Archive for category: Biomedicine

The algorithms of Google and Facebook are applied in cancer research

The algorithms of Google and Facebook are applied in cancer research

0 / May 20, 2012 11:13 am

The strategies of search engines and social networks have served as a model to identify markers of pancreatic cancer. Thanks to them, a team of German scientists has analyzed 20,000 proteins and found that seven of them are important in

Confirm the role of the sun on skin cancer

Confirm the role of the sun on skin cancer

0 / May 16, 2012 8:04 am

The genetic study of melanoma has confirmed that exposure to ultraviolet rays cause mutations that trigger this disease. According to the authors these results will help the development of new therapies. An international team of researchers with the participation of

Identified the molecule responsible for the spread of the AIDS virus HIV

Identified the molecule responsible for the spread of the AIDS virus HIV

0 / May 14, 2012 9:05 am

current antiretroviral therapies improve the quality of life but not cure, given that patients should continue taking medication for life. The cure is not because the virus continues to replicate elsewhere in the body. Researchers have discovered IrsiCaixa HIV molecule

Identify new suppressor gene in T lymphoblastic lymphomas

Identify new suppressor gene in T lymphoblastic lymphomas

0 / May 14, 2012 7:43 am

A study led from the Center for Molecular Biology Severo Ochoa (CBMSO) and the CIBER of Rare Diseases CIBERER, has identified a new tumor suppressor gene that seems key to the development of T-lymphoblastic lymphomas, which could become an important

Role of the antibodies in viral infections

Role of the antibodies in viral infections

0 / March 3, 2012 7:21 am

The study could lead to the identification of new means of defense against potentially lethal viruses, such as rabies virus. A new study by Matteo Iannacone, Scientific Institute San Raffaele Hospital inMilanand Ulrich von Andrian,Harvard Medical School, funded by the

The Change RNA to defeat muscular dystrophy

The Change RNA to defeat muscular dystrophy

0 / March 1, 2012 8:24 am

WERE ABLE TO IMPROVE THE DEFECTS OF THE PROTEIN RNA WHICH HAS A REPETITION OF THE PEOPLE WITH MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY… A designed series of molecules of RNA that act against a mutation that causes the most common form of muscular

Neurons from embryonic stem cells against Parkinson’s disease

Neurons from embryonic stem cells against Parkinson’s disease

0 / November 13, 2011 3:42 pm

The work has produced neurons transplanted into animals with Parkinson’s have been integrated and produced dopamine, whose deficiency is the basis of these neurodegenerative diseases. A study published online by the journal Nature breaks new ground in research on neurodegenerative