Research
Research
18
Sep
2026
Why I keep going back to Ukraine during wartime
The CRG's Julia Rühle participated in the annual BDS3 event in Ukraine. Here’s her firsthand account of this year’s experience.
07
Sep
2026
Treat education as infrastructure during wartime, say researchers in Ukraine
Study in Nature Genetics describes lessons learned from organising education and training in wartime
03
Sep
2026
Predictive tools can confuse rare mutations with dangerous ones
Fifty of the world's most used genetic programs call some mutations more dangerous than they are and vice versa, finds study
28
Aug
2026
Self-blinking ‘fairy lights’ allow DNA to be imaged at double helix width resolution
The advance is described today in the journal Molecular Cell and could help diagnose and treat cancer
27
Aug
2026
The glue that holds the body together also helps swallow dead cells
The discovery could lead to new clues for understanding chronic inflammatory conditions.
19
Aug
2026
The restless fish missing tiny genetic fragments in the brain
How a stolen laptop and trips across Europe helped a young scientist trace restlessness in zebrafish back to the tiniest fragments of genetic code in the vertebrate brain. This article is part of...
12
Aug
2026
First 3D map of ovary throughout reproductive lifespan reveals it counts its own eggs
A whole mouse ovary, made transparent and imaged in three dimensions. Each bright sphere is one of the roughly 5,000 egg cells a mouse is born with and will ever have. Larger ones are already...
06
Aug
2026
Study maps how a plant's drought sensor can be fine-tuned
Researchers create 3,500 versions of a protein which tells plants they are thirsty; could lead to new strategies to engineer drought-resistant crops
03
Aug
2026
Life speaks one universal language to activate genes. It speaks many more to silence them
The result of a 2-billion-year conflict between genomes and the parasitic elements are described in Nature Genetics
15
Jul
2026
ENCODE maps more than 92 million DNA elements that control human genes
A study in Nature produced the most complete atlas to date of the DNA regions that switch human genes on and off
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The CRG's Julia Rühle participated in the annual BDS3 event in Ukraine. Here’s her firsthand account of this year’s experience.
Study in Nature Genetics describes lessons learned from organising education and training in wartime
Fifty of the world's most used genetic programs call some mutations more dangerous than they are and vice versa, finds study
The advance is described today in the journal Molecular Cell and could help diagnose and treat cancer
The discovery could lead to new clues for understanding chronic inflammatory conditions.
How a stolen laptop and trips across Europe helped a young scientist trace restlessness in zebrafish back to the tiniest fragments of genetic code in the vertebrate brain. This article is part of...
A whole mouse ovary, made transparent and imaged in three dimensions. Each bright sphere is one of the roughly 5,000 egg cells a mouse is born with and will ever have. Larger ones are already...
Researchers create 3,500 versions of a protein which tells plants they are thirsty; could lead to new strategies to engineer drought-resistant crops
The result of a 2-billion-year conflict between genomes and the parasitic elements are described in Nature Genetics
A study in Nature produced the most complete atlas to date of the DNA regions that switch human genes on and off