The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) is an international coalition of over 140 member organizations dedicated to improving human health by maximizing the potential of genomic medicine. The group’s diverse membership includes...

The ICTS map is composed by facilities of different scientific areas ranging from the life sciences to astrophysics distributed throughout the Spanish territory and devoted to cutting-edge and the highest quality research and technological development.   The update of the map includes 29 ICTS...

Royal Society Open Science is a new open access journal publishing high-quality original research across the entire range of science on the basis of objective peer-review. It belongs to the publishing group of the Royal Society, a self-governing fellowship of many of the world’s most distinguished...

A team led by Miguel Pérez-Enciso, ICREA researcher at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and at the Centre for Research in Agrigenomics (CRAG), has obtained the first partial genome sequence of an ancient pig. Researchers from the CNAG and the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Pompeu...

The 2010 Malaspina Expedition is an interdisciplinary research project with the overall goals to assess the impact of global change on the oceans and explore their biodiversity. Led by Carlos Duarte from the CSIC, the expedition collected more than 2,000 samples of microorganisms from different...

A team led by Oregon Health & Science University has sequenced and annotated the genome of the only ape whose DNA had yet to be sequenced — the gibbon, an endangered small ape that inhabits the tropical forests of Southeast Asia. Tomàs Marquès-Bonet, ICREA Research Professor and leader of the...