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Anorexia nervosa and obesity share common characteristics
Groups with extreme weight conditions can share biological risk factors and neurocognitive characteristics Alterations in neuronal circuits related to motivation and reward Common characteristics between anorexia nervosa and obesity Reference of the paper
IDIBELL and Mind the Byte signed collaboration agreement
IDIBELL and the company Mind the Byte have signed a cooperation agreement to carry out joint research activities. The framework agreement of cooperation includes the exchange of research personnel, the project development and the use of scientific facilities. Innovative technology to facilitate research Mind the Byte is a Catalan R&D company located on the Bellvitge […]
Researchers have developed a computer application to identify representative proteins in metastatic breast cancer
Researchers from the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) have created a software application called MinerProt, which allows the classification of proteins by their function. The system, created in collaboration with researchers from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), is useful to prioritize the importance of some proteins. The study was […]
Michael Aschner: “We want to develop strategies for neuroprotection from Manganese”
Last July 13th, Michael Aschner PhD, from the Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville (USA), gave the IDIBELL seminar “From worms to humans: mechanisms of manganese induced neurotoxicity and lessons for dopaminergic cell loss“ in the framework of the FENS Forum, hold in Barcelona. The main objective of the study leaded by […]
José Ramon Naranjo: “Inhibiting DREAM could improve the Huntington disease”
“The inhibition of DREAM could improve Huntington disease”, said Dr. José Ramón Naranjo from the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), in his seminar “DREAM: interactions, targets and functions” at the Hospital Duran i Reynals last July 6th. DREAM is a transcriptional repressor in the nucleus and regulates the traffic […]
Laboratory technician students from Portugal visited IDIBELL
Five students for laboratory technician from Portugal visited today IDIBELL facilities. On arrival, the laboratory technician from the Neurometabolic diseases research group Juan Jose Martínez has talk about the work of laboratory technicians in a research centre as the IDIBELL. Then, the students have visited the animal facilities, where technician Rosa Bonavia explained the functioning […]
More shadows than lights in the smoke-free laws
On July 5, one hundred participants and twenty speakers from different countries met at this International Symposium, jointly organized by the ICO and the WHO. This first Symposium was devoted to analyzing the experience of Spain and other countries that have implemented partial smoke-free laws or that have suffered regressive processes by the establishment of […]
Jason Mundin: “It was a simple idea, but the most complicated was to make it work”
Jason Mundin, MBA, Director of Collaborations at Population Genetics, gave a Knowledge and Technology Transfer seminar, presenting his company, last 25th July in IDIBELL. Population Genetics, created in 2005 by Dr Sydney Brenner, Nobel Laureate in Medicine, has developed novel sequencing approaches to identify variants in candidate genomic regions in populations ranging in size from […]
A bone scan tracks the process of osseointegration in dental implants
The study developed by researchers of the research group of the Odontological and Maxillofacial Pathology and Therapeutics at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) and the University of Barcelona (UB) concludes that bone scintigraphy may be a suitable technique for monitoring the procedure in bone integration implants. The paper has been published in the June […]