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Exposure to green spaces has been associated with a later age of menopause. Photo by Klimkin on Pixabay,
19.02.2020

Spending time in green spaces could delay your menopause

Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo, researcher at IBE, was the mission commander of the latest 'trip to Mars' in Astroland, where he collected environmental samples to analyse.
18.02.2020

A scientific field trip to Mars… on Earth

During the last 10 years, eating disorders cases have doubled globally. | Picture by Tom Sodoge on Unsplash.
13.02.2020

Food addiction exists, and shares common features with drug addiction

Researchers find that NFAT5 helps control the levels of interferons during the immune response. Image by allinonemovie from Pixabay.
12.02.2020

New key element to control interferons during the immune response

EMBL Barcelona and IBEC found it interesting to use their synergy to start a collaboration and they decided to do it with a symposium that will bring together international experts in multicellular systems.
03.02.2020

EMBL Barcelona co-organizes a Conference on Engineering in Multicellular Systems

The only intervention that has been proved to work in order to live longer is caloric restriction. | Pictures by Priscilla Du Preez and Otavio Matos from Unsplash.
29.01.2020

Ana Maria Cuervo (Albert Einstein College of Medicine): “Food clocking helps clean our cells”

The EGA (European Genome-Phenome Archive) is a kind of showcase for genomic studies worldwide. | Picture by Daniel von Appen from Unsplash.
27.01.2020

EGA: repository, distributor and science accelerator

Every 4 seconds a new case of Alzheimer's is diagnosed in the world. The PENSA Study aims to stop cognitive impairment in stages prior to the onset of dementia.
20.01.2020

PENSA Study: a commitment to primary prevention in Alzheimer’s

Women have two copies of chromosome X, while men have one X and one Y. This little Y chromosome holds the key to why men have higher risk of cancer. Photo by Kate Whitley CC-BY.
17.01.2020

Six Y chromosome genes could explain men’s increased risk of cancer

The leftover biological material that is donated is stored in biobanks, installations that keep collections of blood, urine, DNA and tissues, as well as all its associated information. | Pictures by Markus Spiske and Creators Collective from Unsplash.
03.01.2020

The Spanish Biobank Network, 10 years coordinating the collection of samples for research

20.12.2019

ERC grants and genomics hints into bird extinctions

Picture obtained by the NASA Hubble telescope. The new algorithm, designed by the Notredame laboratory, does for the genome the same as this telescope to the space.
13.12.2019

A Hubble telescope for our genes: a new algorithm compares almost 1.5 million DNA sequences

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