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Heidelberg , 9 March 2010
The German Minister for Education and Research officially opens the EMBL Advanced Training Centre – Funding comes from the German Ministry for Education and Research, the Klaus Tschira Foundation, the federal state of Baden-Württemberg and EMBL’s member states.
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Press Coverage:
Mannheimer Morgen, 10 March 2010 Neue Heimat für kluge Köpfe
Rhein-Neckar Zeitung front page, 10 March 2010 Treffpunkt für die Spitzenwissenschaftler
Rhein-Neckar Zeitung, 10 March 2010 Für die klügsten Köpfe der Welt
Heidelberg , 4 March 2010
At 3.3 million, microbial genes in our gut outnumber previous estimates for the whole of the human body, EMBL scientists and their collaborators found when establishing a reference gene set for the human gut microbiome.
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Heidelberg , 31 January 2010
The last ancestor we shared with worms, which roamed the seas around 600 million years ago, may already have had a sophisticated brain. Fossils cannot give us this information, but scientists at EMBL Heidelberg obtained it by studying small molecules called microRNAs. Their findings are published today in Nature.
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Hamburg , 26 January 2010
By determining the structure of DAPK bound to calmodulin, scientists from EMBL Hamburg have found a way to hack into a vital cellular communications system, raising the possibility of developing new drugs to tackle disorders like neurodegeneration, cancer and cardiovascular disease.
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Heidelberg , 19 January 2010
EMBL scientists have discovered that a group of bacteria possess proteins thought to exist only in eukaryotes. Published today in PLoS Biology, the study could help unravel part of our own evolutionary history.
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Hinxton , 18 January 2010
ChEMBLdb, a vast online database of information on the properties and activities of drugs and drug-like small molecules and their targets, launches today with information on over half a million compounds. The data lie at the heart of translating information from the human genome into successful new drugs in the clinic.
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Heidelberg , 10 December 2009
EMBL scientists uncover the gene responsible for keeping females female
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Press Coverage:
Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 10 December 2009 'Wächter der Weiblichkeit’
The Independent (UK), 11 December 2009 ‘From Minnie to Mickey (and all they did was turn off a gene)’
Financial Times, 11 December 2009 ‘Study hints at gender rethink’
Monterotondo , 10 December 2009
Scientists at EMBL Monterotondo are the first to prove that the Notch signalling pathway targets heart muscle cells, thus revealing its crucial role in heart development and repair.
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Heidelberg , 26 November 2009
In three papers published back-to-back today in Science, scientists in a partnership between the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, and the Centre de Regulacio Genòmica (CRG) in Barcelona, Spain provide the first comprehensive picture of a minimal cell, based on an extensive quantitative study of the biology of the bacterium that causes atypical pneumonia, Mycoplasma pneumoniae. The study uncovers fascinating novelties relevant to bacterial biology and shows that even the simplest of cells is more complex than expected.
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Press Coverage:
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2 December 2009 ‘Der künftige Star unter den Bakterien’
New Scientist, 26 November 2009 'Simple' bacterium shows surprising complexity
Nature, 26 November 2009 ‘Single-celled life does a lot with very little’
Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 26 November 2009 ‘Gläsernes Bakterium’
Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany), 27 November 2009 ‘Es lebt’
Heidelberg , 26 November 2009
In the fruitfly Drosophila, oskar mRNA, which is involved in defining the animal’s body axes, is produced in the nuclei of nurse cells neighbouring the oocyte, and must be transported to the oocyte and along its entire length before being translated into protein. In a study published today in Cell, scientists at EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany, have visualized the molecular mechanism that underlies this localisation process.
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