News
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Monday, 16 September 2019
GCAT and the Regulatory Genomics Group at the IGTP-IJC have developed a new method to make checking whether samples that have had RNA
GCAT and the Regulatory Genomics Group at the IGTP-IJC have developed a new method to make checking whether samples that have had RNA sequenced are from related individuals. They have shown that it can be used on large data sets of RNA sequencing information to check if samples are from related individuals or not, or to reconstruct family trees.
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Monday, 1 April 2019
Application of genomic disease risk profiling for the optimization of current Cancer Screening Programs
GCAT joined the European Colon cancer experts at the 2nd TRANSCOLONCAN COST Action meeting, at SKopja, North Macedonia, focused on intratumor heterogeneity (ITH) and single cell genomics applied to a tumor profiling.
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Monday, 11 March 2019
2nd Mini-symposium in OMICs in Cancer research
The Institut de Recerca Vall d'Hebron has organized the 2nd Mini-symposium in OMICs in Cancer research.
It will be held at Barcelona, 19th March 2019, in Hospital General Vall d'Hebron. The event is free but registration is needed.
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Wednesday, 6 February 2019
Participants in the GCAT Project take a look behind the scenes
GCAT participants visited the National Centre for Genomics Analysis- Centre for Genomic Regulation (CNAG-CRG) and Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC), both centres are collaborating with the project GCAT.
Read more ">Participants in the GCAT Project take a look behind the scenes"
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Wednesday, 28 November 2018
A scientific work of the GCAT has been chosed best article of the month of the JMG journal and is Cover Image of the paper edition
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Tuesday, 27 November 2018
First genetic map of the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Read more ">First genetic map of the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder"
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Monday, 5 November 2018
Understanding multimorbidity to improve prevention
In a recent collaborative work, led by researchers from GCAT (Genomes for Life, IGTP), IDIBELL-ICO (ProCURE, Oncobell programs) and IDIAP Jordi Gol, the main diseases and associations that contribute significantly to the appearance of multimorbidity are identified. The study also points out inherited genetic factors that have an influence on the appearance of multimorbidity.
Read more ">Understanding multimorbidity to improve prevention"
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Monday, 22 October 2018
Germans Trias present in the second edition of HEALTHIO
Professionals from the Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital and Research Institute take part in HEALTHIO
Read more ">Germans Trias present in the second edition of HEALTHIO"
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Wednesday, 18 July 2018
Early dinner reduces the risk of breast and prostate cancer, according to a study by ISGlobal Barcelona
A study by the Institute of Global Health of Barcelona (ISGlobal) concludes that having dinner early, or at least two hours before going to sleep, reduces by 20% the probability of suffering from breast and prostate cancer compared to people who do it after ten o'clock at night and they go to bed immediately after the night meal.
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Friday, 8 June 2018
Science2Society workshop
The workshop 'Improving the transfer of technology in Europe' within the framework of Science2Society, a project aimed at improving the efficiency of the European innovation system by developing good practices on the transfer of technology, took place on June 8.
