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08 March 2018

Lifestyle linked epigenetic differences found between higher and lower educated Dutch people

There are differences in DNA-methylation patterns on genes between higher and lower educated Dutch people that may be linked to lifestyle.
22 January 2018

Health-RI, Coreon, BBMRI-NL, PSI and NFU have recently submitted their comments on the article 29

Health-RI, Coreon, BBMRI-NL, PSI and NFU have recently submitted their comments on the article 29 working party guidelines on consent under regulation 2016/679...
17 November 2017

Workshop on translational research infrastructure hosted on HPC cloud

At the BioMedBridges symposium ‘Open bridges for life science data’, which was held on 17 and 18 November in Hinxton, UK, a workshop was organised on...
01 November 2017

Improving the legal framework for Dutch Human Tissue research

Research using human tissue specimens greatly contributes to a healthy and innovative research environment and optimal care for Dutch citizens.
01 November 2017

Cisca Wijmenga krijgt eervolle leerstoel

Het College van Bestuur van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen heeft Cisca Wijmenga benoemd als hoogleraar op de Lodewijk Sandkuijl Leerstoel. De universiteit...
19 April 2017

Biobank quality

Ensuring reproducibility and reliability of scientific work should be at the heart of medi­cal science. It is thus an issue of great concern for BBMRI.
15 March 2017

Biobanks, collections of human samples and associated health data – how to apply EU GDPR?

How is the EU General Data Protection Regulation expected to apply to biobanks, collections of human samples and associated health data?
24 February 2017

Fast, easy and reliable analysis pipeline for NGS data – also available for you

UMCG’s Genetics department has developed a routine in-house NGS DNA analysis pipeline, which is currently available for everybody.
08 February 2017

Close collaboration between TRAIT and BBMRI-NL

The first results of this collaboration now start to surface.
03 February 2017

Why am I shorter than you?

More than 200 scientists co-lead by Erasmus MC researchers assembled a study published in Nature with more than 700,000 participants to study changes in our...
27 January 2017

New statistical method that helps improve reproducibility of Omics research

BBMRI-NL publication in Genome Biology, January 27th, 2017
20 December 2016

Platform on responsible research infrastructure

Health research depends on data and tissue collected in health care. Should we stick with an opt-out system for such residual use, or should patients always...

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