Science & Technology 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.
2024
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People & Perspectives 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’.
2024
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EMBL-EBI and colleagues from other 11 institutes commit to pathogen data sharing project.
2024
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Science & Technology An AI-enhanced advanced microscopy approach offers promise in better understanding glioblastomas, one of the deadliest brain cancers.
2024
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Science & Technology EMBL scientists applied molecular engineering to build photoacoustic probes to label and visualise neurons deep within brain tissue.
2024
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Science & Technology 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…
2024
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Where to start when thinking about the sustainability of informatics projects
2023
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EMBLetc Baubak Bajoghli, Director of Austrian Bioimaging/CMI, discusses his passion for imaging and his work straddling basic and applied research in biology.
2023
Users no longer need to download large datasets with the new galleries feature
2023
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Science & Technology 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.
2023
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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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Science & Technology 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.
2023
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People & Perspectives 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.
2023
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Lab MattersScience & Technology 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.
2023
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Science & Technology 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.
2023
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EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Construction begins on EMBL-EBI's new building named after Janet Thornton.
2023
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Lab MattersScience & Technology 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.
2023
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ConnectionsLab Matters Through the collaborative framework agreement, EMBL and ZEISS aim to accelerate the development of imaging technology to advance life science research.
2023
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ConnectionsLab Matters EMBL researchers and collaborators have begun an impactful innovation-development journey, thanks to a European Commission ‘IMAGINE’ grant.
2023
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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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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
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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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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Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives New group leader Thomas Quail studies the fundamental processes that determine how proteins organise the genome inside a cell.
2023
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ConnectionsLab Matters EMBL’s French site was highlighted in a short film presenting its expertise in structural biology research and services.
2023
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Lab MattersScience & Technology Researchers in the Prevedel Group use photoacoustic spectroscopy setup to test and optimise probes before their usage in mouse neuroscience.
2023
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Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Jo McEntyre talks about data services, open data and a new era for research assessment.
2023
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Lab Matters A recent student visitor shares her impressions from visiting EMBL’s Vincent group as we recognise International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
2023
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Lab MattersScience & Technology Mucus present in the mouse colon can be visualised using Alcian blue staining, as imaged here by EMBL predoctoral fellow Linda Decker.
2023
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Researchers have created a tool that maps in previously unseen detail how breast cancer develops and spreads.
2022
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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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NIH BRAIN Initiative to fund brain atlases, network coordination, and knowledge sharing to explore brain function research.
2022
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EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters The Royal Microscopical Society awarded Ardan Patwardhan and Wim Hagen with Scientific Achievement Award
2022
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Connections Visit of delegation from the Ruđer Bošković Institute to EMBL Heidelberg marks a new chapter in scientific and institutional cooperation
2022
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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
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The Royal Microscopical Society recognises Ardan Patwardhan’s contributions to the field of electron microscopy.
2022
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Science & Technology 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
2022
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Lab Matters EMBL’s imaging centre makes advanced microscopy technologies accessible to the international scientific community.
2022
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Science & Technology How do gene expression patterns result in the generation of different cell types? Scientists at EMBL Heidelberg used the zebrafish notochord to find out.
2022
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Connections 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.
2022
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EMBL Announcements Representatives from politics, industry and academia attended the inauguration ceremony at EMBL Heidelberg
2022
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EMBL Announcements 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…
2022
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Science & Technology EMBL’s imaging technology helps researchers gain insights in the fungus’ journey from the lung to the brain.
2022
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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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EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters The new EMBL Imaging Centre has announced its first open user call, and new project evaluation process and training opportunities.
2021
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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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Science & Technology 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.
2021
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Science & Technology 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.
2021
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Science & Technology 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).
2021
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ConnectionsLab Matters The EMBL Imaging Centre is preparing for external user access, after an on-time and on-budget build and handover to the science team.
2021
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Science & Technology 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.
2021
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Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives EMBL group leaders Julia Mahamid, Anna Kreshuk & Jonas Ries awarded Chan Zuckerberg Initiative grant to advance what we see inside cells.
2021
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Science & Technology 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.
2021
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Science & Technology The EMBL Picture of the Week features a series of Jurkat T cells during different stages of the activation process.
2021
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Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives The challenges and opportunities when setting up a global archive for bioimages
2021
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EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters 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.
2020
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Science & Technology 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.
2020
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Lab MattersScience & Technology 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…
2020
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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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Connections EMBL Heidelberg reopens the Cryo-Electron Microscopy Service Platform to support coronavirus structural biology research.
2020
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Science & Technology EMBL is all about exciting science, through which we aim to achieve a fundamental understanding of biological processes.
2020
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Lab Matters EMBL’s Jan Ellenberg reflects on the process of forming a European research infrastructure
2019
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EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EMBL is a collaborator in four of the projects funded in the first phase of ATTRACT.
2019
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Science & Technology EMBL researchers have published two new studies involving the nuclear pore complex
2019
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Science & Technology Enhancers in Drosophila embryos gather together to preserve phenotypes under stressful conditions
2019
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EMBL Announcements EMBL alumna Jennifer Deegan built a prize-winning system for photographing ferns
2019
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People & Perspectives A conversation about art-science collaborations and the importance of drawing in biology.
2019
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Science & Technology A newly developed 3D microscope visualises fast biological processes better than ever.
2019
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Lab Matters Foundation stone ceremony for world-class high-resolution microscopy centre in Heidelberg
2019
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Lab MattersScience & Technology How EMBL scientists are using machine learning to advance biology
2018
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People & Perspectives EMBL alumna Melina Schuh recognised for excellence in science
2018
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Science & Technology Open-source software allows standard microscopes to accurately image 3D structures
2018
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Science & Technology EMBL scientists count and locate chromosomal proteins during cell duplication
2018
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Lab Matters School students build fluorescence microscopes designed by members of the Prevedel group and ELLS
2018
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Science & Technology Access to state-of-the-art microscopes and outstanding expertise
2018
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Science & Technology EMBL researchers uncover how a key enzyme that helps cells make new proteins starts its work
2018
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People & Perspectives EMBL physicist-turned-biologist alumni win 2017 Kendrew and Phillipson awards
2017
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Science & Technology New method for 3D imaging microorganisms lends insight into the creatures that inhabit our oceans
2017
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People & Perspectives The Mahamid group studies meso-scale molecular assemblies in intact cells and model organisms at molecular resolution
2017
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People & Perspectives Jacques Dubochet, Nobel laureate and former EMBL group leader, reflects on a key aha moment
2017
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Science & Technology Inside the Centre for Structural Systems Biology
2017
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ConnectionsLab Matters EMBL and the European synchrotron ESRF extend their Joint Structural Biology Group
2017
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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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Lab Matters German state and federal governments agree funding for microscopy centre at EMBL Heidelberg
2017
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Science & Technology EMBL’s Hiroki Asari investigates how our internal state can change the way our eyes work
2017
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ConnectionsLab Matters Accelerating researchers’ access to next-generation light-sheet microscopy
2017
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EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Spanish government and EMBL sign agreement for new site
2017
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Science & Technology ERC grantee Edward Lemke shares his vision for the next ten years
2017
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Science & Technology ERC grantee Eileen Furlong shares her vision for the next ten years
2017
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Science & Technology EMBL scientists use new techniques to describe the architecture of conical HIV capsids
2016
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Lab MattersScience & Technology How a team of scientists and artists at EMBL transformed microscopy data into stunning 3D images
2016
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People & Perspectives Ernst Stelzer earns 2016 Lennart Philipson award for advances in light sheet microscopy
2016
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Science & Technology Cryo EM reconstruction of RNA Polymerase I reveals details of how molecule binds and transcribes DNA
2016
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Lab Matters Upgraded server room is ready to take the heat at EMBL Grenoble
2016
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People & Perspectives Robert Prevedel develops deep-tissue microscopy for scientists to peer deep inside living organisms
2016
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Connections Participants learn about EMBL’s ocean biodiversity research at the Fall Gala
2016
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Science & Technology Puzzle of nuclear pore formation in growing nuclei solved
2016
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Lab MattersScience & Technology A new repository helps identify emerging trends in data-driven science.
2016
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Science & Technology Storage of pre-made nuclear pores allows for rapid cell division in fruit fly embryos
2016
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Science & Technology Study provides insights into workings of new HIV drugs and how virus becomes resistant
2016
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Science & Technology How EMBL scientists are discovering and understanding the waves and rhythms inside us
2016
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Science & Technology EMBL PhD project puts development in a new light
2016
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Science & Technology 1st real-time video of starfish egg cell eliminating crucial structures, to ensure embryo viability
2016
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Science & Technology New technique uses X-rays to find landmarks when combining fluorescence and electron microscopy
2016
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Science & Technology From initial development to a start-up company: Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy (SPIM) at EMBL.
2015
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Science & Technology New microscope can record the first days of a mouse embryo’s life
2015
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Science & Technology CryoEM solves 3D atomic structure of largest and most elusive RNA polymerase.
2015
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Science & Technology Using lasers to shed light on how tissues get into shape
2015
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Connections "It's like living a review!" Participants of recent super-resolution microscopy course share their highlights
2015
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Science & Technology A journalist who spent six weeks aboard Tara reflects on the expedition’s extraordinary outcomes.
2015
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Behaviour of clathrin proteins, crucial for endocytosis, is clarified using new imaging techniques.
2015
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Detailed structural study shows distantly related viruses share a common machinery for replication.
2015
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Not all embryonic macrophages are the same, and only some are destined to become microglia.
2015
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Unveiling the shape of... the 'molecular bin man' – cryoEM helps reveals p62 polymer in 3D.
2015
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Ground-breaking microscopy technique gives unprecedented insight into endocytosis.
2015
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New fully automated technique enables scientists to chart complex protein networks in living cells.
2015
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Combining three different kinds of microscopy to determine how molecules move during endocytosis.
2015
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How strong does a spindle need to be? Videos put cell’s chromosome-separating machinery to the test
2015
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New microscopy-based method goes beyond gene sequencing, pinpointing the cause of disease.
2015
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A brief history of microscopes, from van Leeuwenhoek to Betzig, Hell and Moerner.
2015
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From using light to control brain activity to illuminating fruit fly development and mice’s sense of touch
2015
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Lab Matters Alumnus Stefan Hell on his 2014 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
2015
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Lab Matters New Christian Boulin Fellowship: 15 awards of up to €1500 for visitors to EMBL’s Core Facilities.
2015
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New group leader Marco Marcia aims to broaden horizons while mapping molecules.
2015
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Lab Matters Announcing winners of the John Kendrew Young Scientist Award, and inaugural Lennart Philipson Award.
2014
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Lab Matters Third round of calls for joint research projects between EMBL and Luxembourg in 2015
2014
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Unprecedented detail in images of mouse neurons thanks to new SNAP-tagging microscopy technique.
2014
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Science & Technology Unprecedented detail on HIV structure continues virus’ string of surprises.
2014
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Science & Technology How Nobel-winning work by alumnus Stefan Hell shapes and inspires current EMBL scientists' research.
2014
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Science & Technology From anemones to starfish, sea creatures are helping understand development, evolution and more.
2014
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Lab Matters Stephen Fuller, from 1981–2000 an EMBL postdoc, group leader then Head of Unit, died on 25 August.
2014
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Science & Technology Evolutionary surprise: notochord likely evolved from muscle, earlier than assumed.
2014
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Science & Technology How fruit flies beat the cold, plus the value of precisely controlled experiments and detailed analysis
2014
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Lab Matters As the Lab turns 40, staff and alumni share 40 things that make EMBL, EMBL
2014
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Science & Technology 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…
2013
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Science & Technology 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,…
2013
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Science & Technology 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…
2012
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Science & Technology 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…
2011
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Science & Technology 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…
2011
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Science & Technology 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…
2010
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Science & Technology 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…
2010
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Science & Technology ‘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…
2009
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Science & Technology 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.…
2008
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Science & Technology 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…
2007
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Science & Technology 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…
2007
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Connections 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…
2005
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