Del 29 de Junio al 1 de Julio se desarrollará la primera acción de la European Performing Science Night 2021 en la sede de la Fundación Épica La Fura dels Baus. Se trata de un taller en el que participarán un total de 27 investigadores pertenecientes a al Instituto...
The LSL60101 compound, a specific ligand of the I2-IR receptors in the brain, could shed light on the development of future strategies against Alzheimer’s disease. This is stated in the recent studies by the Research Group on Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology of Neurodegenerative Diseases of...
Dr. Raúl Estévez, group leader of the Institut of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona and IDIBELL, has led an investigation that has identified the GlialCAM protein interactome, whose gene causes the rare disease Megalencephalic Leukoencephalopathy with subcortical Cysts (MLC). MLC is a rare type...
A study led by researchers of the Institute of Neurosciences of the UB (UBNeuro) has determined the levels of the RTp801 protein increase in the hippocampal formation in post-mortem samples of patients with Alzheimer’s and in animal models of the disease. The study, published in the journal Cell...
La Marató de TV3 and Catalunya Ràdio in 2020, dedicated to COVID-19, will give 12.5 million euros to fund 36 excellence biomedical research projects to improve the quality and life expectancy of people affected by SARS-CoV-2. The 2020 edition received 229 projects, assessed by ninety-five scientists...
On June 22, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., the University of Barcelona is holding the session “The exploration (and exploitation) of space”. The objective of this meeting is to tackle the theme of space from a cross-sectional perspective using the research carried out by several...
Stereotypes are knowledge structures integrated in our world representation, which have an influence on our decisions and which are hard to change. A team from the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona (UB) and the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), in collaboration with...
A study carried out by UB, IDIBELL, ICO and Bellvitge University Hospital shows that exercise does not only prevent the loss of neuronal tissue caused by chemotherapy and radiotherapy, but the patients who follow sports guidelines also increase their volume of grey matter in brain regions involved in memory and...
The lockdown policies that resulted from the COVID-19 epidemic involved an important decrease in urban crimes, except for homicides, according to a paper published in the journalNature Human Behaviour, which counts on the participation of the lecturer Noemí Pereda, director of the Research Group on...
With the presentation of her thesis on adult neurogenesis, Alba Ortega, doctoral student at the Faculty of Biology and the Institute of Neurosciences of the UB, will represent the University of Barcelona in the finals of the “4-minute Thesis” contest, organized by the Catalan Foundation for Research...