Barcelona, 17 June, 2022.- In the course of 139 days, the GENIGMA video game for iOS and Android, created by a research team of the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG-CRG), threw down the #GenigmaChallenge gauntlet to players from all...

Barcelona, 14 June, 2022.- Cancer is increasingly prevalent in society and the efforts of the research community, doctors and administrations to find solutions to this disease are huge. However, it cannot be treated in a uniform way, as there are more than 200 types of cancer. In addition, the...

Barcelona, 9 June 2022.- Tomàs Marques-Bonet, head of the Comparative Genomics group with double affiliation at the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF) and the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG-CRG) and Magdalena Bermejo,...

Sevilla, 1 June 2022.- A scientific group led by the Doñana Biological Station – CSIC has sequenced, assembled, and annotated the genome of the Western Spadefoot toad (Pelobates cultripes) at high resolution. This amphibian inhabits mainly...

Barcelona, 12 May 2022.- An estimated 300 million people around the world are affected by one of the 6,000 rare diseases described so far. A disease is considered rare when it affects less than 1 in 2,000 individuals. Rare diseases cover many different forms of conditions as varied as metabolic...

Barcelona, 26 April 2022.- GENIGMA, a videogame for iOS and Android that enlists players from around the world to solve puzzles and advance cancer research, has resulted in 5,472 puzzles solved since the game first launched three months ago on January 27.  ...