Research Archives - Page 36 of 47 - El·lipse

The way in which chromosomes occupy a 3-D space is crucial for regulating genome function and processes essential for life, such as DNA replication, transcription and DNA-damage repair.

11.06.2020

New tool to film dynamic genome changes

The human γTuRC structure seen by cryo-electron microscopy. Image from the Surrey lab.

04.06.2020

Understanding the birth and rise of microtubules

Obesity is a complex disease that is becoming increasingly prevalent in society and the accompanying conditions have a very negative impact on the quality of life and life expectancy of those affected. | Picture by Colin Behrens from Pixabay.

03.06.2020

Chromosomal variants may explain the link between obesity and diseases such as asthma or diabetes

Picture by Federico Giampieri from Unsplash.

29.05.2020

Heat now more lethal than cold for people with respiratory diseases in Spain

Understanding how environmental information is converted into molecular information in sperm RNAs, and then transmit across generations, is the next exciting and unanswered question for this CRG team.

28.05.2020

New therapeutic targets for infertility and cancer revealed

Txema's drawing.

27.05.2020

Chimps and gorillas’ genomes could help better understand human tumours

25.05.2020

Formation of epithelial-like structures in single-celled organisms

The last "IMIM Seminars At Home" presented two of the Covid19 projects taking place at the IMIM. One focuses on drug development, the other relies on the immune response.

22.05.2020

Drugs and antibodies: the strategies of two IMIM groups to block SARS-CoV-2

Ivermectin was recently shown to inhibit the replication of SARS-CoV-2 in vitro at very high doses, but this effect has not yet been studied in vivo. The new study will investigate this question in a randomised trial. | Picture by ISGlobal.

21.05.2020

New study to assess the efficacy of ivermectin against COVID-19

Researchers used light exposure to impress a complex pattern, spread across an area slightly smaller than the thickness of a human hair, onto a biofilm community, made up of hundreds of individual bacteria. | Picture by the UPF and UCSD.

19.05.2020

DCEXS-UPF researchers show bacteria can store information in a similar way to neurons

Male lion at the Copenhagen Zoo in April 2014. | Picture by Ross Barnett, researcher at the GLOBE Institute and co-author of the study.

18.05.2020

Researchers analyze the evolutionary history of the lion, key to its conservation in the future

Untrained staff performing the test will get an unequivocal result from the instrument. | Picture by the UPF.

15.05.2020

InstaCOVID19: UPF develops rapid diagnostic tests for SARS-CoV-2