Flomics Investment opportunity

by Flomics Biotech SL

4 years ago
investment, genomics, Flomics, liquid biopsy, colon cancer, lung

Flomics Biotech, a startup from the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) operating in the genomics and liquid biopsy fields is excited to announce the launch of its seed investment round of 500.0...

Interferon, the key to many of the worst cases of COVID-19 in young people

by Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge

4 years ago
Interferon, young people, covid-19, pneumonia, cytokine, antibodies, genomics

The international consortium Covid Human Genetic Effort has discovered mutations in eight genes involved in the interferon signalling pathway, the first element in the antiviral response, in young ...

CBGP team awarded Chan Zuckerberg grant to support scientific software for phylogenomic analysis

by Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas CBGP

5 years ago
phylogenetic, genomics, scientific software

Today, CBGP (UPM-INIA) researcher Dr. Huerta-Cepaswas awarded with a grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) to support open source software essential to scientific research.

The CBGP organizes the CBGP_S3-Forum on 'Novel Genome Editing Technologies: Evolution and Revolution'

by Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas CBGP

5 years ago
tecnologies, genomics, CBGP-S3-Forum

The recently launched CBGP-S3-Forum aims to provide the social/scientific environment to discuss about scientific/technological progresses and legal policies that will be essential for the development...

The 3rd European Conference on Translational Bioinformatics brings together more than 130 experts

by IMIM - Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques

7 years ago
translational research, precision medicine, bioinformatics, genomics

Attendees discussed the recent advances in information technologies that are facilitating translational research and precision medicine.

Researchers find the ancestral function of the retinoic acid, an essential molecule in the evolution of vertebrates

by Universitat de Barcelona

7 years ago
retinoic acid, genomics, evolution, animal development, vertebrates

The new research study reveals that the primary function of retinoic acid was to control cell differentiation and to ease the creation of neurons in the right place and time. According to the lecturer...

A new study changes the scientific paradigm on the evolutionary origins of the brain in vertebrates

by Universitat de Barcelona

8 years ago
brain, evolution, genomics, vertebrates

An international team has published in the journal PLOS Biology, an article which alters the classic model of the brain formation process in vertebrates and its biological evolution. The new study, co...

IRB Barcelona opens brand new laboratory for analysis of genomic 'big data'

by Parc Científic de Barcelona

8 years ago
bioinformatics, genomics, DNA, cancer, mutation

Researcher in the field of bioinformatics and genomics Fran Supek is starting his Genome Data Science (aGENDAS) laboratory at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), within the Str...

The CNAG-CRG leads a study that shows that cryopreserved material can be readily combined with conventional single cell sequencing methods

by Parc Científic de Barcelona

8 years ago
genomics, cells, tissue, cryopreservation

Researchers from the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG-CRG) have substantially broadened the applicability of single cell genomics by combining cell and tissue cryopreservation with workflo...

The fundamental causes of human ageing explained

by UPF - Universitat Pompeu Fabra

8 years ago
natural selection, human ageing, genomics, mutations

Natural selection favours fragile and unhealthy old age if it is due to mutations that are beneficial during childhood. As of 40-50 years of age, natural selection is blind because we have already pas...

AdaptNET, the first thematic network to face the challenges of research on adaptation genomics

by Universitat de Barcelona

8 years ago
Evolutionary Biology, genomics, AdaptNET

At the present moment, the new techniques of New Generation Sequencing (NGS) allow touching on these evolutionary questions at a scale that was unthinkable, but these technologies present a challenge ...

IRB Barcelona intensifies its research on cancer with two new recruits

by IRB Barcelona - Instituto de Investigación Biomédica

8 years ago
cancer, genomics, biocomputation, Núria López-Bigas, Fran Supek

As of November, Núria López-Bigas, winner of the 2016 Banco Sabadell Foundation Prize for Biomedical Research, will join IRB Barcelona to continue her research on cancer using computational biology....