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The Department of Psychiatry and Forensic Medicine, analyzed
Currently exists systematic studies on scientific production in biomedicine, but these studies are inadequate from the perspective of research group and university departments. UAB researchers have raised the following analysis in order to analyze the...
UAB succeeds in new embryo genetic testing techniques
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...
Maternal consumption of drugs of abuse can cause adverse changes in the placenta
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....
Characterizing new allergic agents
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...
Identified a Gene with a Key Role in Neuronal Survival
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,...
