Catalan research centers contribute to international breakthrough on cancer
Investigation finds that genetic mutations could be detected decades before tumor appears
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Catalan researchers awarded €8.3M in EU funds to study leukemia
European Research Council backs project focused on Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Leukaemia’s genome is sequenced for the first time by scientists from Barcelona and Oviedo
Researchers from Barcelona’s Hospital Clínic and the University of Oviedo (Asturias) have sequenced Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia’s entire genome for the first time. Mutations in four genes have been identified as one of the illness triggers. The study was published last Sunday in the prestigious journal ‘Nature’.