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  • Identified: a mutation participating in the clinical expression of migraine

    A recently published study has identified a mutation that relieves the seriousness of neurological symptoms with aura associated with migraine, one of the most common headaches that lead to the highest degree of incapacity, and affects up to 8% of men and up to 20% of women in industrialised countries.


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  • New keys discovered in the hindbrain of the vertebrates
    A study by researchers Ferran Aragon and Cristina Pujades, a PhD Student and lead researcher respectively in the Developmental Biology research group at CEXS-UPF, has identified the ERK/MAPK intracellular pathway as the only way used by FGF factors to organize spatial regionalization in the rhombencephalon. The study was published recently in BMC Developmental Biology. [+]
  • Seminar Announce: Antoni Ivorra
    Next Thursday February 18 at 12:00 , we will host the visit of Dr. Antoni Ivorra, from the Department of Communication and Technologies of the UPF. He will give the seminar: " An engineer's perspective on in vivo electroporation" and it will take place at the seminar's room 300.08 on the 3rd floor of the PRBB
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  • NeuroPhar participates in a project financed by the CENIT programme

    The Neuropharmacology Laboratory (Neurophar) of the Department of Experimental and Health Sciences (CEXS) of UPF, directed by professor Rafael Maldonado, is participating in the NEOGENIUS PHARMA project financed by the CDTI (Center for Technological and Industrial Development) in the 2009 call of the CENIT programme

    The project is led by the Catalan pharmaceutical companies Almirall, S.A; Laboratorios Dr. Esteve, S.A; Palau Pharma, S.A and the Basque biotechnology company Proteomika, S.L., which form the consortium NEOGENIUS PHARMA, AIE. The total budget is 21,548,378 euros and Neurophar’s of which share is 560,000 euros.

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  • New keys to the insects' metamorphosis control
    A study by Xavier Bellés and Eva Gómez, director and researcher at the Evolutionary Biology Institute (UPF-CSIC), respectively, which has been published in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) describes a new level of regulation in insects’ metamorphosis, involving MicroRNAs. [+]
  • Research seminar on temporary professional incapacity management
    The seminar "New evidence for the management of temporary professional incapacity due to a non-work related accident or illness", was held in the Communication-Campus Poblenou auditorium (Roc Boronat, 138. Barcelona) on 9th December from 9:30 to 14:00, and included the presentation of the results of several research studied on the factors behind the duration of the professional incapacity and a debate on improving the management of these episodes. [+]
  • Roderic Guigó talks about bioinformatics eight years after the decoding of the Human Genome
    As part of the “Science and Citizenship” series of conferences, organised by the Catalonia Public University Association (ACUP), Roderic Guigó, full professor of biology at the CEXS at UPF, and a researcher at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) research centre affiliated to the UPF, gave the lecture “Human Essence in a chip? From the genome to the computer” [+]
  • GRIB participates in the foundation of the Iberoamerican Society for Bioinformatics (SoIBio)

    SoIBio is a new International Scientific Society which purpose is to work in the field of computational biology and bioinformatics in South America. It was founded last October, 26th in Puerto Morelos (Mexico) with the participation of scientifics and researchers of most of South American countries, Spain and Portugal. Nuria B. Centeno, researcher of GRIB (IMIM/UPF) has participated in that meeting representing our Group and will take part of the Exchange and Collaboration Comission. 

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