Researchers of the IDIBELL and the Hospital Vall d'Hebron have studied a family affected by both type 1 neurofibromatosis and early breast cancer and they have detected mutations in NF1 and BRCA1 genes responsible for the two diseases, respectively.
April 24 marks the World Day of laboratory animals. Everybody thinks about mice but IDIBELL also works with other animal models such as worms, pigs or frogs and others.
The researcher Artur Llobet of the cellular and molecular neurobiology group is working with a species of frog, Xenopus tropicalis, able to regenerate brain functions.
Seven years after the entry into force of the first smoking law, we are beginning to see the benefits in public health. Benefits, according Esteve Fernandez, head of the tobacco control unit of ICO will increase when we analyze the impact of the second law that took effect in 2011, much more restrictive.