- From telomeres to calorie restriction: research tries to fit together the puzzle of the many processes involved in ageing
09.12.2025
Cancer, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative conditions are rooted in ageing. But research in recent years has shown that ageing is not a single process but rather many different processes, and it’s time to understand how they all interact with each other. In other words, those who have discovered the puzzle pieces must now slot them together. […] - The latest research on the most lethal cancer: from an ‘app’ to estimate personalised risk to new, more effective drugs
24.11.2025
Pancreatic cancer is one of the biggest challenges oncology faces. It is on the rise, possibly also among young people, and its survival rate remains very low – less than 5% of patients live for five years after diagnosis. It is often detected in the advanced stage, when the tumour is no longer operable. The […] - New drug in trial for the main oncogene in pancreatic cancer: one small step for patients, one giant leap for research
21.10.2025
Pancreatic cancer poses biomedical challenges so complex that even advancements that represent modest improvements for patients are considered crucial in research. This is the case with the new drugs that target the oncogene KRAS, currently being trialled for this and other types of cancer: they are opening cracks in a decade-long impassable wall. Cracks that […] - From a Nobel Prize discovery to antibodies generating millions for a Spanish public research centre
10.10.2025
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has just been awarded to those who discovered how the body’s defences avoid attacking the body itself. The discoveries made by Shimon Sakaguchi, Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell “have been decisive for our understanding of how the immune system functions and why we do not all develop […] - Formative Seminars on Ethical and Legal Aspects of Research Involving Human Samples or Data (November 4, 13 and 25, 2025)
06.10.2025
- CNIO researchers create the ‘human repairome’, a catalogue of DNA ‘scars’ that will help define personalised cancer treatments
02.10.2025
You can always be judged by your scars. This is the idea that sums up one of the new breakthroughs in basic and biomedical research published today in the journal Science, an achievement of the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO). It is the “human REPAIRome” – a name that refers to the repair of […] - Albana Gattelli, Fundación Occident visiting researcher, will study at CNIO the relationship between fatty tissue and breast cancer
29.09.2025
Argentine researcher Albana Gattelli has just arrived at the National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) as a beneficiary of the latest edition of the Fundación Occident Visiting Researchers programme. Thanks to this programme, Gattelli will be collaborating with the Metabolic Interactions Group at CNIO, led by Guadalupe Sabio, until the end of October. Gattelli heads up […] - The latest advances in pancreatic cancer research will be presented at a congress organised by Fundación Ramón Areces with CNIO researchers
09.09.2025
Pancreatic cancer is one of the best-known tumours at a molecular level, yet its survival rate remains extremely low. Less than 5% of patients survive for five years following diagnosis. This has to do with late diagnosis, as most cases are detected when the tumour is no longer operable. Furthermore, when it comes to pancreatic […] - CNIO researcher develops a test aimed to detect early-stage tumors with a blood sample
31.07.2025
Current methods for cancer diagnosis are based on identifying biomarkers – molecules that reveal a particular state or process in the body – produced by the tumour or associated proteins. Not surprisingly, these markers are more abundant once the tumour has already developed significantly. And the more advanced the tumour, the more difficult it is […]