At its six sites EMBL’s many groups and teams work across the life sciences in interdisciplinary and collaborative ways. Meet and join this community on Bluesky, with EMBL starter pack 🦋

Meet Claire O’Donovan, one of @emblebi's first employees 🇮🇪. On the eve of her retirement, Claire shared her experience as a biocurator and Metabolomics Team Leader, and some valuable advice for anyone working in science.

On #WorldCancerDay, we feature how EMBL’s research & services are aiding the fight against cancer. From prediction methods to studying cancer mechanisms – every discovery advances our collective knowledge about this global health challenge. 👇Learn more:

On issue 71 of Science in School, everyone can explore the effects of albedo on ocean ice and... build your own voltaic pile, experiment with phages to learn about proteins, play an escape game to learn about renewable energy. Curious? Read more here:

Scientists at @Exactas_UBA, @EMBLHamburg, @MCB_Illinois and others mapped yerba mate’s genome, providing surprising facts about its biochemistry and evolution of caffeine biosynthesis. Find out more:

Nobel laureate and neuroscientist May-Britt Moser will deliver EMBL’s 2025 Kafatos Lecture on 18 March in Trondheim, Norway. She will explain how the brain’s ‘grid cells’ work like a combo speedometer, GPS, and collision warning system.

EMBL Director General Edith Heard welcomed the new ESRF Director Jean Daillant at EMBL Heidelberg. 🤝 The delegations discussed future collaborations, as the development of X-ray imaging for life sciences and renewed the Joint Structural Biology and Bio-Imaging Group agreement.

This symposium results from a collaboration between EMBL, EMBO and Sustainable European Laboratories Network, with support from the European Union’s Climate Pact.

Protein clumps in the brain are tied to neurodegenerative diseases, but measuring them is difficult. @EMBLHamburg's #SAXS experts & @LemkeLab developed a technique to measure clumping with anomalous X-ray scattering in solution.

RT @emblebi: Rare disease research relies on collecting genomic and clinical data across multiple countries. Learn more about the @Solve_R…

Meet Timothé Cezard 🇫🇷, the Team Lead for the European Variation Archive, the open repository of genomic variation data for all species. Timothé and his colleagues ensure that genetic variation data are easy for researchers to slice, query and reuse.

Recruitment for the EMBL International PhD Programme is officially open! 🔊 At EMBL, we train young scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders in academia, industry and other sectors. Start your career in the life sciences with us!

Did you know that human history is also archived in marine sediments? The Paleocore project led by Ifremer joined EMBL’s TREC expedition and collected over 10,000 samples to understand how major historical events have impacted the health of ecosystems.

RT @EMBLRome: Are you ready for the next step in your scientific career? EMBL Rome is recruiting a highly motivated scientist to establish…

🖇️ Other topics of discussion included how data sharing and generative biology are paving the way for the next breakthroughs medical solutions. Edith Heard said: “I’m excited to continue pushing the boundaries of what life science research can achieve for the world.”

Edith Heard provided insights into #AI as a research amplifier, unlocking solutions with societal and economic benefit. A recent example is the AlphaFold algorithm which can accurately predict protein structures, with many applications for drug discovery.

RT @emblebi: Large language models (LLMs) are everywhere, but using commercially available LLMs isn't always possible in biomedical researc…

The Kowalinski group's latest study on the Trypanosoma parasites reveals significant differences between the trypanosomal and human nuclear cap-binding complex. This key player in RNA metabolism could be a potential target for novel anti-parasitic drugs.

“Looking at proteins is like looking at clouds, the shape we see can be quite subjective," says Sarah Gharbi, Research Technician at EMBL Grenoble. "But I think we can all agree that this protein looks like a poodle!" Do you see it? 🐩 Learn more: