Neurobiology Archives - El·lipse

20.12.2019

ERC grants and genomics hints into bird extinctions

Neurodegenerative diseases often run with protein aggregation; but is that aggregation the cause of the disease? Researchers at the CRG have used deep mutagenesis to get closer to the answer. Photo by pan xiaozhen on Unsplash.

22.10.2019

New insights into protein aggregation and neurodegenerative diseases

The brain consists of very complicated cells called neurons and they build up very complex networks (Picture by Juniorbolivar at Wikipedia).

19.09.2019

Biochemistry: from destroying to creating

Artem Komissarov studies the molecular transport within neurons. Illustration by David S. Goodsell, the Scripps Research Institute.

12.06.2019

Rin4′: more than a science talk competition

04.03.2019

The endocannabinoid system in Down syndrome

Astrocytes and radial glia by Jason Snyder, CC BY 2.0

17.05.2018

The brain’s protective wall: the blood-brain barrier

07.09.2017

Effects of cannabis at the hippocampus

15.04.2016

“My greatest satisfaction is knowing the knowledge we generate improves people’s lives”

C.elegans is a 1mm worm that shares 35% of genes with humans and is widely used in research as a model system. Photo by Adam Klosin, CRG.

14.09.2014

An elegant worm

48h old zebrafish embryo displaying fluorescent sensory in neurons.

05.03.2014

Zebrafish, a transparent window to our biology

The fruit fly was chosen to be the first multicellular organism to have its genome fully sequenced back in 2000 (Image by the Oregon State University at Flickr).

08.02.2011

Of flies and men

The brain: the right hemisphere records visual and spatial memories, such as drawings, while the left hemisphere registers verbal memory, for example wors or numbers. Image from Pixabay.

16.03.2010

Studying memory