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Parkinson’s disease is one of the most common diseases affecting the motor and the nervous system. It has no treatment yet, and this pathology causes a deterioration of the motor skills due to dopaminergic neuronal death, the neurons that synthetize dopamine, a brain neurotransmitter that controls the volunteer movements. Now, a study on Parkinson’s published

A study led by the University of Barcelona and the Biomedical Research Networking Center in Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Disorders (CIBERDEM) reveals how a new mechanism could improve the efficiency of currently available treatments for diabetes. The study, carried out on mice and cell cultures, may open up new ways of approaching metabolic diseases that are a global

The human brain is an organ that takes nearly from 20 to 25% of the energy the body needs. This high energy demand for neuronal functions depends on the transport and precise distribution of mitochondria — the energy-generating cell organelles — in each neuron. Now, a study published in the journal Science Signaling has identified,

Artificial intelligence (AI) is an avant-garde discipline that is significantly revolutionizing research in several knowledge fields. AI is increasingly integrated in many daily life aspects, and it is regarded as a transforming technology that has become an essential pillar of the activity of the research institutes at the University of Barcelona.  The aim of the

Women with depressive symptoms during pregnancy may experience an alteration in the circadian rhythm of cortisol — a hormone that is necessary for fetal development — which could affect the course of pregnancy. Cortisol increases naturally in pregnant women during pregnancy, but excessive cortisol levels in early pregnancy can negatively impact fetal development, especially if

According to a study conducted on animal models and published in the journal Metabolism, aerobic exercise could help fight the non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, the most common liver disease worldwide: it affects nearly 24% of the global population and it usually causes a certain stigma among the affected people. The study opens ways for identifying

In commemoration of 11F, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, IBUB collaborates with the promotion of science among girls in upper secondary school and above, inviting groups of girls to learn about the work of science in laboratories from women researchers with a passion for science. The aim is for them to

The Institute of Biomedicine of the University of Barcelona already has a registration code in the ROR (Research Organization Registry) database, a global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for research organizations.

CSIC publishes the ranking of researchers in Spain and Spaniards working aborad, according to their personal public profiles on Google Scholar among 123.400 profiles ranked first by h-index in decreasing order and then by the total number of citations. The data for this edition data was collected during the third week of November 2023. Special

A new study, led by the Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutic Chemistry of the University of Barcelona, the Institute of Biomedicine of the University of Barcelona (IBUB) and CIBERDEM, describes the effects of a compound PROTAC (Proteolysis-targeting Chimera) directed against soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH). This compound, by stimulating the degradation of sEH, causes the