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Genes

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?

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