November 2011

High alcohol consumption doubles the risk of gastric cancer

High consumption of alcohol (more than 60 grams per day) significantly increases the risk of gastric cancer. So concludes a study conducted by the Nutrition, Environment and Cancer research Group of the IDIBELL at the Catalan Institute of Oncology that has been published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.. The association between alcohol and gastric

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Pedro M. Fernández Salguero: “Transposons could represent up to 15% of the human genome”

The researcher at the University of Extremadura Peter M. Salguero Fernandez explained their latest advances in research on the role of transposons, short DNA sequences that move around the genome, on gene regulation. It was on October 28 in the cycle of seminars IDIBELL. Salguero Fernandez stressed the need to study this genetic material, “until

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