European Molecular Biology Laboratory

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The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is a molecular biology research institution supported by 19 European countries. The EMBL was created in 1974 and has laboratories in Heidelberg, Germany; Hamburg, Germany; Grenoble, France; and Hinxton, UK, and an external Research Programme in Monterotondo, Italy.

Cell biology and biophysics, developmental biology, gene expression, structural biology and computational biology are the major fields of research at EMBL Heidelberg.

Many scientific breakthroughs have been made at EMBL Heidelberg, most notably the first systematic genetic analysis of embryonic development in the fruit fly by Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Erich Wieschaus, for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1995.

Heidelberg is the largest centre for biomedical research in Germany and home to the oldest German university, the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.

[edit] See also

• European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
• Michael Ashburner
• Fotis Kafatos
• European Research Area (ERA)

[edit] External links

• EMBL homepage