June 8, 2023. A team of scientists from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG) has discovered that the protein IL-17 plays a central role in skin ageing. The study, which was led by Dr. Holger Heyn, from CNAG, and Dr. Guiomar...

- The genomes of 233 primate species reveal key features of primate evolution, human disease and biodiversity conservation. - After generating the most complete catalogue of genomic information for primates ever produced, this project compared the genomes of 809 individuals from 233...

May 22, 2023. The Mediterranean lizard Podarcis lilfordi (Günther, 1874) is an endemic flagship species of the Balearic Islands. Currently confined in 43 isolated populations, distributed among the Cabrera archipelago and several islets surrounding Menorca and Mallorca, this insular species has...

Barcelona, 10 February, 2023.- The five-year survival rate after diagnosis ranging from 5% to 25% makes lung cancer the deadliest type of cancer. Researchers from the public and private sectors of nine European countries are partnering up for the LUCIA project (Understanding Lung Cancer-Related...

Barcelona, 6 February 2023.- Researchers at the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG-CRG) have recently published a study on methylation patterns using nanopore reads in the journal Bioinformatics Advances. The team has developed the cvlr tool that allows genome wide screening to identify...

Barcelona, 26 January, 2023.- The IRTA-CReSA group led by Dr. Fernando Rodríguez and Dr. Jordi Argilaguet has developed a vaccine prototype against the African swine fever (ASF), based on a live attenuated virus, the BA71ΔCD2. The study has been published recently in Plos Pathogens. This...