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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 […]
Some people are not moved by music
Although it is not associated with any apparent biological advantages or useful value (such as money), music is ranked among the highest sources of pleasure. Music’s important role in our society and culture has led to the assumption that its ability to induce pleasure is universal. However, this assumption has never been empirically tested. On […]
PRECISESADS, a European project to search for new treatments for systemic autoimmune diseases
The project has more than 22 million euros of funding for the next 5 years Systemic autoimmune diseases (SAD) PRECISESADS Molecular map
Described the evolution of a family of proteins key to life
Article’s reference The Vertebrate RCAN Gene Family: Novel Insights into Evolution, Structure and Regulation
Confirmed the role of genes POLD1 and POLE in hereditary colorectal cancer and in cases of colonic polyposis
The journal of Human Molecular Genetics publishes this week a study led by Laura Valle and Ignacio Blanco, with the collaborations of other members of the Hereditary Cancer Program of the ICO IDIBELL and researchers from Valencia. The article provides new evidence on the role of mutations in genes POLD1 POLE and in cases of […]
Fundación Sandra Ibarra and Philips fund a research project about nutrition and breast cancer of ICO-IDIBELL
On February 13 took place the event for awarding the Philips Grant for Research in Nutrition and Breast Cancer of Fundación Sandra Ibarra at the headquarters of the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) at L’Hospitalet de Llobregat. The project awarded with the grant is entitled “Biomarkers of diet and metabolic risk in patients with breast […]
Researchers associate telomere length with risk of developing cancer in hereditary colorectal cancer
PLoS ONE publishes this week a study led by researcher Laura Valle, Hereditary Cancer Program ICO- IDIBELL, which shows that presence of longer telomeres is associated with increased risk of developing cancer in hereditary colorectal cancer without identified genetic cause. The study involved several members of the Hereditary Cancer Program and Biomarkers and Susceptibility Unit […]