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(European Molecular Biology Laboratory) Inside each cell's nucleus, genetic sequences known as enhancers act like remote controls, switching genes on and off.

Scientists at EMBL Heidelberg can now see -- and predict -- exactly when each remote control is itself activated, in a real embryo.

Their work is published today in Nature Genetics.

(European Molecular Biology Laboratory) Scientists at EMBL Heidelberg and the DKFZ have developed a new method that uncovers the combined effects of genes.

Published online today in Nature Methods, it helps understand how different genes can amplify, cancel out or mask each others' effects, and enables scientists to suggest genes that interfere with each other in much the same manner that Facebook suggests friends.

(European Molecular Biology Laboratory) In a study published today in Cell Metabolism, scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, have discovered that a group of proteins called IRPs ensure that iron balance is kept and as such are essential for cell survival.

More specifically, they found that IRPs are required for the functioning of mitochondria, the cell’s energy factories.

(European Molecular Biology Laboratory) Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory have captured fruit fly development on film, creating the Fly Digital Embryo.

In work published today in Nature Methods, they were also the first to clearly record how a zebrafish's eyes and mid-brain are formed.

(European Molecular Biology Laboratory) In a study published online this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, EMBL scientists provide conclusive proof that, when a muscle is injured, white blood cells called macrophages play a crucial role in its regeneration and uncovered the genetic switch that controls this process and uncovered the genetic switch that controls this process, opening the door for new therapeutic approaches to sports injuries and to diseases such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

(University of Manchester) The University of Manchester and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute have launched a major new e-science resource for biologists -- which could accelerate research into treatments for H1N1 flu and cancer.