Microorganisms that live on and within our bodies impact almost all of our biological processes. Many areas of research are changing with the realisation that microbiota, their genes and the way they interact with host genetics, are integral to in both basic and applied biology, with direct...

DYNAMITE is the acronym for the project 'Systems-level tracking of dynamics in T cell expansion for precision oncology'. DYNAMITE aims to enhance the success of immune checkpoint inhibition (ICI) therapy in colorectal cancer (CRC) by developing a novel class of predictive biomarkers. While ICI has...

Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC) is considered a ‘recalcitrant’ disease, characterized by poor survival outcomes and lack of effective treatment options. Recently, the addition of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) to chemotherapy has become standard of care for advanced SCLC, providing a modest...

The European Rare Diseases Research Alliance (ERDERA) aims to improve the health and well-being of the 30 million people living with a rare disease in Europe, by making Europe a world leader in Rare Disease (RD) research and innovation, to support concrete health benefits to rare disease patients,...

The project aims to sequence the genome of four drafonfly species collected in 2023, preserved in liquid nitrogen and stored at -80°C at BEECA-UB, ensuring high-quality DNA. 2-4 adults per species were captured in Montseny and Peguera. Species are Onychogomphus forcipatus, O. uncatus (Gomphidae,...

The sonso is a unique fish of high economic interest, especially in Catalan regions where it is highly valued culinary. Generating an annotated genome at a chromosomal scale will allow understanding the evolutionary relationship with other species, and even more importantly, it will aid future...