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World Ovarian Cancer Day is commemorated on May 8. It is estimated that ovarian cancer will affect 3,600 women in Spain in 2022. Despite representing only 3% of all female tumors, it is the fourth leading cause of death from cancer in women and the leading cause of mortality from ovarian cancer in women... Read more
International DNA Day is celebrated on April 25 to commemorate the publication in the journal Nature, by scientists James Watson and Francis Crick, of the discovery of the structure of the DNA double helix in 1953, based on the research of Rosalind Franklin, specifically "Photograph Number 51" ... Read More
On April 15, the International Pompe Disease Day was celebrated in order to inform and raise awareness about this rare pathology of genetic origin. Pompe disease, also known as glycogenosis type II, is a metabolic disorder that causes muscle weakness due to a mutation of the Pompe mutation.... Read more
World Parkinson's Day is celebrated on April 11, coinciding with the anniversary of James Parkinson, a British neurologist who in 1817 discovered what at that time was called paralysis agitans and what we know today as Parkinson's disease. Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects the nervous system in a chronic and progressive manner, and ... Read More
The term Diabetes Mellitus (DM) describes a complex metabolic disorder characterized by chronic hyperglycemia as a result of insufficient insulin secretion and/or decreased tissue response to insulin, resulting in abnormally high blood glucose concentrations. The etiology of the disease is very ... Read More
Today, March 31, is World Colon Cancer Day, with the aim of raising awareness of the need to adopt healthy habits for the prevention of this tumor, as well as the importance of its early diagnosis. More than 37,000 people a year are diagnosed with colorectal cancer in our country, being the most common cause of ... Read more
APACI and Dreamgenics have signed a framework agreement of institutional collaboration to promote the genetic diagnosis of congenital cardiovascular diseases, as well as to develop research projects and training activities related to them. The Asociación de Padres y Amigos de Cardiopatías Congénitas (APACI) is an association of public utility, national and independent that watches over and promotes the ... Read more
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are diseases that affect the heart and blood vessels and are the leading cause of death worldwide with about 520 million people affected. CVDs include numerous and diverse pathologies, some of which are better known, such as myocardial infarction, heart failure or heart failure.... Read more
The United Nations General Assembly decided to proclaim in 2016, February 11 as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The main objective of this day is to achieve greater participation and inclusion of women and girls in the world of science and technology, ... Read More
CNVs (Copy Number Variations) are a type of submicroscopic-sized structural variants, such as deletions, duplications, insertions, inversions and translocations, which involve a change in copy number with respect to the reference genome (Figure 1). Although they are relatively common in the structure of our genomes and contribute greatly to the variability ... Read More