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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

Untrained staff performing the test will get an unequivocal result from the instrument. | Picture by the UPF.

Research 15.05.2020

InstaCOVID19: UPF develops rapid diagnostic tests for SARS-CoV-2

Edgar Garriga, a PhD student at the CRG, is one of the coronamakers who are voluntarily producing material for health care workers.

Community 14.05.2020

Coronamakers and their 3D printers supply sanitary material to fight COVID-19

So far, two recent studies suggest that hydroxychloroquine may be effective in reducing the viral load of SARS-CoV-2, although the results are inconclusive and further research is needed.

Research 13.05.2020

New study to assess the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 during pregnancy

Research 13.05.2020

Memory alterations described in mice with Down syndrome

Exceptional prevention measures are coming into effect for the entire PRBB community. These measures are accompanied by new signalling with clear messages. Following the measures, self-responsibility and respect for all residents will be key. | Picture by Albert Català.

Community 12.05.2020

The PRBB gets ready for a phased comeback of its residents

The latest book by physicist Ricard Solé, a researcher at the IBE, takes us into the world of viruses.

Public engagement 11.05.2020

Viruses: complex adaptive systems