The goal for all participants of the open days at the PCB is to do a sort of "express doctorate" in a couple of hours, reconstructing in this way, the steps that a scientist has to carry out to do his or her project.   Researchers at the CNAG explained what we do at the centre to...

What is Xplore Health? Xplore Health is a European educational portal on cutting-edge health research that offers innovative multimedia and hands-on experiences to young people through the internet, schools and science centres and museums.   Xplore Health aims: - To bridge the gap between research...

Despite examples of excellent practice, rare disease (RD) research is still mainly fragmented by data type and by disease. Individual efforts have little interoperability and almost no systematic connection of detailed clinical information with genetic information, biomaterial availability or...

If we use the well-known comparison of the genome with a book, then we can say without fear of being wrong that it is a very complicated book. It is thousands of times bigger than a regular book, with more than 3 billion letters in total, each one being an A, C, G or T, as per the four possible...

The study, published in the journal Nature Genetics, presents a new perspective in cancer research, integrating the results of the complete sequencing of the genome and epigenome in patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. Researchers identify cells that cause the disease, discover new molecular...

More than 10 years ago the Human Genome Project produced an almost complete list of the 3 billion pairs of chemical letters in the DNA that embodies the genetic code – but nothing about the way this blueprint works. Now, after five years of concerted effort by more than 440 researchers in 32...