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Depiction of RNA Polymerase II

21.10.2017

From genes to proteins… or to non-coding RNA

Escherichia coli is one of the bacteria that form our microbiota, along with Candida albicans and Staphylococcus aureus.

07.09.2017

A microcosm inside you

Image of 3D print of vessels of a healthy minipig eye.

15.04.2017

Organ bioengineering

Ionising radiation is used in industry for producing energy, verifying the integrity of materials and, very importantly, in medicine for diagnosing and treating disease. Picture by NASA.

29.06.2016

What do we know about radiation?

Open science implies making the whole scientific process, from the collection of data to its publication, accessible to all. Image by Mari Carmen Cebrián.

12.05.2016

Opening science

C.elegans is a 1mm worm that shares 35% of genes with humans and is widely used in research as a model system. Photo by Adam Klosin, CRG.

14.09.2014

An elegant worm

48h old zebrafish embryo displaying fluorescent sensory in neurons.

05.03.2014

Zebrafish, a transparent window to our biology

The use of animals, mostly rodents, is nowadays still esential for the development of new drugs to improve human health. Image by Rita Casas/PRBB. CC BY-NC-SA.

13.09.2013

Animals in biomedical research

MARBiobanc stores the biological samples that volunteers donate for research.

29.05.2013

What is a biobank?

Signal transduction in the cell is still a topic of intense research (Image from Skeeze at Pixabay).

21.05.2012

Signal transduction: How the cellular communication network works

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