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...

The latest issue of Nature Biotechnology features an article describing the characteristics of SMUFIN, which has been developed by the computational genomics group at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). The team is led by David Torrents, ICREA...

The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) is an international coalition of over 140 member organizations dedicated to improving human health by maximizing the potential of genomic medicine. The group’s diverse membership includes...

The ICTS map is composed by facilities of different scientific areas ranging from the life sciences to astrophysics distributed throughout the Spanish territory and devoted to cutting-edge and the highest quality research and technological development.   The update of the map includes 29 ICTS...

Royal Society Open Science is a new open access journal publishing high-quality original research across the entire range of science on the basis of objective peer-review. It belongs to the publishing group of the Royal Society, a self-governing fellowship of many of the world’s most distinguished...

A team led by Miguel Pérez-Enciso, ICREA researcher at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and at the Centre for Research in Agrigenomics (CRAG), has obtained the first partial genome sequence of an ancient pig. Researchers from the CNAG and the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Pompeu...