It was long thought that during an embryo's first cell division, one spindle is responsible for segregating the embryo's chromosomes into two cells. EMBL scientists now show that there are actually two spindles, one for each ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 12, 2018
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It was a 3D puzzle with over 1000 pieces, with only a rather fuzzy outline as a guide. But scientists at EMBL have now put enough pieces in place to see the big picture. In a study published today in Science, they present ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 15, 2016
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Combining AlphaFold2 with experimental and computational techniques has helped scientists figure out the human nuclear pore complex's architecture in greater detail than ever before.
Biotechnology
Jun 10, 2022
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The last ancestor we shared with worms, which roamed the seas around 600 million years ago, may already have had a sophisticated brain that released hormones into the blood and was connected to various sensory organs. The ...
Biotechnology
Feb 1, 2010
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Researchers at EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute and the Wellcome Sanger Institute have identified almost 2000 bacterial species living in the human gut. These species are yet to be cultured in the lab. The team used ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 11, 2019
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The Periodic Table of Protein Complexes, published today in Science, offers a new way of looking at the enormous variety of structures that proteins can build in nature, which ones might be discovered next, and predicting ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 10, 2015
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What are the bare essentials of life, the indispensable ingredients required to produce a cell that can survive on its own? Can we describe the molecular anatomy of a cell, and understand how an entire organism functions ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 26, 2009
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To observe the swift neuronal signals in a fish brain, scientists have started to use a technique called light-field microscopy, which makes it possible to image such fast biological processes in 3D. But the images are often ...
Molecular & Computational biology
May 7, 2021
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[B]A new computational tool allows the most accurate insights into evolution ever[/B] What makes a human different from a chimp? Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute ...
Other
Jun 19, 2008
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Researchers at EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), the University of Dundee and the Wellcome Sanger Institute analysed over 2700 genomes from C. elegans worms in order to better understand the causes of mutations. ...
Biotechnology
May 1, 2020
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