-based spatial-omics was organised at EMBL Rome to explore the latest techniques to visualise RNA transcripts and proteins in their native tissues.
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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A glimpse into the hexasome: 40 years on
Research from the Eustermann group at EMBL Heidelberg reveals how the packaging of DNA into hexasomes impacts the function of enzymes involved in gene regulation.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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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.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2023
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Spotlight: Shedding light on deadly parasites
This single-celled organism the size of a dust particle is capable of causing deadly tropical diseases in both humans and livestock –Trypanosoma brucei, in an image by Luciano Dolce from EMBL.
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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EMBL and ZEISS enter long-term strategic partnership
Through the collaborative framework agreement, EMBL and ZEISS aim to accelerate the development of imaging technology to advance life science research.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2023
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IMAGINE-ing next-generation technology to help biologists
EMBL researchers and collaborators have begun an impactful innovation-development journey, thanks to a European Commission ‘IMAGINE’ grant.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2023
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Managing a bioinformatics core facility
BioImage Archive Team Leader Matthew Hartley shares his experience and tips for people interested in managing a bioinformatics core facility.
2023
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Visualising biology: new tools of the trade
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.
EMBLetc2023
Dispensing microscopy expertise
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…
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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Shining light on the mechanics of embryo development
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.
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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Welcome: Thomas Quail
New group leader Thomas Quail studies the fundamental processes that determine how proteins organise the genome inside a cell.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2023
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EMBL Grenoble showcased at Biophysical Society Meeting
EMBL’s French site was highlighted in a short film presenting its expertise in structural biology research and services.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2023
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Spotlight: Using light and sound to see into the brain
Researchers in the Prevedel Group use photoacoustic spectroscopy setup to test and optimise probes before their usage in mouse neuroscience.
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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Molecules to Ecosystems: Jo McEntyre on data services
Jo McEntyre talks about data services, open data and a new era for research assessment.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2023
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Scientific passion that seeds passion
A recent student visitor shares her impressions from visiting EMBL’s Vincent group as we recognise International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
LAB MATTERS2023
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Spotlight: Colours of the colon
Mucus present in the mouse colon can be visualised using Alcian blue staining, as imaged here by EMBL predoctoral fellow Linda Decker.
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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New molecular microscopy uncovers how breast cancer spreads
Researchers have created a tool that maps in previously unseen detail how breast cancer develops and spreads.
2022
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AI4LIFE: AI models for bioimaging
Researchers across EMBL are helping to make artificial intelligence (AI) models for bioimaging analysis interoperable and openly available to the scientific community.
2022
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Mapping the human brain: a global collaboration
NIH BRAIN Initiative to fund brain atlases, network coordination, and knowledge sharing to explore brain function research.
2022
announcementsscience
Ardan Patwardhan and Wim Hagen receive Scientific Achievement Award
The Royal Microscopical Society awarded Ardan Patwardhan and Wim Hagen with Scientific Achievement Award
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2022
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EMBL deepens ties with Croatia
Visit of delegation from the Ruđer Bošković Institute to EMBL Heidelberg marks a new chapter in scientific and institutional cooperation
CONNECTIONS2022
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Light-Seq: from images to sequences in context
Researchers have combined advanced light microscopy with next-generation sequencing to create a method to study cells directly in the context of their native tissues
2022
science
Ardan Patwardhan receives Scientific Achievement Award
The Royal Microscopical Society recognises Ardan Patwardhan’s contributions to the field of electron microscopy.
2022
announcements
Does exercise drive development? In the sea anemone, the way you move matters.
The latest research from EMBL’s Ikmi group employs interdisciplinary approaches to show how sea anemone ‘exercise’ changes their developing size and shape, uncovering an intimate relationship between behaviour and body development
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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Spotlight: EMBL Imaging Centre, Heidelberg
EMBL’s imaging centre makes advanced microscopy technologies accessible to the international scientific community.
LAB MATTERS2022
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Making patterns visible
How do gene expression patterns result in the generation of different cell types? Scientists at EMBL Heidelberg used the zebrafish notochord to find out.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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The EMBL Imaging Centre: making it happen
Creating a cutting-edge facility for the global life science community doesn't happen overnight. We spoke to some of those who worked to turn this dream into a reality.
CONNECTIONS2022
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Official opening of the EMBL Imaging Centre
Representatives from politics, industry and academia attended the inauguration ceremony at EMBL Heidelberg
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS2022
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Enabling imaging across scales
EMBL’s first Imaging Centre Symposium will occur onsite at EMBL and include tours of the new Imaging Centre on 31 May, introducing participants to the facility and its staff and featuring talks on the rapid developments in imaging technologies that have led to notable biological and medical…
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS2022
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Putting Cryptococcus in context
EMBL’s imaging technology helps researchers gain insights in the fungus’ journey from the lung to the brain.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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EMBL Imaging Centre kickstarts training with workshop for undergraduates
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.
LAB MATTERS2022
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EMBL Imaging Centre launches first open call for users
The new EMBL Imaging Centre has announced its first open user call, and new project evaluation process and training opportunities.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2021
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A cellular atlas of an entire worm
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.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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New microscopy technique makes deep in vivo brain imaging possible
Scientists in EMBL’s Prevedel Group have developed a pioneering microscopy technique that allows researchers to observe cells hidden within opaque tissues, such as live neurons embedded deep in the brain.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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The secret life of baby octopuses
Some of the most amazing creatures live in the deep blue sea. The Mesoscopic Imaging Facility (MIF) at EMBL Barcelona was recently involved in studying one unique feature of the octopus: the ephemeral structures on the surface of their skin called Kölliker’s organs.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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Artificial neural networks revolutionise biological image analysis
Packaged for simple installation and free use, the novel method DECODE enables researchers to reduce imaging times and increase localisation density in single-molecule localisation microscopy (SMLM).
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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New life science Imaging Centre preparing for user access
The EMBL Imaging Centre is preparing for external user access, after an on-time and on-budget build and handover to the science team.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2021
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Starlet sea anemone
EMBL PhD student Anniek Stokkermans captured this side view of a Nematostella vectensis larva during this transition, using instrumentation in the Advanced Light Microscopy Facility at EMBL Heidelberg.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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Illuminating protein complexes in cells
EMBL group leaders Julia Mahamid, Anna Kreshuk & Jonas Ries awarded Chan Zuckerberg Initiative grant to advance what we see inside cells.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2021
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Dream team
At EMBL, we have many dream teams – groups of individuals who support each other, innovate, and work together. One of those dream teams bridges two core facilities at EMBL Rome.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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Cellular fireball or immune cells?
The EMBL Picture of the Week features a series of Jurkat T cells during different stages of the activation process.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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Welcome: Matthew Hartley
The challenges and opportunities when setting up a global archive for bioimages
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2021
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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative recognises EMBL scientists
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.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2020
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Party at the nucleus?
The nucleus of this cell fluoresces in bright green thanks to GFP-labelled nucleoporin proteins. EMBL scientists use engineered nucleoporins as 3D reference standards to improve super-resolution microscopy.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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Beyond the lens – microscopy at EMBL Rome
Research facilities play a crucial role in the advancement of science by supporting scientists with specialised expertise and state-of-the-art equipment. The Microscopy Facility at EMBL Rome exemplifies this role by making a wide variety of light microscopy technologies available to its researchers…
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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Taking a closer look at infected cells to better understand COVID-19
EMBL electron microscopy specialists collaborate with researchers from Heidelberg University Hospital to understand the changes occurring in cell structures upon SARS-CoV-2 infection.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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Supporting international research on the structure of the coronavirus
EMBL Heidelberg reopens the Cryo-Electron Microscopy Service Platform to support coronavirus structural biology research.
CONNECTIONS2020
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Exciting science!
EMBL is all about exciting science, through which we aim to achieve a fundamental understanding of biological processes.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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Building Euro-BioImaging
EMBL’s Jan Ellenberg reflects on the process of forming a European research infrastructure
LAB MATTERS2019
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ATTRACT: funding innovation in imaging
EMBL is a collaborator in four of the projects funded in the first phase of ATTRACT.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2019
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New perspectives on nuclear pores
EMBL researchers have published two new studies involving the nuclear pore complex
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2019
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Transcriptional hubs confer phenotypic robustness
Enhancers in Drosophila embryos gather together to preserve phenotypes under stressful conditions
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2019
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Fun with fern photography
EMBL alumna Jennifer Deegan built a prize-winning system for photographing ferns
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS2019
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Drawing knowledge
A conversation about art-science collaborations and the importance of drawing in biology.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2019
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New 3D microscope
A newly developed 3D microscope visualises fast biological processes better than ever.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2019
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Foundation stone laid for EMBL Imaging Centre
Foundation stone ceremony for world-class high-resolution microscopy centre in Heidelberg
LAB MATTERS2019
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An in silico hope for biology: machine learning
How EMBL scientists are using machine learning to advance biology
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2018
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Melina Schuh receives EMBO Gold Medal
EMBL alumna Melina Schuh recognised for excellence in science
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2018
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New software makes 3D imaging accessible
Open-source software allows standard microscopes to accurately image 3D structures
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2018
sciencescience-technology
Counting condensins on chromosomes
EMBL scientists count and locate chromosomal proteins during cell duplication
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2018
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Science in a suitcase
School students build fluorescence microscopes designed by members of the Prevedel group and ELLS
LAB MATTERS2018
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New cryo-EM service at EMBL Heidelberg
Access to state-of-the-art microscopes and outstanding expertise
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2018
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Pol III enzyme grips DNA and begins reading fast
EMBL researchers uncover how a key enzyme that helps cells make new proteins starts its work
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2018
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A physical revolution
EMBL physicist-turned-biologist alumni win 2017 Kendrew and Phillipson awards
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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New technique for imaging the life aquatic
New method for 3D imaging microorganisms lends insight into the creatures that inhabit our oceans
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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Welcome: Julia Mahamid
The Mahamid group studies meso-scale molecular assemblies in intact cells and model organisms at molecular resolution
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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A curious case of serendipity
Jacques Dubochet, Nobel laureate and former EMBL group leader, reflects on a key aha moment
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
alumnipeople-perspectives
CSSB: A new approach to infectious disease
Inside the Centre for Structural Systems Biology
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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EMBL and ESRF renew collaboration agreement
EMBL and the European synchrotron ESRF extend their Joint Structural Biology Group
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2017
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Supercool structures: new cryo-EM facility
As a new cryo-EM facility is inaugurated, EMBL’s Michael Hons describes his role in the project
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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Funding agreed for imaging centre
German state and federal governments agree funding for microscopy centre at EMBL Heidelberg
LAB MATTERS2017
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Senses: What you see is how you feel
EMBL’s Hiroki Asari investigates how our internal state can change the way our eyes work
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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EMBL spin-off Luxendo acquired by Bruker
Accelerating researchers’ access to next-generation light-sheet microscopy
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2017
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EMBL to open new site in Barcelona
Spanish government and EMBL sign agreement for new site
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2017
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Futures: The dark proteome
ERC grantee Edward Lemke shares his vision for the next ten years
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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Futures: Genome regulation
ERC grantee Eileen Furlong shares her vision for the next ten years
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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Structure of HIV capsid within virus visualised
EMBL scientists use new techniques to describe the architecture of conical HIV capsids
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2016
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Capturing life in perspective
How a team of scientists and artists at EMBL transformed microscopy data into stunning 3D images
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2016
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Thinking in 3D
Ernst Stelzer earns 2016 Lennart Philipson award for advances in light sheet microscopy
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2016
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New insights into RNA Polymerase I
Cryo EM reconstruction of RNA Polymerase I reveals details of how molecule binds and transcribes DNA
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2016
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Big data, cool servers
Upgraded server room is ready to take the heat at EMBL Grenoble
LAB MATTERS2016
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Welcome to EMBL: Robert Prevedel
Robert Prevedel develops deep-tissue microscopy for scientists to peer deep inside living organisms
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2016
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Diving into Autumn
Participants learn about EMBL’s ocean biodiversity research at the Fall Gala
CONNECTIONS2016
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Watching nuclear pores in growing nuclei
Puzzle of nuclear pore formation in growing nuclei solved
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2016
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BioStudies: The Data Bento Box
A new repository helps identify emerging trends in data-driven science.
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2016
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Life in the periphery
Storage of pre-made nuclear pores allows for rapid cell division in fruit fly embryos
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2016
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How new HIV drugs lock virus in immaturity
Study provides insights into workings of new HIV drugs and how virus becomes resistant
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2016
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The rhythms in life
How EMBL scientists are discovering and understanding the waves and rhythms inside us
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2016
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Light control
EMBL PhD project puts development in a new light
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2016
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Mothers and daughters
1st real-time video of starfish egg cell eliminating crucial structures, to ensure embryo viability
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2016
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Finding the way with X-Ray
New technique uses X-rays to find landmarks when combining fluorescence and electron microscopy
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2016
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SPIM doctors
From initial development to a start-up company: Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy (SPIM) at EMBL.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2015
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Turning point of a lifetime
New microscope can record the first days of a mouse embryo’s life
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2015
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Pol III: Completing the family album
CryoEM solves 3D atomic structure of largest and most elusive RNA polymerase.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2015
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Lighting up development
Using lasers to shed light on how tissues get into shape
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2015
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Super impressions
"It's like living a review!" Participants of recent super-resolution microscopy course share their highlights
CONNECTIONS2015
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An ocean odyssey
A journalist who spent six weeks aboard Tara reflects on the expedition’s extraordinary outcomes.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2015
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Decades-old cell biology puzzle solved
Behaviour of clathrin proteins, crucial for endocytosis, is clarified using new imaging techniques.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2015
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It runs in the family
Detailed structural study shows distantly related viruses share a common machinery for replication.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2015
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Destined for the brain
Not all embryonic macrophages are the same, and only some are destined to become microglia.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2015
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Taking out the trash
Unveiling the shape of... the 'molecular bin man' – cryoEM helps reveals p62 polymer in 3D.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2015
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How cells have got molecules surrounded
Ground-breaking microscopy technique gives unprecedented insight into endocytosis.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2015
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No humans required
New fully automated technique enables scientists to chart complex protein networks in living cells.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2015
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Best of three worlds
Combining three different kinds of microscopy to determine how molecules move during endocytosis.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2015
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Under pressure
How strong does a spindle need to be? Videos put cell’s chromosome-separating machinery to the test
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2015
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Beyond sequencing
New microscopy-based method goes beyond gene sequencing, pinpointing the cause of disease.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2015
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Miraculous microscopes: a brief history
A brief history of microscopes, from van Leeuwenhoek to Betzig, Hell and Moerner.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2015
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Cell control in a flash
From using light to control brain activity to illuminating fruit fly development and mice’s sense of touch
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2015
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Turn out the light
Alumnus Stefan Hell on his 2014 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
LAB MATTERS2015
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Christian Boulin Fellowship
New Christian Boulin Fellowship: 15 awards of up to €1500 for visitors to EMBL’s Core Facilities.
LAB MATTERS2015
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Welcome: Marco Marcia
New group leader Marco Marcia aims to broaden horizons while mapping molecules.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2015
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Alumni awards
Announcing winners of the John Kendrew Young Scientist Award, and inaugural Lennart Philipson Award.
LAB MATTERS2014
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Luxembourg collaboration
Third round of calls for joint research projects between EMBL and Luxembourg in 2015
LAB MATTERS2014
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Delighting in detail
Unprecedented detail in images of mouse neurons thanks to new SNAP-tagging microscopy technique.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2014
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Same pieces, different picture
Unprecedented detail on HIV structure continues virus’ string of surprises.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2014
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Breaking boundaries
How Nobel-winning work by alumnus Stefan Hell shapes and inspires current EMBL scientists' research.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2014
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Superstars of science
From anemones to starfish, sea creatures are helping understand development, evolution and more.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2014
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Obituary: Stephen Fuller
Stephen Fuller, from 1981–2000 an EMBL postdoc, group leader then Head of Unit, died on 25 August.
LAB MATTERS2014
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From worm muscle to spinal discs
Evolutionary surprise: notochord likely evolved from muscle, earlier than assumed.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2014
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Clarity in the cold
How fruit flies beat the cold, plus the value of precisely controlled experiments and detailed analysis
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2014
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Forty things that make EMBL – Part 2
As the Lab turns 40, staff and alumni share 40 things that make EMBL, EMBL
LAB MATTERS2014
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Potential new drug target for cystic fibrosis
Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg and Regensburg University, both in Germany, and the University of Lisboa, in Portugal, have discovered a promising potential drug target for cystic fibrosis. Their work, published online today in Cell, also uncovers a…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2013
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How to build your gate
It’s a parent’s nightmare: opening a Lego set and being faced with 500 pieces, but no instructions on how to assemble them into the majestic castle shown on the box. Thanks to a new approach by scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany,…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2013
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Export extravaganza
Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, have conducted the first comprehensive census of human cells’ export workers. In a study published online today in Nature Cell Biology, they found an unexpected variety of genes involved in transporting…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2012
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Live from the scene: biochemistry in action
Researchers can now watch molecules move in living cells, literally millisecond by millisecond, thanks to a new microscope developed by scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany. Published online today in Nature Biotechnology, the new technique provides…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2011
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Intelligent microscopy
The sight of a researcher sitting at a microscope for hours, painstakingly searching for the right cells, may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to new software created by scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany. Presented today in Nature Methods, the…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2011
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One-touch make-up – for our cells
The cells in the different parts of this video are always the same (grey), but, like actors using make-up to highlight different facial features, they have fluorescent labels that mark different cellular components in different colours: blue shows the nucleus, yellow shows tubulin (a component of…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2010
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Movies for the human genome
Name a human gene, and you’ll find a movie online showing you what happens to cells when it is switched off. This is the resource that researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, and their collaborators in the Mitocheck consortium are making freely…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2010
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Picture Release
‘Useless fish with big eyes’. This is what Medaka, the name of the Japanese killifish in the pictures, means in Japan where it originally comes from. While its eyes are undeniably big, the fish has proven remarkably useful for scientists. It is a simple model organism, amenable to…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2009
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What at the first sight could be pictures of planets or other cosmic structures are actually microscope images of balls (cysts) of human kidney cells. They were taken by Emmanuel Reynaud, in the group of Ernst Stelzer at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), with a widefield microscope.…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2008
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A matter of force
When a cell divides, normally the result is two identical daughter cells. In some cases however, cell division leads to two cells with different properties. This is called asymmetric cell division and plays an important role in embryonic development and the self-renewal of stem cells. Researchers…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2007
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A clearer view on biology
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) has developed a new computational tool that makes images obtained with cutting-edge microscopes even sharper. The technological advance and its applications are published in this week’s online issue of the journal Nature Methods. Since the…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2007
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The transparent organism
A novel high-tech microscope will be brought to the marketplace, giving laboratories everywhere fascinating new insights into living organisms. EMBLEM Technology Transfer GmbH (EMBLEM), the commercial entity of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), announced today that it has signed a…
CONNECTIONS2005
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