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Obesity is a complex disease that is becoming increasingly prevalent in society and the accompanying conditions have a very negative impact on the quality of life and life expectancy of those affected. | Picture by Colin Behrens from Pixabay.

Research 03.06.2020

Chromosomal variants may explain the link between obesity and diseases such as asthma or diabetes

The speed with which research results about the coronavirus are going from bench to publication is like nothing we've ever seen before. But it has risks.

Scientific life 01.06.2020

The coronavirus that accelerated science like nothing before

Picture by Federico Giampieri from Unsplash.

Research 29.05.2020

Heat now more lethal than cold for people with respiratory diseases in Spain

PRBB residents at the 2019 OpenDay volunteers lunch.

Community 29.05.2020

The PRBB remains stable regarding the latest demographic data

Understanding how environmental information is converted into molecular information in sperm RNAs, and then transmit across generations, is the next exciting and unanswered question for this CRG team.

Research 28.05.2020

New therapeutic targets for infertility and cancer revealed

Txema's drawing.

Research 27.05.2020

Chimps and gorillas’ genomes could help better understand human tumours

Volunteers from the CRG are coming in everyday to the PRBB to run tests on the coronavirus.Volunteers from the CRG are coming in everyday to the PRBB to run tests on the coronavirus.

Community 25.05.2020

“You are never prepared for this” – an opinion article on the COVID-19 testing experience

The last "IMIM Seminars At Home" presented two of the Covid19 projects taking place at the IMIM. One focuses on drug development, the other relies on the immune response.

Research 22.05.2020

Drugs and antibodies: the strategies of two IMIM groups to block SARS-CoV-2

Ivermectin was recently shown to inhibit the replication of SARS-CoV-2 in vitro at very high doses, but this effect has not yet been studied in vivo. The new study will investigate this question in a randomised trial. | Picture by ISGlobal.

Research 21.05.2020

New study to assess the efficacy of ivermectin against COVID-19

The first 100% online CRG Scientific Coffee, about the citizen science project "Saca La Lengua", was a success.

Public engagement 20.05.2020

What can you do for science? The first online CRG Scientific Coffee

Researchers used light exposure to impress a complex pattern, spread across an area slightly smaller than the thickness of a human hair, onto a biofilm community, made up of hundreds of individual bacteria. | Picture by the UPF and UCSD.

Research 19.05.2020

DCEXS-UPF researchers show bacteria can store information in a similar way to neurons

Male lion at the Copenhagen Zoo in April 2014. | Picture by Ross Barnett, researcher at the GLOBE Institute and co-author of the study.

Research 18.05.2020

Researchers analyze the evolutionary history of the lion, key to its conservation in the future