BCN, 3 Dec, 2020.- The Programa Orfeu, which launched earlier this year to carry out mass testing for COVID-19 during Catalonia’s first wave of the pandemic, was an unprecedented collaboration between the research, healthcare and governmental systems.   The project brought together some of the...

BCN, 12 Nov, 2020.- A consortium led by Dr Carmen Balaña of the Badalona Applied Research Group in Oncology (B-ARGO Group) of the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) Badalona at the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) has published two papers that indicate better ways to stratify...

Nov 11, 2020.- A team coordinated by scientists from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) and the Universidade de Vigo with participation of the CNAG-CRG, has sequenced the complete genome of the Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis), a research that, in addition to...

BCN, 19 Oct, 2020.- A new study from the CNAG-CRG and the CRG, the Developmental and Regulatory Genomics group at the MRC LMS and the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Germany, describes a new algorithm to compare the 3D genomes of cancer patients with that of a healthy reference....

BCN, 8 Oct, 2020.- Coordinated by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) and funded by the European Commission, the project PerMedCoE: Exascale-ready cell-level simulations for European Personalised Medicine will optimise codes for cell-level...

BCN, 7 October, 2020.- Cancer is a disease caused by mutations that make cells lose their capacity to function normally and regulate their growth. Each tumour arises from specific mutations across distinct genomic regions. Scientists identify this genetic variation by comparing the genome of normal...