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...
Colorectal cancer organoid with residual cells responsible for relapse marked in red. (IRB Barcelona)
Barcelona, 9 November 2022 – Colon cancer is the third most common cancer in the world, with about 2 million new cases each year. Most patients are diagnosed when the tumour is still located in the colon or rectum. These tumours are removed by surgery and, in many cases, are treated with...
Barcelona, 26 October, 2022.- Ulcerative colitis is the most common type of inflammatory bowel disease, characterised by chronic ulcers and inflammation in the colon and rectum. Symptoms can be lifelong and range from mild to life-threatening. There is no known cure for this human pathology.  ...
Barcelona, 21 October, 2022.- There are many scientific challenges that exceed the possibilities of an individual laboratory, a single country or even a continent. Until the Human Genome Project (HGP), biology had always been a discipline of individual achievements. The HGP marked a key departure...
Barcelona, 17 October, 2022.- Mitochondria are cellular organelles that generate most of the energy needed to activate the biochemical reactions of a cell. They produce 90% of the energy our body needs to function.   Mitochondria, unlike other cell organelles, have their own DNA (mtDNA) of a mere...

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