The IDIBELL Neurometabolic Diseases group, with international collaboration, has identified a model of chromosome X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD) in C. elegans. X-ALD is a rare disorder of the nervous system with no ...
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Late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD), the one that appears after age 65, is the most common form of this neurodegenerative disease and accounts for more than 90% of cases. The first brain changes associated with the disease ...
Feb 12, 2020
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Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease that can damage any part of the body. When it causes inflammation in the kidneys (called lupus nephritis), they cannot properly remove waste from the blood or control body fluids. Without ...
Feb 3, 2020
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Vascular dementia is caused by a defect on blood flow arrival to the brain, which consequently generates neuronal damage. Until now, its diagnosis has been quite complicated because only neuroimaging methods, such as a scanner, ...
Jan 30, 2020
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Rhabdomyosarcoma is the most common childhood cancer in the soft tissues, and it mainly originates in the muscles. It represents almost 5% of pediatric tumors, and the survival rate is between 60% and 70%. The work published ...
Jan 29, 2020
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Tauopathies are a group of neurodegenerative diseases characterized by the accumulation of phospho-tau—in other words tau associated to phosphate groups. Globular Glial Tauopathy, as well as Alzheimer's, are members of ...
Jan 27, 2020
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Often, patients from the same family and carriers of the same genetic mutation, develop a disease differently. This disparity may be due to the existence of mutations in other secondary genes, which influence the onset and ...
Jan 21, 2020
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Colorectal cancer can develop for months without producing any symptoms and, as soon as the first ones appear, sometimes the disease is already in an advanced stage. Screening programs allow to detect the disease when it ...
Dec 2, 2019
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Researchers at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) have just described for the first time the crucial involvement of a cell membrane protein in the development and progression of liver cancer, according ...
Oct 29, 2019
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A one-millimeter worm, the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, is an animal model widely used in biomedical research by hundreds of laboratories around the world. Surprisingly, it has approximately the same number of genes that ...
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