INFRAFRONTIER

The CNB hosts the Spanish node of the European scientific research infrastructure (ESFRI) called INFRAFRONTIER, which includes the European Mouse Mutant Archive (EMMA), and whose objective is the generation, phenotyping, cryopreservation, organised archiving and coordinated distribution of mouse lines of interest in biomedicine. EMMA has more than 8,400 mouse mutant lines cryopreserved and is composed of 16 nodes that are present in 13 European countries. More than 550 of those mouse lines are cryopreserved and offered from the Spanish node at CNB. The CNB mouse embryo cryopreservation facility has signed scientific cooperation agreements with the Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO) and with the Centre for Animal Resources and Development (CARD) at the University of Kumamoto (Japan) for the archiving and distribution of mutant mouse lines of interest in biomedical research.

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