The director of the Center for Animal Biotechnology and Gene Therapy of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Fàtima Bosch, explained her latest approaches to gene therapy at a conference on March 23 in the series of seminars IDIBELL. The objective of the research center directed by Bosch is to get very familiar with the disease […]
In order to achieve equal treatment and opportunities between men and women in the center, IDIBELL has launched the Equality Commission. The Equality Commission has been created with the aim of facilitating compliance with existing legislation on equality, through the drafting of the equality plan IDIBELL. Within its functions are to advice on issues related
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Laura and Joan are the protagonists of the story collection on research published by the Generalitat de Catalunya. At number 12 in the series “Laura and Joan at the service of a great milestone,” the young scientists help IDIBELL researchers, in the Bellvitge University Hospital, in their kidney transplantation research. El story is written by
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Cancer, the emperor of all diseases. With this title the TV3 space Millennium devoted its program on March 16th to cancer. After reviewing the biography of this disease, the host and program director, journalist Ramon Colom, moderated a chat about how they have evolved diagnoses and treatments, at what stage research is and what future
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On March 22 it was held in the University of Barcelona (UB) the 3rd Plenary Assembly of HUBC, the campus of international excellence for health of the UB. During session, it was presented the status of the 23 HUBc projects currently underway with a global funding of 15 M €. It was also approved a
The history of the vaccine Ruti against the latent tuberculosis infection would be enough to write a book. While Pere Joan Cardona was doing his phD, he made a revolutionary observation about how the tuberculosis bacilli can remain dormant in the lungs of people. At that time, he didn’t dare to make much noise with
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Cerebral edemas are accumulations of fluid into the intra- or extracellular spaces of the brain and it can result from several factors such as stroke or head trauma, among others. Cerebral edema is a serious problem in neurology. While in other organs swelling does not lead to an urgent situation, in the brain it leads
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On March 13th the conference hall of the Hospital Duran i Reynals (ICO) hosted the annual meeting of the European project Coltheres. This consortium involves hospitals and translational research centers in six European countries and aims to encourage clinical trials of personalized therapies in colon cancer. Coltheres will use colon cancers as a ‘test-bed’ to
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Language impairments have always been the objective of the research of Nadine Martin, director at the Eleanor M Saffran Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. She began studying the more theoretical aspect of language processing but in recent years has proposed to transfer this knowledge to improve diagnosis and treatment in patients with aphasia. She explained it
Retinoic acid (vitamin A) and steroids are hormones found in our body that protect against oxidative stress, reduce inflammation and are involved in cellular differentiation processes. One of the characteristics of tumors is that their cells have lost the ability to differentiate; therefore these hormones have useful properties to prevent cancer. Currently, retinoic acid and
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