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Identified a key protein in maintaining the identity of B lymphocytes
Researchers of the Epigenetics and Cancer Biology Program at IDIBELL, led by researcher Maribel Parra, have identified a transcriptional repressor, histone deacetylase HDAC7, involved in the identity of B cells, the cells responsible to create antibodies in our immune system. The results of the study, published in PLoS Genetics, show that HDAC7 is expressed specifically […]
The use of more potent antithrombotic drugs is recommended in high-risk heart attack patients
The Cardiovascular Research Laboratory of the IDIBELL led by the cardiologist of the Bellvitge University Hospital José Luis Ferreiro has conducted a study on the effect of antiplatelet drugs given to high risk patients suffering from acute myocardial infaction (heart attack) in the context of the Infarction Code. The study concludes that when patients arrive […]
Manel Esteller, Rey Jaime I Prize in basic research
The director of the Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Program at IDIBELL, Professor of Genetics at the University of Barcelona and ICREA Research Professor, Manel Esteller has been awarded with the Rey Jaime I Prize in basic research in its 25th edition. The Rey Jaime I Awards Foundation celebrates its 25th anniversary with the participation of […]
Music and brain at CosmoCaixa
Next Tuesday June 4 at 7 pm on CosmoCaixa puts an end to the cycle of conferences “The music and its impact on the body and mind” with a panel discussion on the future of research in music. In the discussion will participate the cycle coordinator, the researcher of the IDIBELL and the University of […]
Carlos Macaya: ”Can our Health Systems assume these new techniques in interventional cardiology?”
By 1950, cardiovascular disease mortality was 450 per 100,000 inhabitants. The advent of new techniques, new drugs and the identification of risk factors have made this figure has been reduced by 300%. The cardiologist at Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Carlos Macaya has reviewed the milestones of interventional cardiology on May 24 at a conference […]
Josef Rauschecker: ”The language was totally new in nature. We study at what point, evolution separated us from the other primates”
What stage of evolution, the human brain developed the language and the ability to make music? What made us different from other primates? These are some of the questions that drive research Josef Rauschecker Department of Neuroscience at Georgetown University, Washington. Rauschecker explained their progress on May 17 at a conference cycle framed within IDIBELL […]
Developed a model of radiotherapy in mice to test new chemotherapy treatments for brain metastases
Researchers of the IDIBELL have developed a preclinical therapeutic model to test new treatments for brain metastases in breast cancer patients. The results of the study are published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. Brain metastasis affects 30% of breast cancer patients who develop metastases. Currently the treatment of choice is radiotherapy. Only in […]
Josep Marco: ”we have an approximate system to measure amounts”
One, two, three… many. Studies with neuroimaging techniques confirm that the representation we make of numbers follows this pattern. Humans have specialized neurons that activates in front of one thing, two things, and three things. The rest are approximate representations. Josep Marco, researcher at the group of Brain Plasticity and Cognition at IDIBELL and the […]