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Three new grants from the European Research Council for the Basque Country that amount to 7 million euros
01/31/2023In 2007, the European Commission created the European Research Council (ERC) with the aim of promoting excellent basic science in Europe, supporting the best researchers from all fields and of any nationality who wished to continue their research at the frontiers of knowledge. The ERC finances...
Webinar MSCA - Staff Exchanges
01/23/2023On January 25, the Basque Government together with the UPV/EHU and Ikerbasque organized a webinar on the Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions - Staff Exchanges financing program.
SE actions finance international and intersectoral exchanges, aimed at members of...
New research building
01/19/2023The new building is promoted by Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science, and it will house scientific groups from the Basque Country that work in key areas of research identified in the IKUR Strategy of the Basque Government. Specifically, it is expected to accommodate a total of 300...
The presence of a tick molecular receptor able to respond to signals from the host has been described
01/12/2023Ticks are an ancestral group of animals that can feed on a wide range of species, including primitive reptiles. This long co-evolutionary history between ticks and their different hosts has facilitated the development of communication pathways between the parasite and the animals it feeds on.
Ancestors of the 2.6 billion-year-old gene-editing tool CRISPR are resurrected
01/02/2023An international research group has reconstructed for the first time ancestors of the well-known CRISPR-Cas system from 2.6 billion years ago and has studied its evolution over time. The results suggest that the revitalized systems not only work, but are more versatile than current versions and...
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