May 22, 2020
The Orfeu Programme has carried out 20,000 PCR tests to date
The BIST centres Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG-CRG), part…
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April 9, 2020
Barcelona equips itself with a European first-class collaborative microscopy platform
The concerted action of nine research entities will allow the Catalan scientific ecosystem to have…
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April 8, 2020
PIC’s computing resource at the service of COVID-19 research
The Port d'Informació Científica (PIC), a research facility created by the High Energy Physics Institute (IFAE),…
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April 7, 2020
CRG, IBEC and IRB Barcelona labs repurposed for mass COVID-19 testing service
Three BIST centers —the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and…
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April 3, 2020
IRB Barcelona collaborates with Amazon to speed up the search for drugs against COVID-19
Structural Bioinformatics and Network Biology Laboratory at IRB Barcelona has developed a computational tool based on…
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April 3, 2020
Researchers at IBEC help identifying a drug in clinical phase that blocks the effects of SARS-Co-V2
IBEC researchers led by ICREA Research Professor Núria Montserrat, together with international collaborators, have identified…
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April 1, 2020
IFAE coordinates the FET-Open project AVaQus to develop new quantum computing technologies
AVaQus aims at a radical upgrade of present quantum annealing technology by engineering novel superconducting…
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March 31, 2020
Five BIST researchers win prestigious ERC Advanced Grants
Ben Lehner (CRG), Xavier Trepat (IBEC), Rubén Martín (ICIQ), Clivia Sotomayor-Torres (ICN2) and Eduard Batlle…
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March 17, 2020
BIST closes its offices and works remotely
Following recommendations by health authorities to stop the spread of COVID-19, the Barcelona Institute of…
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February 19, 2020
The research projects BioSpad and BioVac win the 2020 BIST Ignite Awards
The BioSpad project (ICFO / IFAE) develops more affordable brain diagnostic tests and the BioVac…
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