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The competition aims to analyze the data set that Florence Nightingale used to determine the causes of death of the British Army during the Crimean War.
Public engagement  15.06.2020

Rladies host contest to commemorate Florence Nightingale’s 200th anniversary

Ulises Gonzalez Herrera excavating Playa del Mango in 2018. | Picture by Luis Viera Sanfiel.
Research  12.06.2020

New study illuminates the history of the pre-Columbian settlement of the Caribbean

The way in which chromosomes occupy a 3-D space is crucial for regulating genome function and processes essential for life, such as DNA replication, transcription and DNA-damage repair.
Research  11.06.2020

New tool to film dynamic genome changes

Joaquín Arribas became the new IMIM director in March 2020 - just in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.
Community, Scientific life  09.06.2020

Joaquín Arribas (IMIM’s director): “We want to be the bridge between the research close to the patient and the PRBB high-tech”

IBE researchers have developed a method to determine the chimpanzee subspecies with affordable genomic analysis that can be used to conserve endangered species.
Public engagement  08.06.2020

When genomics helps save chimps

The human γTuRC structure seen by cryo-electron microscopy. Image from the Surrey lab.
Research  04.06.2020

Understanding the birth and rise of microtubules

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

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