Coinciding with the Rare Disease Day 2015 on February 28, the Parc Científic de Barcelona (PCB) hosts the exhibition Menos Raras at the central corridor of the Torres building. The exhibition has been organized by the Associació...

A severe depression forces a neurologist to end his career; his life is turned upside down. He decides to investigate the causes...   This is the starting point of the documentary Das Dunkle Gen (The Dark Gene) directed by Miriam Jakobs and Gerhard Schick that will premiere this week at the...

In December 2014 the CNAG obtained the SGS Certification ISO 9001:2008 for the management and performance of high throughput sequencing...

Spain will become a full member of ELIXIR, the European bioinformatics infrastructure created to optimise biological data obtained from life sciences research. Spain participates in ELIXIR through the...

The research, by an international team led by scientists from the McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre in Montreal, underscores the importance of investigating possible sources of exposure to aristolochic acid. The compound, found in plants of the Aristolochia genus, also has been...

Over 170 students from secondary schools have participated in the “Express PhD!” an initiative to reconstruct in a couple of hours a small research project that covers the entire process of undertaking a doctoral thesis through a range of activities. At the CNAG the students learned how DNA...