Press Releases - December 2007

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17 December 2007 - EMBL
An ambulance man for muscle damage
Researchers of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's Mouse Biology Unit (EMBL), Italy, and the Harefield Heart Science Centre of Imperial College London, have now discovered a molecular signal that helps muscle regenerate and protects it from atrophy.

11 December 2007 - EMBL
ArrayExpress database doubles in size to 100,000 hybridisations
ArrayExpress, the publicly available database of transcriptomics data at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), has doubled in size in 2007, reaching the 100,000-hybridisation milestone.

5 December 2007 - EMBL
The closest look ever at native human tissue
Using an advanced microscopy technique called cryo-electron tomography, researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory [EMBL] have visualised proteins responsible for cell-cell contacts for the first time.

3 December 2007 - EMBL
How cells keep in shape
Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory [EMBL] and the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics [AMOLF], The Netherlands, have now decoded a molecular mechanism that plays an important role in the development of a cell's shape.