Barcelona, 10 February, 2023.- The five-year survival rate after diagnosis ranging from 5% to 25% makes lung cancer the deadliest type of cancer. Researchers from the public and private sectors of nine European countries are partnering up for the LUCIA project (Understanding Lung Cancer-Related...

Barcelona, 6 February 2023.- Researchers at the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG-CRG) have recently published a study on methylation patterns using nanopore reads in the journal Bioinformatics Advances. The team has developed the cvlr tool that allows genome wide screening to identify...

Barcelona, 26 January, 2023.- The IRTA-CReSA group led by Dr. Fernando Rodríguez and Dr. Jordi Argilaguet has developed a vaccine prototype against the African swine fever (ASF), based on a live attenuated virus, the BA71ΔCD2. The study has been published recently in Plos Pathogens. This...

Barcelona, 18 January 2023.- A singular orography that has determined the establishment of administrative-religious boundaries, perpetuated unalterably for centuries, and the rigid social structure imposed by the Catholic Church over long periods of time have shaped the genetic structure of the...

Barcelona, 12 January 2023- The Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG-CRG) is one of the main partners of the Solve-RD project, a pan-European initiative aiming to improve diagnostics of rare disease patients through a “genetic knowledge web”...

Barcelona, 17 November 2022.- Today, the European Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI) project kicks-off in Brussels, Belgium. The new €40 million GDI project, coordinated by ELIXIR, is jointly funded by the European Commission under the...