UB leads a project on childhood tuberculosis in Haiti in collaboration with companies, health organizations and NGOs

by Universitat de Barcelona

It is estimated that a third part of world’s population is infected by Mycobacterium tuberculosis; around nine million people get the disease, between 5 and 20 % of them are children

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New technology to personalised therapies designed to treat cancer

by IK4-TEKNIKER

The technology, which is in the automation phase, will allow the cells that express these markers to be immobilised, and the over-expression of markers in the cell membrane itself to be detected; it i...

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Telomeres are linked to the origins of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

by CNIO - Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas

A team of researchers from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) have now discovered that telomeres, the structures that protect the chromosomes, are at the origin of pulmonary fibrosis

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Lack of microbial diversity: a risk factor for chronic disease

by Vall d’Hebron

Loss of human microbiome diversity would explain reactions such as allergies or celiac disease which means that our body is reacting against bacteria we can find present in the environment but not in ...

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La melatonina podría servir para evitar la sepsis, primera causa de muerte en las UCIs hospitalarias

by Universidad de Granada

En un estudio realizado en ratones, científicos de la Universidad de Granada han logrado decodificar la respuesta inmunitaria en esta grave enfermedad e identificar las dianas terapéuticas de la mel...

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Una fórmula que combina plata y anís estrellado para combatir bacterias

by Fundación Andaluza para la Divulgación de la Innovación y el Conocimiento

La obtención de las nanopartículas resulta posible por un proceso sostenible que aúna la química con el respeto al medioambiente. Para ello, los investigadores procesan las semillas de anís estre...

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Identifican una molécula que podría utilizarse en el tratamiento del alcoholismo

by Hospital Regional Universitario de Málaga

Los resultados de la investigación, recién publicada en la revista Addiction Biology, han demostrado que la oleiletanolamida neutraliza los efectos tóxicos del alcohol en animales y reduce el deseo...

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Premio al Gregorio Marañón por un estudio sobre regeneración de nervios lesionados

by Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón

Este estudio, que ya ha demostrado su eficacia en modelo animal, podría ser de gran utilidad clínica para aquellos pacientes con lesiones del nervio periférico que sufren parálisis facial o lesion...

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Ferrer and IDIBELL develop EPICUP, the first epigenetic test for patients with cancer of unknown origin

by IBEC - Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya

IDIBELL and Ferrer have developed EPICUP in order to help diagnose primary tumor and therefore to the oncologist doctor can establish the most appropriate treatment regimen for each case

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European Nanomedicine Characterisation Laboratory is born

by European Commission - Joint Research Centre

The laboratory is a cooperative arrangement between Europe and the United States and the first European transnational infrastructure in nano-medicine

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The Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico integrates with the CRG to boost genome research in Barcelona

by Parc Científic de Barcelona

Currently, CNAG has twelve last-generation sequencing systems with a sequencing capacity of over 1000 Gbases per day. It also has a powerful computer cluster (with 1250 processors and 2.7 petabytes of...

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Cytes Biotechnologies amplía el capital en 500.000 euros

by Expansión

“Nuestra firma está especializada en patosis, células del hígado”, afirma Alberch, presidente del consejo. El experto asegura que es una aventura empresarial con muchas posibilidades. La produc...

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