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...

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.  ...