Protein alteration in the family of lamins causes several diseases, known as laminopathies, such as progeria or precocious ageing.
Read moreA team of researchers from the Institute of Neurosciences (UBNeuro) and Institute of Complex Systems (UBICS) has demonstrated that neurons can be generated from skin cells of a human donor us...
Read moreA new study published in the journal Nature Genetics highlights the involvement of the intestine nervous system cells in Parkinson’s disease and it suggests the disease could be originated in ...
Read moreAn international collaboration, which included the involvement of the research team from the Institut de Neurociències (INC) and from the Department of Cellular Biology, Physiology and Immunology, ha...
Read moreThe Molecular and cellular neurobiotechnology group with the collaboration of the Nanobioengineering group, both of them at IBEC, have applied a new light-stimulated technique to modulate muscular act...
Read moreA study led by the researchers of our centre shows that microglia is a sensor of newborn neuron death and maintains the equilibrium between life and death
Read moreThe study shows that during the embryonic development of the brain, the cells that are between adjacent segments detect the mechanical forces generated during morphogenesis to regulate the balance bet...
Read moreResearchers from the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona (UBNeuro) have identified a potential therapeutic strategy to treat Alzheimer’s, according to a study published in Jour...
Read moreA researcher at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has participated in the study into the impairment of the dynamics of spines that receive information from other neurons
Read moreThe NanoBioCel group of the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has developed some lipid vesicles that have been shown to transfer genetic material efficiently and viably
Read moreResearchers at IRB Barcelona reveal that the protein NEK7 is relevant for the correct formation of neurons in the hippocampus, a region of the brain associated with memory. Animals without NEK7 may al...
Read moreFrom the cells of a patient with a rare neurodegenerative disease, Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS), researchers at IBEC have managed to generate neurons that also present parallel neuro...
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