Genes Archives - El·lipse

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

Neurodegenerative diseases often run with protein aggregation; but is that aggregation the cause of the disease? Researchers at the CRG have used deep mutagenesis to get closer to the answer. Photo by pan xiaozhen on Unsplash.

22.10.2019

New insights into protein aggregation and neurodegenerative diseases

David Martin and Xavier Franch, researchers at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE).

25.06.2019

“We have redefined the process of metamorphosis”

The flu virus, influenza, have a simple structure but can cause 500.000 deaths in the world every season.

05.01.2019

The flu: a neverending story

One of the speakers explained quantum physics using nanoLEGO.

20.12.2018

From LEGO to transgenic food: youth and science at the PRBB

Bernhard Payer is group leader of the Epigenetic reprogramming in embryogenesis and the germline Lab.

03.11.2018

Bernhard Payer (CRG): “In academic research you do what excites you, not what you’re told”

Depiction of RNA Polymerase II

21.10.2017

From genes to proteins… or to non-coding RNA

Photo by Paweł Furman on Unsplash

15.02.2017

Genes, kings and impostors

The fruit fly was chosen to be the first multicellular organism to have its genome fully sequenced back in 2000 (Image by the Oregon State University at Flickr).

08.02.2011

Of flies and men

Sometimes DNA mutations cause subtle changes in how a protein works, but others lead to changes in the way a cell behaves (Image by Gerald, from Pixabay).

11.06.2010

SNPs: variation on a theme

17.11.2009

DNA, the molecular basis of life

Alternative splicing helps to increase protein diversity by using genetic elements of a gene in different constellations. Plattenbau.store images

18.06.2007

What’s splicing?