March 2014

Antiviral therapy reduces risk if death by 25% in adults hospitalized with influenza

The study was conducted in 29,000 patients during H1N1 pandemic Antiviral treatment Article reference Effectiveness of neuraminidase inhibitors in reducing mortality in patients admitted to hospital with influenza A H1N1pdm09 virus infection: a meta-analysis of individual participant data. Online Journal comment Journal comment

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New advances in the study of megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy

Some types of leukodystrophies, that are neurodegenerative hereditary myelin disorders, are characterized by the presence of vacuoles in which myelin lamellae isolate CNS axons . The megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy (MLC), caused by mutations in the gene MLC1 and GlialCAM is a rare disease with appearance of this type of vacuoles, and currently there is no treatment

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Excess in the protein that causes Rett Syndrome damages neurons

The MECP2 protein controls the activity of hundreds of genes in neurons. When mutations cause loss of its activity appears Rett syndrome, a disease of neurodevelopment which is the second most common cause of mental retardation in females after Down syndrome. An increased activity of MECP2 could also alter neurons as men with extra copies

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Horizon H2020 Session. Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions

On Wednesday 5 March, the small hall of the University Hospital of Bellvitge (HUB) hosted a briefing on Sklodowska Marie Curie Actions of Horizon 2020 program of the European Union organized by the TTO IDIBELL. Aida Diaz, part of the team of European and International Service Projects AGAUR (SPEI-AGAUR) explained the different financing schemes for

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Idibell study part of first Transbio Sudoe collaboration project

The first Transbio Sudoe collaboration project has just been approved. It will be led byJulián Cerón, of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (Idibell), and Denis Dupuy, of the European Institute of Chemistry and Biology (IECB). The project is entitled Functional genomic analysis of the SM-like protein family in C. elegans and over the coming four

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Manel Esteller,Vanguardia Science Award

The researcher Manel Esteller, Director of Epigenetics and Cancer Biology program at the Institute of Biomedical Research of Bellvitge (IDIBELL ), ICREA researcher and professor of Genetics at the University of Barcelona has won the Vanguardia Award for Science 2013. The selected research work has been published in 2013 in the journal Genome Research and

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