The EMBO Practical Course "Hack your microscope" in Oeiras, PT, 20–25 Apr 2026 aims to innovate, democratize advanced #imaging technologies and shape the future of open-source #microscopy – Apply now! Deadline: 12 Dec meetings.embo.org/event/26-mic... #EMBOmicroscope #EMBOevents 🧪

This is a glimpse of the cytoskeletal structures we found doing U-ExM in more than 200 species, now in Cell🤩: shorturl.at/6oHvi Amazing collaboration between @centriolelab.bsky.social , @dudinlab.bsky.social and @gautamdey.bsky.social labs. I believe last one is a 🕷️ #FluorescenceFriday #Microscopy

Very cool! I agree AI scientific review can be useful if it is transparent. It is all progressing very fast and will change everything. @qedScience @bioRxiv is a great first step. We are doing some human-based eval, so more soon from @EMBOPress @ReviewCommons with @qedScience. Watch this space ;-)

An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

"The awkward reality may be that if ChatGPT admitted “I don’t know” too often, then users would simply seek answers elsewhere. That could be a serious problem for a company that is still trying to grow its user base and achieve profitability." ➡️ www.science.org/content/arti... #AI #LLMs

On Wednesday and Thursday this week, a delegation from EMBO travelled to Lisbon to engage with Portugal’s #LifeSciences and EMBO Members #community.

Some impressions from the rather fabulous #EMBOmobilegenome Mobile Genome meeting in Heidelberg Morning walk through the woods, exciting panel discussion, flash talks, lab community, drosophila friends, … @events.embl.org The transposon community is going very strong. see you all again in 2027!!

Are you using any of our factor models, such as MOFA? 🛵 You might’ve found it challenging to tailor them to your specific use cases - not anymore! Introducing MOFA-FLEX: a flexible, modular factor analysis framework designed for customizable modeling across diverse multi-omics data scenarios. 1/n

Paper alert! A spatial atlas of human gastrointestinal acute GVHD reveals epithelial and immune dynamics underlying disease pathophysiology. We examined how immune cells are organized in the gut and what happens to them in GVHD. TL;DR Timing is key! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our latest paper has just been published in Cell! doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... We developed a new method called MCC ultra, which allows 3D chromatin structure to be visualised with a 1 base pair pixel size.

Bacteria can sense when a virus starts shredding their genome — by detecting methylated mononucleotides. Here’s the story of how we discovered the Metis defense system 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We're happy to share that #EESMechanobiology is now open for registration: https://s.embl.org/ees26-06-bl#EESMechanobiology Submit your abstract by 3 March 2026 and join us in Heidelberg or virtually for four days of knowledge sharing and networking with biologists, physicists, and engineers. 🧪🧫

An intimate conversation about what drives me every day in “sharing experience” of science by getting tools of science in hands of kids everywhere. themicroscopists.bitesizebio.com/episodes/man...

In Nature Communications: MS-based proteomics + machine learning to diagnose Lyme neuroborreliosis with 92% accuracy (CSF) and 80% (blood) - paving the way for earlier, less invasive testing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

‘I sometimes think I only became a writer because I didn’t have any other good options.’ We asked David Szalay, shortlisted for the #BookerPrize2025 with Flesh, some quick-fire questions so you can get to know him better. Discover all the Q&As:https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/lwijq54tx1

📣 We are moving to Barcelona to join the amazing @crg.eu and explore how centrosomes & cilia work, evolve & respond to the environment. We are looking for PhD students www.crg.eu/en/content/t... Postdocs gimm.pt/jobs/postdoc... Other calls to open, also for an experienced lab manager. Get in touch!

Check out our @natbiotech.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com piece with Yumeng Zhang + Jiangning Song on @genentech.bsky.social's deep learning approach to accelerate antibiotic discovery. Congrats to Gabriele Scalia, Tommaso Biancalani, Man-Wah Tan, Aviv Regev, @yoshuabengio.bsky.social et al!

Deadline approaching for the EMBO meeting "Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila" 21 – 27 June 2026. Both new and established PIs welcome. Apply by Nov 3rd! meetings.embo.org/event/26-dro...

Dear ENPER community, We are pleased to invite you to the next ENPER meeting, which will be held in my country Bulgaria, from 26 to 28 August 2026 in Sofia. Save the Date!🌱🌱🌱

Sign up now for EMBO Workshop "Molecular mechanisms of selfish elements and strategies" in Bern, Switzerland, 8–11 February 2026. Abstract submission/Registration by: 15 December 2025/15 January 2026 https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-selfish-elements #EMBOselfishElements #GeneSky #EMBOevents 🧪

Lab’s first paper is out!! We show the first structures of #Asgard #chromatin by #cryo-EM 🧬❄️ Asgard histones form closed and open hypernucleosomes. Closed are conserved across #Archaea, while open resemble eukaryotic H3–H4 octasomes and are Asgard-specific. More here: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

Scientific progress thrives on international #collaboration and the exchange of ideas across geographical boundaries. On the second day of the EMBO Members' Meeting, there was a panel discussion on "Fostering Global #ScientificExchange." 🧪 #research #community

Welcome to #EMBOEpitrans! We’re kicking off an exciting few days of learning, sharing, and connecting with scientists from around the world. Let’s dive in 🔬 @embo.org

Three days left – Register now for EMBO Practical Course "Optics, Forces & Development" in Santiago, Chile, 7–17 January 2026. Deadline: 31 October 2025 https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-optics #EMBO26optics #EMBOevents 🧪

Looks like OpenFold3 has been formally released in a public "preview". Not quite on parity with AlphaFold3 on a few benchmarks shown, in particular for antibody interactions. All info on the github link. I am sure we will hear more about this from the developers github.com/aqlaboratory...

A wonderful collaboration with @alexbaffet.bsky.social @boyanbonev.bsky.social and @neurogenesis-i3s.bsky.social labs

The body of evidence for persistent activation of the immune system in #LongCovid and related post-infective syndromes www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...

Tomorrow Wednesday 29th at 11am, lesson #3 of @neilshubin.bsky.social guest Professor @college-de-france.fr on ‘The evolutionary origin of bones and teeth’. The second lesson is available @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6y... . No registration, Free access, dentures accepted.

Red Balloon https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/red-balloon-1922

How do pleiotropic TFs generate organized diversity in developing tissues? @spinalorga.bsky.social shows that PAX3 & PAX7 organize #SpinalCord by acting as both repressors & pioneer activators, regulated by #morphogens to ensure precise neural subtype specification @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4qumsla

Head of Director’s Office Bettina Trueb presents an overview of the EMBO areas of impact to the newly elected EMBO Members 2025 during the Members' annual meeting in Heidelberg.

The 22nd of October marked the official start of the EMBO Members’ Meeting 2025. We are delighted to welcome 66 EMBO Members to Heidelberg, Germany, for three days of inspiring discussions, #collaboration and connection. Wishing everyone a productive and memorable #meeting!

The EMBO Chile #LifeSciences Forum took place on 10 October with over 120 participants and 16 invited speakers from #Europe and #Chile, with 10 flash talks and close to 30 posters presented. 🧪 Thank you to everyone who attended!

A new high-coverage #Denisovan genome, chock-full of fascinating new information. Must-read study by @stephanepeyregne.bsky.social @janetk.bsky.social and colleagues On @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social: 🧪🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🎉 New in #GENETICS: Functional Genomics & Systems Biology section! Highlighting cutting-edge studies on molecular networks, systems-level insights, and innovative methods. Read more: buff.ly/wWVZdrS%F0%9...

Our collab w. V Goel, @nicholas-aboreden.bsky.social , J Jusuf, G Blobel, L Mirny, @irate-physicist.bsky.social out in @natsmb.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Was co-submitted with @allanaschooley.bsky.social @jobdekker.bsky.social whose paper should also come out soon Brief thread 👇

Today @anthropic.com released PubMed integration for Claude. No hallucinations. Just real science, real data. As a beta tester, this has been game changing— a supercharged research tool. Here are 6 prompts that will transform how you search the literature. A 🧵 www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

Fingers crossed. Cachexia is a horrible & frequent clinical feature of cancer. “It’s a cachexia moment,” says Vickie Baracos, a cachexia expert at the University of Alberta. “A positive phase III result would be amazing. We’ve been waiting for this for a long time”

Join us for this exciting meeting! @embo.org Workshop "Pathogen Immunity and Signalling", 8-12 June, 2026, Leiden, The Netherlands meetings.embo.org/event/26-pat...

Very excited to be co-organizing this meeting. Hope to see you there!

✨ Latest exciting story of the group in @nature.com. Here, we go beyond SNPs and built a species-wide atlas of genetic variants in yeast. With >1,000 near T2T genomes, we show how large genomic variations affect trait diversity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

From a sample of over 10 papers (on most of which I'm either not an author or not a senior author), over a year-long revisions in our field are becoming common. Before we accept this as the norm, I suggest we consider the consequences & inequalities this creates, even in the era of preprints.

Can AI reveal how genes are switched on and off by only looking at the DNA sequence? Jussi Taipale’s group blends lab work with predictive models to try and provide an answer 🧬 http://bit.ly/3KSYHTF

The ambitious “All Aboard” exhibition transforms Athens International Airport into a hub of contemporary art.

🧠 The Lipid #Brain Atlas is out now! If you think #lipids are boring and membranes are all the same, prepare to be surprised. Led by @lucafusarbassini.bsky.social with Giovanni D'Angelo's lab, we mapped membrane lipids in the mouse brain at high resolution. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Sounds exciting, congrats @odedrechavi.bsky.social @qedscience.bsky.social ! #SciencePublishing #AcademicSky (link below for those who want to try it out) ⬇️

🚨🚨🚨 Two super well-funded PhD grants from our MSCA Doctoral Network @evomg-dn.bsky.social at our lab at @melisupf.bsky.social, @crg.eu and the @evomg-bcn.bsky.social Program. If you're excited about evolution, genomics and biomedical research, this is your DN! 😃 Further info: www.evomg-dn.eu and 👇

Very cool talk by @aruthak.bsky.social at #EMBLSpatialBiology! Spatial signatures predict immunotherapy outcome in non-small cell lung cancer, out in @natgenet.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

Are #TranscriptionFactors no longer "undruggable"? Recent innovations in small molecule chemistry, peptide design, #chemoproteomics, #structuralbiology make modulating #TranscriptionFactor activity possible ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

As the Moon eclipsed the Sun on 8 April 2024, birds took note. Leveraging nature’s own experiment, scientists and the public joined forces to show how different species responded to sudden midafternoon darkness followed by a new “dawn.” Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/48WbhLL