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Heidelberg, 31 October 2017 – SourceData from EMBO is an award-winning open platform that allows researchers and publishers to share figures and their underlying data in a machine-readable, searchable format, making research papers discoverable based on their data content. As highlighted in today’s paper in Nature Methods (Liechti et al., 2017), SourceData offers a novel method to describe research data and a suite of tools to generate, validate and use this information, providing scientists with an efficient method to find and re-use publish…

Heidelberg, 25 October 2017 – EMBO announces today the selection of 28 young researchers as EMBO Young Investigators. They join a network of 47 current and 417 past Young Investigators who represent some of the best up-and-coming group leaders in the life sciences in Europe and beyond. --- “It is a pleasure to welcome these outstanding scientists to the EMBO community,” says EMBO Director Maria Leptin. “Between them, they carry out some of the most promising life science research that Europe has to offer, and we look forward to supporting th…

Amsterdam and Heidelberg, 15 September 2017 – SourceData (http://sourcedata.embo.org/), an open platform from EMBO, designed to make published scientific data easily findable, has won the 2017 ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing. --- The results were announced on 14 September 2017 at the ALPSP 10th Anniversary Conference and Awards in Amsterdam. The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) represents organizations and institutions that publish scholarly and professional content around the world. The award recog…

Basel and Heidelberg, 6 September 2017 – EMBO and Basel Life are pleased to announce the EMBO at Basel Life conference, taking place at the Congress Center Basel, Switzerland from 10-13 September 2017. A committee of leading scientists has organized this international and broad-scope scientific conference on current and emerging life science research to be held as part of Basel Life (www.basellife.org). --- “Established and young researchers will present and discuss work on all aspects of genome biology, ranging from microbial genomes and ge…

Heidelberg, 30 August 2017 – Uncovering the molecular mechanism behind a rare genetic risk factor of Alzheimer’s disease points to a new therapeutic target. --- A gene called triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2, or TREM2, has been associated with numerous neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Frontotemporal lobar degeneration, Parkinson's disease, and Nasu-Hakola disease. Recently, a rare mutation in the gene has been shown to increase the risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease. Independently from each other,…

Heidelberg, 2 August 2017 – Researchers discover a molecular link between post-traumatic stress disorder and Alzheimer’s disease: There is increasing evidence that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) increases the risk of developing dementia later in life. Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany, now shed light on the molecular mechanism that links the two disorders. The research is published today in The EMBO Journal. --- PTSD is a brain disorder that can occur after experiencing a traumatic event. Individuals with…