The lack of some genes in the BEC/TCEAL cluster could be related to some alterations associated with the autism spectrum disorder, according to a preclinical study published in the journal Genome Biology, and led by Professor Jordi Garcia Fernàndez, from the Faculty of Biology and the Institute of......
Huntington’s disease is known for a mutation in the Huntingtin gen. Patients show involuntary movements, cognitive deficits and specific psychiatric disorders of the disease, which result from the degeneration and death of medium spiny striatal neurons. A study led by researchers of the Institute of......
A team of researchers from the Institute of Neurosciences (UBNeuro) and Institute of Complex Systems (UBICS) has demonstrated that neurons can be generated from skin cells of a human donor using a cellular reprograming technology. According to the obtained results, these neurons are able to......
