Infants have an innate ability to recognize music, especially the changes in tone, but also in melody. From this idea, the professor in psychology at the University of Toronto, Sandra Trehub, explained how music plays a key role in the development of children and language acquisition. Trehub gave a lecture at Cosmocaixa on February 19, […]
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Researchers at IDIBELL and CIBERER Virginia Nunes and Miguel López de Heredia have collected data from 400 patients with Wolfram syndrome published worldwide in the last fifteen years to better understand the natural history of disease. The findings lead them to propose a revision of the diagnostic criteria of the disease because 15% of paediatric
About 15% of patients with Wolfram syndrome do not meet current diagnostic criteria Read More »
February 28th, World Rare Diseases Day Genetics of rare diseases From laboratory to clinic The most common rare disease Epigenetic approach New initiatives
IDIBELL Researchers explain the latest advances in research on rare diseases Read More »
The project ‘Healthy aging eye to correct visual impairment and eye diseases: an epigenetic approach’, led by researcher Maria Berdasco of the epigenetic group at IDIBELL has been selected by the RecerCaixa program promoted by the Associació Catalana d’Universitats Públiques (ACUP) and La Caixa. On February 22 at 11:30 the Comoscaixa Auditory will held the
RecerCaixa funds an IDIBELL project on active and healthy aging Read More »
Bioinformatics is an area of research in applied computer science and information technology used for the treatment of biological data. BiB promoters consider this area as strategic science that makes sense of the vast amounts of biological data generated. So BiB proposes to boost this area of specialization that is necessary in all areas of
The ability to understand the music could be innate in humans. Babies react and change of mood when they hear their mothers sing, later they dance to music and after their first birthday, children begin to participate through song. The psychologist Sandra Trehub, University of Toronto, studies music and listening skills of infants and children.
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Deep brain stimulation has been used as a treatment of neural diseases for over twenty years. This is the case of Parkinson’s disease. The aim of the researcher at the University of Magdeburg Marcus Heldmann is to find new therapeutic targets to treat other disorders such as alcoholism or obsessive-compulsive disorder. He has explained his
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Several IDIBELL professionals are involved in an initiative to improve the communication with the institute publics. This “internal correspondents” bring together workers from different categories and, in some cases, are hired by the partner institutions (Bellvitge University Hospital, Catalan Institute of Oncology and University of Barcelona). The belonging to this group is open to any
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The Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) has awarded the company Reig Jofré a bidding to acquire a diagnostic system of endometrial cancer applicable to primary health care centres. This is the first experience of innovative pre-commercial public procurement in the health sector made in Catalonia. The product, which is named GynEC-DX, will be tested in
Bellvitge Hospital applies innovative public procurement system in the field of health Read More »
