Identified the key that may enable the design of new antibiotics

by Vall d’Hebron

A study of the Infection Systems Biology Laboratory, of the Microbiology Group of Vall d'Hebron Research Institute recently published in Nature Communications would lay the groundwork for the design o...

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A minimalist theory to predict protein movements

by IRB Barcelona - Instituto de Investigación Biomédica

Scientists at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm develop a new method that predicts the way in which proteins move to exer...

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A key gene in the development of coeliac disease has been found in ‘junk' DNA

by Universidad del País Vasco

Science has published the study in which three researchers of the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country have participated. 40% of the population carry the main risk factor for coeliac disease but o...

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US has granted a patent from the CSIC developed in the CNB

by Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB)

The patent is a method to integrate data from mass spectrometry which greatly increases the performance in identifying peptides and proteins.

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Protein that improves mobility after spinal cord injuries

by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

An international team of scientists coordinated by UAB and CIBERNED researcher Rubén López Vales has established that interleukin-37 (IL-37), a cytokine belonging to the interleukin-1 family, promot...

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New tools for the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis in its early stages

by Vall d’Hebron

After analyzing each of the samples from this study, the researchers have identified the proteins that can predict the risk of developing multiple sclerosis. With these data they have also built a sta...

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New genes formed continuously allowing acquisition of novel functions during evolution

by IMIM - Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques

Why are there genes that can only be detected in humans or chimpanzees and that cannot be found in any other species? How are new genes formed during evolution?

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Researchers find out cause of mutations which are not in genetic material

by IBEC - Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya

The gene identified (referred ADAR1) regulates the level of mutations in RNA, and it is a publisher gene. People with an excess of this gene have an imbalance in the composition of this molecule just ...

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The p16 protein is not a good marker of progression for cervical cancer

by ISGlobal - Instituto de Salud Global de Barcelona

A large prospective study shows that p16 has limited value in predicting the outcome of cervical lesions. The authors conclude that p16 expression has little predictive value in the clinics, but it ca...

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Quantification of therapeutic targets by mass spectrometry

by Vall d’Hebron

Research at VHIO has for the first time evidenced the clinical utility of mass spectrometry in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded breast cancer tissue samples. VHIO researchers have shown the quantific...

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Inntags: new tools for innocuous protein tagging

by IRB Barcelona - Instituto de Investigación Biomédica

A study conducted in collaboration with the CSIC, BSC and UB provides a new approach to follow cellular proteins more closely. The target proteins labelled with inntags do not show detectable alterati...

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Una proteína permite a las células madre del cerebro generar neuronas

by Secuvita

Un equipo de investigadores de la Unidad de Neurobiología Molecular de la Universitat de València ha descubierto una proteína que permite a células madre del cerebro generar neuronas, según ha in...

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