BCN, 7 April 2020.- There will be two mass testing sites – one coordinated by the CRG at its labs at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park and another at the Parc Cientific de Barcelona, jointly coordinated by IRB Barcelona, IBEC and the CNAG-CRG, part of the CRG.   The project, codenamed Programa...

BCN, 6 April 2020.- All cells share the same DNA, yet there are many cell types. They vary enormously within the body, and express different sets of genes. To describe all of a cell’s functions and to understand the biological networks that direct their activities, scientists founded the...

BCN, 1 April 2020.- The findings by scientists from the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with the CENIEH (National Research Center on Human Evolution) in Burgos, Spain, and other...

BCN, 5 February 2020.- Spain’s contribution to the project involved sequencing 95 primary tumours of chronic lymphatic leukaemia in the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG-CRG), part of the Centre for Genomic Regulation.   Scientists...

BCN, 29 January 2020.- Today the Spanish Minister of Science and Innovation visited the Centro Nacional de Anñalisis Genómico (CNAG-CRG). The minister toured the facilities to learn first-hand about its world-class infrastructures, which includes state-of-the-art sequencers able to analyse more...

BCN, 19 December 2019.- Based on the largest study of cancer patients of its kind, scientists have created a new way of classifying tumours. Clinicians can use genome sequencing to assign their patients’ tumours to one of sixteen groups in the new classification system, ten of which provide...