Congratulations to EMBO Members Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel, who with Karl Deisseroth have won the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and #optogenetics. 🧪

Today, the #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine was announced.

Interested in how the #research developed? 🧪

In 2017, @emboreports.org @embopress.org interviewed Karl Deisseroth, one of the Nobel Prize winners, about his work on #optogenetics and more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Issue 19!
Highlight: The plasticity of Paneth cells
Review: co-activator stepbrothers SAGA & ATAC
Perforin-2 cytosolic antigen escape mechanism
TAD hierarchies & cohesion zones
Hox/Meis transcription & neural crest diversification
Cover by Trowitzsch, Tampé et al
link.springer.com/journal/4431...

What will it take to make #CultivatedMeat part of our everyday food? 🧪

A Science & Society article (EMBO Reports, EMBO Press) explores the challenges facing #CellularAgriculture.

More here:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s44319-025-00492-8
#LifeSciences #research

Europe’s #research excellence offers enormous potential for new #HealthTechnologies. How can we strengthen the path from discovery to patient benefit? 🧪

EMBO #Sustainability Officer Philipp Weber talks about the importance of sustainable laboratories and green computing, grassroots and top-down initiatives as well as how the EMBO-funded EU project SPARKHub is helping us move towards #SustainableResearch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaUlfuUPZXo 🧪

Deadline extended! European-based journalists have until 30 October to apply for financial support from the Maria Leptin | EMBO #ScienceJournalism Fellowships. 🧪

More info:
https://www.embo.org/features/science-journalism-fellowships-deadline-extended/
#funding #LifeSciences #ScienceCommunication

PREreview & @dorassessment.bsky.social invite you to join a roundtable discussion exploring what it would take for #PeerReview contributions to be not only visible and citable, but meaningfully recognized and valued.

🗓️ 7 Oct, 2026, 2pm UTC
👉 Register: tr.ee/roundtable

#ResearchAssessment

The EMBO editors look forward to talk science @ 'poster clinic' & 'pitch your paper' sessions (+ over drinks). If you want to look under the bonnet & attend an editorial meeting contact @berndpulverer.bsky.social. @embojournal.org @emboreports.org @embomolmed.org @molsystbiol.org @lsajournal.org

The beautiful cover of our September issue highlights the article by H. Wong, H. Chen, N. Ip & colleagues: “#DeepPlaque: a scalable multimodal platform for Aβ pathology and cell analysis in #AlzheimersDisease” 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s44321-026-00488-4

Scientific illustration by the authors

Tomorrow our Fellows' Meeting begins in Heidelberg! 🧪

We're looking forward to welcoming our fellows for days of discussion, #exchange and fresh ideas. Next week, they will be joined by our EMBO Members.

Safe travels to everyone on their way and see you tomorrow! #EMBOFMM26 #community

Have a look at our second September issue:
link.springer.com/journal/4431...

The cover features work by Jean-Michel Cioni and co-workers identifying LC3B mRNA as a component of the endosome-associated mRNA pool.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

There is still time to apply for the EMBL International PhD Programme! 📢

Don’t miss this opportunity to receive dedicated mentoring while doing interdisciplinary research.

Research groups across EMBL are recruiting now! bit.ly/4x9Edss

Can having too much make us less resourceful? 🧪

A Science & Society article reflects on how scarcity can encourage #creativity and thoughtful use of resources in #science, and asks whether today’s abundance may have the opposite effect: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s44319-026-00883-5

EMBO Workshop on Bacterial Networks: Our microbiology editor Ieva Gailite presenting the @embojournal.org poster prize to Morgane Wuckelt from the @mathieucoureuil.bsky.social lab - congratulations!

EMBO is #hiring a Programme Assistant for the EMBO Young Investigator Programme (absence cover) – Apply now!

https://www.embo.org/vacancy/programme-assistant-embo-young-investigator-programme-absence-cover/
#JobOpening #JobSearch #CareerOpportunities 🧪

Issue 18:
Comment on timescale mismatch in anthropocene evolution
Review: tRNA evolution in photosynthetic organisms
Method: Engineering editopes to make tumor neoantigens
Ribosome-associated protein quality control during CFTR synthesis
Cover: Alessio Zippo et al
link.springer.com/journal/4431...

Very happy to announce that @emboreports.org will be sponsoring a cash prize for the best poster at Ctrl+Epi+Edit ✒️🧬! Still time to register and submit an abstract (speaking slots still open also), but it's filling up, so act fast! Thanks for the support 🙏 ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org

What if treating a disease isn’t enough to stop it? 🧪

A Science & Society article explores why ending schistosomiasis requires going beyond treatments and how #PublicHealth policies as well as community action could help: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s44319-026-00845-x

We congratulate Eleftheria Zeggini (Helmholtz Munich, Technische Universität München) who receives the FEBS | EMBO Women in Science #Award 2027! 🧪

More information in the press release:
https://www.embo.org/press-releases/febs-embo-women-in-science-award-2027-for-eleftheria-zeggini/ #WomenInScience