After analyzing more than 41,000 people (21,000 individuals with schizophrenia and 20,000 without it), the largest genomic study of schizophrenia to date has managed to isolate rare genetic variations that increase the risk of this disease. This study, recently published in Nature Genetics, has been conducted and led by the University of San Diego (USA), […]
The Health Research and Development Strategy, Institute of Health Carlos III, include a group of annual programmes to foster biomedical research which are essential to research in health in our country. These programmes include grants to develop research projects, other types of contracts and grants to participate in the Redes, consortiums and platforms of the […]
The following 21st of December will take place the third session of the Programme Progress Reports given by Paula Iruzubieta Coz, specialist in Digestive System at Marques de Valdecilla University Hospital. The session will be about “The liver-specific deletion of the respiratory chain inhibitor MCJ attenuates NAFLD progression by enhancing hepatic beta-oxidation” and is summarized […]
The third edition of the workshops “¡VIVE LA CIENCIA!” took place during the month of November. These workshops were about the initiation in biomedical research in which researchers of IDIVAL have participated. The workshops were designed to promote the scientific vocations of local students in the biosanitary field. These workshops consisted of theorical-practice classes where IDIVAL’s researchers showed […]
