EMBL's administrative headquarters in the Southern German city of Heidelberg hosts five research units and many of the laboratory's core facilities.
Summary The symposium ‘Genes, cells and embryos in development and evolution: Pere Alberch, 25 years on’ is being organised by scientists from the MELIS department at UPF and EMBL Barcelona and will bring together around 15 speaker
EMBL in Spain 2023 was held in Bilbao on Friday 9 October, hosted at the Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC bioGUNE). More than 100 scientists attended the event, which was hosted and co-organised by EMBL alumni Rosa Barrio, Maria dM V
Every year in October, France celebrates La Fête de la Science – a week of activities to engage with the general public about science and technology. The event was created in 1991 by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research. For more than
The world’s leading public database of biological data for all types of imaging, the BioImage Archive, has introduced a new feature, which enables users to explore images without downloading them. This helps researchers see what a dataset looks like at a
Time-resolved structural biology is an approach that aims at understanding in detail how molecules change their structure over time. While being more challenging than traditional static structural biology, time-resolved structural biology is rapidly devel
EMBL is an intergovernmental organisation with 28 member states. The laboratory also has a strong and deeply valued southern hemisphere connection; Australia has been an EMBL associate member state since 2008. EMBL Australia is a life science network
Scientific research is unveiling the secrets of the universe and helping us fight disease, but at the same time, it can be extremely energy intensive. Research laboratories use up to 10 times more energy per square metre than a typical office. While la
By Dadiana Chiran, International Relations Officer EMBL and Montenegro have enjoyed a constructive and evolving cooperation ever since the country joined as a full member in 2018. Focusing on raising awareness, enhancing links, and expanding collaborat
The development of a complex organism from a single cell demands the precision and coordination of an orchestra performing a symphony. We have come a long way in understanding embryonic development, but there are still many questions surrounding the cr
EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and Google DeepMind proudly present a significant update to the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AlphaFold DB) with new functionalities to make the data more discoverable. AlphaFold DB has expan