BCN, 25 March 2019.- The European Advanced infraStructure for Innovative Genomics (EASI-Genomics), a project funded under the European Union’s research and innovation programme Horizon 2020, will provide researchers free-of-charge access to cutting-edge European genomics facilities. EASI-Genomics...

BCN, 13 March, 2019.- As the European Commssion (EC) announced last Tuesday, 5th March, the LifeTime initiative will be supported with one million euros for one year from 1 March 2019. The funding is an incentive for the international...

BCN, 13 Feb, 2019.- The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) is an international, nonprofit alliance formed in 2013 to accelerate the potential of research and medicine to advance human health. It brings together a growing community of...

BCN, 8 Feb, 2019.- How do they do it? How do they get genetic information from a blood sample? How do you manage the genetic information of 20,000 people? How do you get to understand all this information so it can be used for research? These are some of the questions asked by GCAT participants...

BCN, 16 Jan, 2019.- Modern human DNA computational analysis suggests that the extinct species was a hybrid of Neanderthals and Denisovans and cross bred with Out of Africa modern humans in Asia. This finding would explain that the hybrid found this summer in the caves of Denisova–the offspring of a...

BCN, 16 Jan 2019.- The body’s cells are constantly changing. But which of these changes are healthy developments and which lead to serious diseases? This is what LifeTime, a transnational and interdisciplinary initiative of leading European researchers, wants to figure out. The consortium, which...