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VacunAcció once again challenges students to get vaccinated against misinformation
This course, the educational project has been implemented in a group of Baccalaureate from the Escola Pia of Igualada
Consumption of processed foods increases the risk of cancer
This is the largest and most complete study carried out on the subject, it has included more than 450,000 people from 9 European countries and has analyzed the relationship of diet with 25 different types of cancer. The work concludes that replacing 10% of the intake of processed products with others that are not reduces the risk of suffering any type of cancer.
IDIBELL’s technology, licensed to LoopDx, starts a crowdequity campaign
Between 2018 and 2019, the IDIBELL and Bellvitge University Hospital researcher Joan Sabater, in collaboration with the start-up LoopDx, developed SeptiLoop, a rapid sepsis diagnostic kit. The result of this project was patented and licensed to the company itself.
A grant from the “la Caixa” Foundation allows Albert Antolín to set up his research at IDIBELL
Yesterday the award ceremony of the “la Caixa” Foundation scholarships was held. Dr. Albert Antolín, principal investigator of IDIBELL and ICO, received a Junior Leader grant to develop new strategies based on Big Data and artificial intelligence for the design of drugs against cancer that prevent drug resistance.
IDIBELL joins Brain Week with two scientific dissemination proposals
The play Abans que arribi l’alemany, about Alzheimer’s, and a flash talks session about Parkinson’s, bring neurodegenerative diseases closer to the public.
Presentation of the new cell sorter of the flow cytometry platform
The Flow Cytometry Platform of the IDIBELL Scientific-Technical Services incorporated new high-performance equipment. It is the Beckman Coulter CytoFLEX SRT Benchtop Cell Separator. The arrival of this state-of-the-art equipment covers the need to renew the cell separation service and makes new and current technological improvements available to researchers. CytoFLEX SRT can meet the requirements for […]
Study describes the structural and functional effects of several mutations on the androgen receptor
The androgen receptor is the main target in the fight against prostate cancer. The study, published in the journal Science Advances, states that the analyzed mutations affect several functional regions of the union domain of the androgen receptor to testosterone.
The DACMA Association donates 10,000 euros for breast cancer research
Yesterday, this association from Sant Joan Despí organized an event in which Dr. Sonia Pernas from IDIBELL and the ICO presented the current situation of breast cancer research.
Smoking increases the risk of developing severe COVID by 30 to 50%
This is the main conclusion of a study published in the scientific journal ‘European Respiratory Review’ in which the head of the IDIBELL Tobacco Control research group and head of the Tobacco Control Unit of the Catalan Institute of Oncology, Esteve Fernández, has participated. The article analyzes the results in this field in the different reports presented to date.