Art and science meet in the book Sketching científic IDIBAPS
The art of urban natural drawing, or sketching, is a social and artistic phenomenon gaining adherents worldwide at great speed. The IDIBAPS has promoted...
News from November 2014
Hospital Clínic and the BBVA Foundation announce the launch of a health portal providing reliable information in Spanish, which will also be brought within the care process
Hospital Clínic de Barcelona will put its expertise at citizens’ fingertips through a new health portal in collaboration with the BBVA Foundation. This...
The IDIBAPS organized a course to promote translational research in Diabetes
The IDIBAPS hosted last week the course "Introduction to Research in Diabetes Mellitus", organized by the Spanish Diabetes Society (EDS) and sponsored...
A monoclonal antibody shows greater efficacy than conventional chemotherapy in patients with advanced melanoma
The prestigious New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) publishes an article in its latest issue that demonstrates the efficacy of a monoclonal antibody...
Researchers identify a key protein in pancreatic cancer development
Researchers from the IDIBAPS and the University of Barcelona (UB) have described an interaction between the protein HNRNPA2B1 and pancreatic cancer development...
A study shows that elite controllers have a similar genetic profile to that of HIV-uninfected people
The elite controllers (EC) are those people in whom AIDS does not progress despite being infected with HIV. A study led by the IDIBAPS and published in...
An antiviral combination reaches 97% of effectiveness in liver transplant patients with hepatitis C
In a study published in New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), a combination of oral antiviral obtained a 97% curation rate for hepatitis C in a group...
The Hospital Clínic incorporates the first robot which will perform surgical procedures by a single orifice
The Hospital Clinic of Barcelona is from today on the first hospital in Spain, and one of the firsts in Europe in using the new surgical robot da Vinci...
IDIBAPS researchers receive 11 grants from the TV3 Telethon about neurodegenerative diseases
The TV3 Telethon Foundation celebrated yesterday evening a ceremony to present the projects selected to be funded by the 2013 edition dedicated to neurodegenerative...