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Spanish and British scientists discover what prevents the immune system from working normally
Scientists have long wondered what causes immune disorders in only one of two identical twins since their genes are the same. Now, a new study by the Josep Carreras Leukemia Research Institute (Barcelona), the Wellcome Sanger Institute (United Kingdom), and other...
European Research Council selects for funding 46 Spanish research projects
The European Research Council (ERC) is the first pan-European funding body for frontier research. The ERC's mission is to encourage the highest quality research in Europe through competitive funding and to support investigator-driven frontier research across all...
Researchers from the Institute of Corpuscular Physics (CSIC-University of Valencia) measure for the first time the mass of one of the basic constituents of matter with the help of the Higgs boson
The standard model of particle physics, the theory that best describes the visible matter in the universe, predicts that many of the properties of particles have different values depending on the energy at which they are observed. This also occurs with the mass of...
Spanish and German researchers devise a new strategy to introduce substances into the cell
An international team including researchers from the University of Santiago de Compostela has described a mechanism to bring bioactive agents into the cell using boron compounds that are capable of disordering water molecules and dehydrating the load they carry. In...
Call open for the SRUK/CERU Emerging Talent Award 2022
The objective of the SRUK/CERU Emerging Award is to recognize and support a promising young Spanish researcher who has developed their career in Natural sciences and/or Engineering in the UK for at least three years, as well as to facilitate the dissemination of the...
Spanish researchers identify the gene responsible for the formation of underground tubercles.
Researchers at the National Center for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC) in Madrid have identified a new function of the BRANCHED1b (BRC1b) gene, which has turned out to be essential for the formation of underground tubers. The study is on this week's cover of the journal ...