european molecular biology laboratory

(European Molecular Biology Laboratory) The Wellcome Trust has awarded £4.7 million to EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute to support the transfer of a large collection of information on the properties and activities of drugs and a large set of drug-like small molecules from publicly listed company Galapagos NV to the public domain.

Epigenetic regulation -- modifications to the structure of chromatin that influence which genes are expressed in a cell -- is a key player in embryonic development and cancer formation.

Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg now gained new insight into one crucial epigenetic mechanism and reveal that it acts much faster than assumed.

In this week's issue of Nature they report that estrogen causes rapid epigenetic changes in breast cancer cells.