General, 18 January 2021 EMBL courses and conferences: learning lessons and looking ahead The coronavirus pandemic has created unprecedented challenges for those trying to organise scientific courses and conferences. As the scale of the disruption first became clear, EMBL moved quickly to ensure that its events could still go ahead. more

Heidelberg, 18 January 2021 Welcome: Timo Zimmermann The EMBL Imaging Centre is scheduled to open in 2021 with Timo Zimmermann as Team Leader for advanced light microscopy technology development and service provision. more

Heidelberg, 15 January 2021 Welcome: Olivier Duss A new EMBL group leader will explore how RNA folds into functional structures and how it works with proteins to control activities in cells. more

Hamburg, 14 January 2021 Toadlet peptide transforms into a deadly weapon against bacteria Researchers at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and EMBL Hamburg have discovered remarkable molecular properties of an antimicrobial peptide from the skin of the Australian toadlet. The discovery could inspire the development of novel synthetic drugs to combat bacterial infections more

Heidelberg, Grenoble, Hamburg, 12 January 2021 EMBL becomes newest Instruct Centre A major advance for structural biology provision within Europe has been achieved as Instruct-ERIC and EMBL join forces to launch the Instruct Centre EMBL. more

Hinxton, 5 January 2021 Opinion: Scientific disagreements aren’t new to COVID Understanding why disagreement is good for COVID science. EMBL’s newest blog offers tips for sorting through the discourse. more

Heidelberg, 4 January 2021 In kefir, microbial teamwork makes the dream work Researchers discovered the dominant species of bacteria in kefir grains cannot endure without other species that help the 'team' survive. more

Rome, 21 December 2020 How EMBL alumni created a groundbreaking vaccine technology A group of Italian EMBL alumni developed a key technology behind some of the most promising COVID-19 vaccines more

Heidelberg, 18 December 2020 Stronger together Gene activation requires the cooperative activity of multiple transcription factors. Until now, the mechanism used by these factors to coordinate their actions has been poorly understood. EMBL’s Krebs group presents a DNA footprinting method that makes it possible to determine whether transcription factors co-occupy their target DNA in living cells. more

General, 17 December 2020 EMBL and the European Commission refresh longstanding collaboration December has seen the start of a new chapter in the collaboration that has for years marked the relationship between the European Commission (EC) and EMBL. more