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Tuesday, 12 May 2015
GCAT Video
GCAT is 50,000 people participating in the same biomedical research project to help researchers answer important questions about our health and the treatment of illnesses.
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Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Radio Report on the Genomes for Life Project
Sara Gutiérrez y Marta Grífols, two students from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) Journalism course make a radio report about the GCAT.
This report is in Catalan.
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Thursday, 24 July 2014
Two new studies show the benefits of the Mediterranean diet
They say we are what we eat, and most of us think that following a Mediterranean diet is healthy. Now, two new studies carried out in Spain have provided evidence to show that the Mediterranean diet does help to protect you from illness, especially heart and respiratory disease, and that people who follow it live longer.
Read more ">Two new studies show the benefits of the Mediterranean diet"
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Wednesday, 14 May 2014
The European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA) opens a branch in Barcelona
With modern biomedical science producing huge quantities of data there is an urgent need to store them in a safe and organized way. A new project will help to store these massive amounts of information in Barcelona so they can be used by scientists all over Europe and the rest of the world. The information obtained from the 50,000 participants of the GCAT project will also be stored here to be available to researchers along with other collections of samples
Read more ">The European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA) opens a branch in Barcelona"
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Friday, 21 March 2014
The GCAT Pilot Study gets underway this month
Before the full Genomes for Life (GCAT) project starts to recruit 50,000 people from the Catalan territory a pilot study will be run to make sure everything is working as smoothly as possible.
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Monday, 9 December 2013
Director of the Dutch Genomes of Holland Project visits the IMPPC
Cisca Wijmenga, Director of the Department of Genetics at the University of Gröningen in the Netherlands visited the IMPPC on 9 December
Read more ">Director of the Dutch Genomes of Holland Project visits the IMPPC"
