Yesterday some lucky ERC staff members had the chance to go behind the scenes at Corentin Claeys Bouuaert's lab!
Financed by 🇪🇺EU funding, his team investigate the transmission of 🧬 DNA from one 👨 generation to 👶 another.
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1664578968333189120
Did you know that in order to transmit DNA to our descendants, our DNA strings get shuffled? This involves breaking and repairing the DNA. The "Broken Genome" project tries to better understand this process.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1664578972691189762
Research from the Claeys Bouuaert Lab could improve our understanding of DNA repair, and could also lead to a better understanding of fertility disorders.
Find out more about their work! 👉 http://perso.uclouvain.be/corentin.claeys/
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1664578980719075328
The lab is located in Belgium at @UCLouvain_be and its research group comes from countries such as 🇧🇪Belgium, 🇫🇷France, 🇪🇸Spain, 🇮🇳India, 🇱🇧Lebanon and 🇨🇳China.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1664578976633831426