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April 20, 2022 In News By admin

Creatio participates in the guidelines to bring research closer to the clinic for Huntington patients

Creatio’s staff are involved in the white paper that sets the challenges to translate the substantial advances made in cell therapy to patient benefit. The report has been published this month at the prestigious journal Brain. Dr. Josep M. Canals, Dr. Unai Perpiña and Dr. Cristina Salado participated, as Creatio representatives, with the definition of the 7 challenges to overcome for the clinical translation of cell therapy in Huntington’s disease. The report,...

April 5, 2022 In Divulgació, News By admin

Doctoral student Alba Ortega to represent the UB in the Coimbra Group ‘3-Minute Thesis’ contest

Alba Ortega, doctoral Student of the program on Biomedicine, will represent the University of Barcelona in the Coimbra Group contest “3-Minute Thesis”. The student was chosen out of several researchers in an event on Monday, March 28, where Elisabeth Martinez, from the program on Engineering...

April 4, 2022 In News, Research By admin

Damaged neural circuits can be regenerated by transplanted stem cells

In an article published in the journal Neural Regeneration Research, Daniel Tornero, a researcher at the Institute of Neuroscience of the Universitat de Barcelona, explained the current state of stem cell therapy for brain damage repair. Specifically, he has analysed the mechanism by which transplanted stem cells are able to...

March 24, 2022 In News By admin

The UB receives three European grants

One of them, Alex Taylor will carry his research at UBneuro The researchers of the University of Barcelona Karim Lekadir, Alex Taylor and Isabel Almudí will carry out their research thanks to three consolidator grants given by the European Research Council (ERC). Today, the institution...

March 18, 2022 In Divulgació, News By admin

New NeuroArt Gala 2022

This year 17 schools from around Catalonia participated in this edition with 32 differents artworks. The past 15th March, we organized the 2022 NeuroArt Gala at the CCCB. It was a very expected event as after two years we could hold a face-to-face Gala where the students could...

March 17, 2022 In News By admin

Lack of cellular prion protein might cause symptoms of epilepsy and learning deficits

The cellular prion protein (PrPC), a protein in the surface of the neuronal cells, is imbalanced in human patients with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease. However, the knowledge on the participation of PrPC in these pathologies contrasts with many reported data on...

March 16, 2022 In News, Research By admin

A 4D bioprinter for the UB

The UB becomes a reference in the creation of tissues and organs Aiming to create artificial organs and tissues for clinical application, the Production and Validation Center for Advanced Therapies of the University of Barcelona (Creatio), will purchase and launch one of the first 4D...

February 17, 2022 In News, Research By admin

First study to analyse brain changes associated with juvenile fibromyalgia

Juvenile fibromyalgia is a syndrome characterized by a chronic pain affecting the whole body. It also causes fatigue as well as sleep and mood disorders. It affects children and adolescents —mainly girls— worldwide and it appears during a critical period of the brain development. Analysing...

February 3, 2022 In Divulgació, News By admin

International Day of Women and Girls in Science activities

February 11th is the date to recognise the critical role women and girls play in science and technology and to promote scientific vocations to young people. The Institute of Neurosciences take part on this important day and some of its women researchers will participate in the...

January 25, 2022 In News, Research By admin

Study detects how a genetic variant modifies the brain stimulation impact on memory

The gene of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is associated with several processes related to memory and brain plasticity. Now, a paper reveals that it is easier to alter the cognitive activity through transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in people with the genetic variant Val/Val for the BDNF gene. Conclusions...