Researchers from the Unit of Cell Biology and Medical Genetics have developed methods of molecular genetic analysis in single cells (mutations and study of all chromosomes 1 to 22, X and Y) that have already been applied to Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) for...
UAB researchers have conducted a study in which controlling the growth of more than two hundred placentas were able to observe changes in the blood vessels of these due to drougs abuse, such as tobacco or alcohol by the mother....
Maria Basagaña Torrentó doctoral thesis, read at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, has studied and characterized proteins that produce two kinds of allergies in our area: on one hand, human seminal plasma allergy, or HSPA, a rare allergy with unknown agents that caused it. On the other, dog...
Researchers at the Institute of Neurosciences at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (INc-UAB) identified the fundamental role played by the Nurr1 gene in neuron survival associated with synaptic activity. The discovery, published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry,...
The Ravetllat-Pla Institute, located in the Guinardó district of Barcelona, was founded by the veterinary doctor Joaquim Ravetllat and doctor Ramon Armengol in 1919. There, they conceived a theory for the treatment of tuberculosis that was defined as heterodox...
