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El calendario solidario Helios recauda fondos para la investigación del cáncer infantil en el IDIBELL
Coincidiendo con las fiestas navideñas y de fin de año, el Centro de Yoga Helios, de la ciudad de Castelldefels, ha creado un calendario para 2018 con una finalidad solidaria: recaudar fondos para la investigación biomédica del IDIBELL. En concreto, los beneficios de la venta del calendario contribuirán al avance de la investigación contra el […]
Se presentan los Bombones Carla: una iniciativa solidaria para promover la investigación del síndrome de Rett
El síndrome de Rett: una de las principales causas de retraso mental en niñas Manel Esteller y el equipo del IDIBELL: líderes en la investigación del síndrome de Rett Oriol Balaguer: la creatividad al servicio de la solidaridad
Scientists identify the segmentation and consolidation mechanism of long-term memories
“Boundary events” delimit and reactivate the memory of the previous sequence of events in order to store it in the long-term memory as discrete episodes Continuous experiences, discrete memories “Boundary events” trigger memory encoding Rapid reactivation of memories leads to long-term memory consolidation.
El III Premio Martí Vía para la investigación oncológica recae al Programa ProCURE
Un proyecto de investigación del investigador del Programa ProCURE, David Garcia Molleví, ha recibido la beca Martí Vía, dotada con 30.000 euros
International collaboration at the ”Amino acid transport defects” symposium
The symposium “Amino acid transport defects”, organized by the Rare Diseases CIBER and the Ramón Areces Foundation, took place on November 20th and 21st at its headquarters in Madrid. In addition to national researchers, including the group of Dr. Virgina Nunes of IDIBELL, who coorganized the symposium, seventeen of the leading specialists in this field […]
The isoforms of the HP1 protein differentially regulate the organization and structure of heterochromatin
Researchers from the Epigenetics and Cancer Biology Program of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), led by Dr. Àlex Vaquero, have elucidated the role of HP1 proteins in relation to chromatin structure and genome stability, distinguishing different functions based on the presence of different variants of this protein. The work, published in Cell Reports, was […]
Each year in Catalonia, roughly 1,000 women die of breast cancer and 275 of ovarian cancer
Global experts in women’s cancer present latest advances in prevention, early diagnosis and therapies at B·Debate
Best Ideas 2017” award to Manel Esteller
Last Monday, November 13th, the ‘Best Ideas 2017’ awards ceremony, organized annually by the Diario Médico newspaper, took place at the National Theater of Catalonia. In this year’s edition, Dr. Manel Esteller, Researcher of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), ICREA Research Professor and Professor of Genetics of the University of Barcelona received one of […]
Ramon Salazar receives funding for a research project on colon cancer
The Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC) and the Carlos III Health Institute (ISCII) have decided to financially contribute to the ‘Horizon 2020 TRASCAN’ program of the European Union to fund five Spanish projects TRASCAN Project