2014

Visual perception begins with the capture of light by the photoreceptor cells of the retina, rods and cones, which by an enzymatic amplification cascade convert it into an electrical signal which is transmitted to higher order neurons and brain. The photoreceptor cells measure and transmit at all times the intensity of light at each point […]

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Cancer in animals Animal study to better understand human tumors

The Mutua Madrileña Foundation in its XI Call for Research Grants, has selected a project aimed at personalizing the treatment of lung cancer led by the team leader of the ICO-IDIBELL chemoresistance group, Alberto Villanueva. The project is based on the personalization of cancer treatments for non-small cell lung (NSCLC) by the generation of mouse

The Spanish Association against Cancer (AECC) has awarded aid 1 million two hundred thousand euros to identify new therapeutic targets and prognostic markers in lung tumors poorly characterized. The project has duration of five years. Lung cancer is one of the tumors having higher mortality rates worldwide. Only in Spain each year about 20,000 people