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Tuesday, Jun 25

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An enzyme with a smart friend

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EMBL Grenoble’s Kowalinski Group analysed the structure of an enzyme responsible for modifying tRNA molecules to fine-tune protein production. They discovered that to distinguish almost identical, yet different, tRNA molecules, the enzyme…

Friday, Jun 21

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Welcome: Mallory Freeberg

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The new Team Leader for Human Genomics at EMBL-EBI shares how curiosity and maths shaped her career and what it takes to be a community builder.

Wednesday, Jun 19

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‘Invisible’ protein keeps cancer at bay

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EMBL Hamburg scientists and collaborators discovered a new molecular mechanism in which an unstructured protein disables one of the main cancer-promoting proteins by gluing them into an elongated stack. Data from human patient samples…

Tuesday, Jun 18

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Minecraft-ing our way into studying cell sorting

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A theoretical model involving tiny Minecraft-like cubes can help us understand dynamic biological processes, such as cell sorting in embryos.

Monday, Jun 17

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EMBL’s reflection on the future European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FP10)

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EMBL´s position paper outlines the organisation’s views on the importance of science and how it could be best supported in the context of the upcoming European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FP10).

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TREC in Italy – sampling from coast to coast

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For almost two months, Italy was the stage for the TREC expedition, with a rich programme of events organised across the country attended by the public, scientists, schools, and high-level political stakeholders, including Minister of…

Thursday, Jun 13

Ancient environmental DNA provides solutions for global food security challenges

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Researchers explore genetic diversity found in ancient environmental DNA to help modern agricultural practices.

Wednesday, Jun 12

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Looking back: EMBL in the 1970s and 1980s

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A special Coffee with EMBL session celebrated EMBL’s 50th anniversary by inviting alumni to reflect on the organisation’s first two decades.

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AI approaches in structural biology and drug discovery

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EMBL Grenoble and the ESRF hosted a workshop bringing together representatives from research and industry to discuss the ever-growing role of artificial intelligence in the field of structural biology.

Monday, Jun 10

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IntAct reaches 1.5 million binary interaction evidences

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IntAct 247 release is now public with over 1.5 million binary interaction evidences

Friday, Jun 7

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Case study: Discovering new enzymes to upcycle food waste

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EMBL-EBI data resource helps scientists upcycle animal by-products.

Thursday, Jun 6

Structure and function of new lysosome transporter revealed

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The group of Christian Löw at EMBL Hamburg and CSSB, and collaborators from the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel and CNRS & Université Paris Cité worked together to reveal the structure and function of a previously unknown lysosome…

Wednesday, Jun 5

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The EMBL-EBI File Replication Archive hits 100 petabytes

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A behind-the-scenes look at EMBL-EBI's in-house archive that supports major open data resources and ingests record amounts of data

Thursday, May 30

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We are EMBL: Elise Bralet on the importance of connecting people

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Elise talks about her role in supporting EMBL Grenoble staff in daily human resources matters and the multiple events she’s been involved in to connect people, both at and outside of work.

Wednesday, May 29

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12 moments of philanthropy: #5 Friends of EMBL

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Starting in 2014, Friends of EMBL engages a diverse range of individuals to support and connect with EMBL research. Through unique events and philanthropic contributions, members play a vital role in fostering a stronger bond between EMBL…

Tuesday, May 28

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Genetic mosaicism more common than thought

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Blood stem cells from healthy people carry major chromosomal alterations, a study in Nature Genetics by researchers at the Max Delbrück Center and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) finds. The discovery suggests that we are…

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DECIPHER v11.26 release

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The latest DECIPHER release includes AlphaMissense scores, links to the Open Targets Platform and more.

Monday, May 27

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We are EMBL: Elise Bralet on the importance of connecting people

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Elise talks about her role in supporting EMBL Grenoble staff in daily human resources matters and the multiple events she’s been involved in to connect people, both at and outside of work.

Friday, May 24

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Stephen Cusack: what I’ve learned

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Stephen Cusack, world-renowned structural biologist and former Head of EMBL Grenoble, reflects on his early influences, his achievements, and the lessons he’s learned as he embarks on his next adventure

Thursday, May 23

Predicting cancer risk on the basis of national health data

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Large-scale study uses data from Danish health registries to predict individual risks of developing cancer

Wednesday, May 22

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Exploring diversity in cell division

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New research by EMBL scientists shows how different modes of cell division used by animals and fungi might have evolved to support diverse life cycles.

Tuesday, May 21

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AlphaMissense data integrated into Ensembl, UniProt, DECIPHER and AlphaFold DB

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The integration enables researchers to easily access AI-generated scores estimating how likely genetic variants are to be pathogenic

Monday, May 20

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Calling data resource users: we need your feedback

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EMBL-EBI asks users to fill in a services survey to help shape the future of the open data resources managed by the institute

Friday, May 17

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Expression Atlas 40 released

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The latest Expression Atlas 40 release is now live, containing new RNA-seq datasets, including a featured experiment resulting from a collaboration with Genotype Tissue Expression (GTEx) project as well as new proteomics data derived from…

Thursday, May 16

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Welcome: Julio Saez-Rodriguez

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EMBL-EBI's new Head of Research shares his plans and priorities.

Tuesday, May 14

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What I’ve learned: Toby Gibson

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Toby Gibson reflects on 38 years at EMBL, the scientific tools he built along the way, and the state of science today.

Monday, May 13

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Ensembl 112 has been released

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Ensembl 112 and the corresponding release of Ensembl Genomes 59 has released. This includes exciting new fish species, many more drosophila species and new VEP updates.

Thursday, May 9

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An epigenome editing toolkit to dissect the mechanisms of gene regulation

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A study from the Hackett group at EMBL Rome led to the development of an epigenetic editing system that allows to precisely program chromatin modifications at any specific position in the genome, to understand their causal role in…

Tuesday, May 7

We are EMBL: María Cerezo on balancing two roles and one of EMBL’s proudest achievements

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María Cerezo talks about her role as Scientific Curator, how she combines it with her position as co-chair of the Staff Association, and what she believes has been EMBL's biggest achievement in its first 50 years.

Thursday, May 2

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Changes to EMBL-EBI’s Senior Management Team

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EMBL-EBI's Senior Management Team announces new appointment and title changes.