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The PRBB consolidates its internationalization

PRBB Communications

Take a look at the new issue of Ellipse, the monthly bilingual publication of the PRBB. We have now reached 50 editions!!!! Check out how the demography of the PRBB has changed over the last 5 years, to reach 50 different nationalities amongst our 1,345 residents. Actually, currently 41% of the researchers at the park are non-Spanish! How does the biological clock controls skin stem cell activation? And did you know the ‘out-of-Africa’ route was through Arabia, and not Egypt? CRG researchers show how it is possible to predict the phenotype from individual genomes; an international group of scientists ask … Continue reading The PRBB consolidates its internationalization

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Where you live may determine your work-related health

PRBB Communications

In the context of the current global economic crisis, it escapes nobody how important it is to have a job and the effect of a country’s welfare system on those who don’t have one. But perhaps one doesn’t always think on the effect this can have, specifically, on one’s health. A recent review published in Health Policy shows how country-level welfare regimes may be an important determinant of employment-related health. The authors analysed 104 original articles published between 1988 and 2010 on job insecurity and precarious employment. They classified each study according to a six-regime welfare state typology: Scandinavian, Bismarckian … Continue reading Where you live may determine your work-related health