Bead-based plasma #proteomics workflows boost proteome coverage but are vulnerable to cellular contamination, highlighting the need for contamination-aware quality control in #biomarker discovery. K. Korff, M. Mann, P. Geyer & colleagues @mpibiochem.bsky.social 🗞️ doi.org/10.1038/s443...

“EMBO has been instrumental,” says Zoi Lygerou, in enabling her to pursue #research and giving her students access to unique opportunities, such as training. Zoi is a professor at the University of Patras #Greece and EMBO Member. 🧪 www.embo.org/people/colla... #LifeSciences #opportunities #funding

Day 2 of the The human Microbiome conference #EESMicrobiome - Our editor Dr. Ruby Ponnudurai @rubyponnudurai.bsky.social is on the Meet the Editor panel today at lunch. Get in touch with her to know more about @reviewcommons.org. The human microbiome www.embl.org/about/info/c...

One of the important benefits of @reviewcommons.org is having a peer-reviewed preprint, which to an increasing number of funders counts as a published paper @embo.org Saves important time for trainees to have their work recognized.

We have asked the new EMBO Members to tell us about themselves and what makes it so compelling to work in science today. 🧪 In the fourth video of the series, EMBO Members explain what they think non-scientists would find most surprising about their #research field – Part 2! #LifeSciences

Welcome to the EMBO | EMBL Symposium ‘The human microbiome’ 🦠🙌🏼 With a growing crowd on site, it is time for the opening remarks – #EESMicrobiome Day 1, let’s go! 🤩

"EMBO provides opportunities for Greek life scientists and clinical researchers to network with other scientists and participate in EMBO Courses & Workshops," says Nektarios Tavernarakis, EMBC Delegate and EMBO Member. 🧪 Read the full interview here: www.embo.org/people/persp... #Greece #networking

Looking for a consultant for international research cooperation/strategy? Check below ⬇️ If you have worked with @bettinatrueb.bsky.social you know you will be in good hands & if you haven't... all of us who have worked with her do recommend! #lifesciences #consultancy #researchmanagement #strategy

🚀 WE'RE BACK! "The Many Faces of Cancer Evolution" is coming back to Rimini on May 27-29, 2026! meetings.embo.org/event/26-can... Join me, Luca @magnanilab.bsky.social , Celine Vallot, and Samra @turajliclab.bsky.social for 3 days of amazing science on the beach! @embo.org meeting #cancer 👇👇

Registration deadline for @embo.org workshop EvoChromo extended until September 30. meetings.embo.org/event/24-evo...

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Each year, EMBO elects new members to the EMBO community. Their unique expertise informs the EMBO Programmes and activities, nurturing excellence in the #LifeSciences. 🧪 We have asked the new EMBO Members to tell us about themselves and what makes it so compelling to work in science today.

A systemic screen using programmable antisense oligomers to silence genes of DNA and RNA phages identifies proteins essential for phage propagation. This tool offers potential for optimizing phage therapy. #NBThighlight www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interesting experiment with using AI tools in assessing applications... "The move was partly prompted by reviewers who said they were often sent low-quality and immature proposals to assess" ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/d41... #peerreview #sciencefunding

“Europe is entering a new phase—where longer, more widespread and more intense transmission of #mosquitobornediseases is becoming the new normal” ➡️ www.science.org/content/arti....

Sometimes you meet absolutely incredible bioinfo-magicians. It was a huge privilege when @shenwei356.bsky.social joined our group for a year on an @embl.org sabbatical. While here, he developed a new way of aligning to millions of bacteria, called LexicMap 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sign up now! Early registration deadline closes 30 September for the ASCB | EMBO #CellBio2025 Meeting taking place 6–10 December in Philadelphia, US: www.ascb.org/cellbio2025/... 🧪 @ascbiology.bsky.social #LifeSciences #CellBiology #research #conference

Each year, EMBO elects new members to the EMBO community. Their unique expertise informs the EMBO Programmes and activities, nurturing excellence in the #LifeSciences. 🧪 We have asked the new EMBO Members to tell us about themselves and what makes it so compelling to work in science today.

Collaboration in action at #EMBODevMet breakout sessions! 💡 📷 A behind-the-scenes look at our participants working together to identify barriers in developmental metabolism and develop strategies to move forward together ✨

The academic community has looked at how artificial-intelligence tools help researchers to write papers, but not how they distort the literature scientists choose to cite, says Zhicheng Lin go.nature.com/45X3Imr

🎵WHY DO ENHANCER! SUDDENLY APPEAR! EVERY TIME! THEY ARE NEAR!?! JUST LIKE ME! THEY LONG TO BE! CLOSE TO POLII! 🎵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Samanta Schweblin’s wildly imaginative novel – longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020 – explores the voyeurism and exhibitionism inherent in our digital lives. Discover our reading guide ⤵️ https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/mq4ldqij55

See last article on "The cognitive side of communication in social insects", just published in @TrendsCognSci . Free access under this link! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

A milestone in generative #AI for transparency and diversity: Switzerland’s first fully open multilingual Large Language Model #LLM. Entire development process (architecture, model weights, training data, recipes) is openly accessible. @ethz.ch #EPFL @cscsch.bsky.social 🧪 ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

Open PhD position in the Luck lab at IMB in Mainz, Germany, in the field of AI and computational structural biology. Check out project description here: www.imb.de/students-pos... Funded as part of the European Training Network ProAIomics cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1...

Our new pre-print from the Greenberg and Churchman labs shows that activity-dependent modulation of RNA stability is a major, and underappreciated, mechanism of gene regulation in neurons. Tutorial below! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/11)

Please re-post: Interested in chromatin and its evolution? Good news! There's still time to join us in beautiful Catalonia (9-12 Dec) to discuss eukaryotic, bacterial, archaeal, and viral chromatin and how it all hangs together meetings.embo.org/event/24-evo... Abstract deadline: 30 September

Rest in peace David Baltimore. A leading figure in virology and molecular biology has passed away this weekend. www.latimes.com/obituaries/s...

They do know how to 💥 🧨 🎇 🎆 in #Heidelberg

“Just when you think you’ve seen it all, social insects reveal another surprise.” https://scim.ag/47sVFyS

Sequence data from the new Ebola outbreak in DRC suggests it is indeed a new spillover. And just incredible to see the virus sequenced and the data publicly shared less than 24 hours after confirmation of the outbreak. #IDsky 🧪 virological.org/t/the-16th-e...

Past to future 1/2 🌍 Our new Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com perspective shows how archives, maps, art, oral histories & palaeo-records can enrich #biodiversity science—helping set baselines, track change & inform #conservation. 🔗 rdcu.be/eEcIt #history #ecology #baselines

"A strong case exists for proactive ethical debate and transparent regulatory oversight of experiments with all extinct species." #deextincion #bioethics #ancientDNA Interesting read ⬇️

🌍 We’re growing our team at CRG in Barcelona! Two leadership opportunities now open: ⚖️ Head of Legal Dept 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs... 🏗️ Head of Facility Management 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs... Join us and help shape the future of science + innovation. 🚀 #Jobs #Hiring #Research

This looks like a great resource. One striking thing from this is that they go from 100 billion predicted protein sequences to 3 billion when clustered at 90% identify which tell us also how we keep sequencing the same species over and over again.

Congrats Haillot & the whole @ulrichtechnau.bsky.social lab! Another brilliant example of how we shouldn't assume simplicity in non-bilaterian animals. Triploblasty’s roots seem to run older than we thought! Nice to see a crosstalk between MAPK, β-catenin & Notch to define identities. #EvoDevo

AI-assisted design of super-adhesive #hydrogels based on analysing aa sequences of natural protein glues &optimising formulations 💛 the cover image &there is something so satisfying about reading a printed issue! Online ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #bioengineering #softmaterials #machinelearning

🚨 PhD Opportunity! Join us @nicolesoranzo.bsky.social ’s lab @humantechnopole.bsky.social to work on the ERC-funded IMPACT project! Are you excited about: 🔬 Genome editing 🧫 Stem cell models 🧬 Single-cell genomics? humantechnopole.it/en/news/call...

Delighted to see @sakshikhaiwal.bsky.social work in print www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... Huge thank to @univcotedazur.bsky.social for providing extensive support on this project, @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social and Jonas groups for huge help, @cnrs.fr @ircan.bsky.social

Spatial proteomics & transcriptomics chart #ovariancancer evolution from fallopian tube precursors. Deep Visual Proteomics reveals early SUMOylation, TRIP13 epithelial driver, BGN therapeutic target & epithelial-stromal cooperation in progression. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

EMBO offers travel grants to help international attendees travel to the ASCB | EMBO Meeting #CellBio2025 in Philadelphia, 6-10 December 2025. Application deadline: 3 September - so hurry! www.ascb.org/grants-award... #CellBio2025 #EMBO #TravelGrant #CellBiology #Science

🔊EMBO offers travel grants for international meeting attendees at the ASCB | EMBO Meeting #CellBio2025 in Philadelphia, US, Dec 6–10 2025! Deadline: Sep 3 Info & link to apply: www.ascb.org/grants-award... Pls repost! @ascbiology.bsky.social #lifesciences #cellbiology

20 years of the EMBO Lab Leadership course - an amazing achievement! Thank you so much to everyone who has been part of the course over the years 🙏 Come and find out for yourself why this incredible training has stood the test of time: www.embolableadership.org #lifescience #EMBOLabLead

Final year PhD students, I know you’re desperately trying to finish experiments/revisions/submissions/write a thesis & just survive - but please spare a few minutes to apply to your dream postdoc labs. It easily takes A YEAR from first contact, even if everything goes to plan on both sides.

New Preprint: High-intensity 365 nm irradiation accelerates photoreactions in living cells by up to 1000×. We show protein–drug 💊, –protein 💪, –DNA 🧬, –RNA 🧬 crosslinking within seconds, and analysis by #massspec for #proteomics, #chembio, #chromatin and #RNAbiology. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We’re hosting the @embo.org Practical Course on In-situ structural biology by CryoFIB and CryoET in April 2026! 🧬❄️ You can expect hands-on training, cutting-edge methods, and a chance to work alongside leading experts in structural biology. 🔗 Apply by Dec 8, 2025: meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-...

📣The #EMBOWorkshop is almost here! 🔬 Learn all about the evolution and origins of multicellularity 🦠🧬 from October 9–11, ONLINE🤩 🗓️ Register by September 5 ➡️ https://meetings.embo.org/event/25-multicellularity #UnravellingEvolution #DiscoveringLife

“The very traits that made these sea horses successful, such as their perfect mimicry, tiny size and specialized biology, are now their greatest vulnerability.” ➡️ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/s... #evolutionarybiology #evolution

Our Systema framework for evaluating genetic perturbation response prediction methods is now out in @natbiotech.nature.com ✨ Systema helps to evaluate perturbation response prediction methods by focusing on perturbation-specific effects rather than systematic variation 🎯

Optimised #honeybee diet using engineered yeast: promising solution against honeybee colony decline due to pollen starvation ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #geneticengineering #sterols #bioengineering