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The effects of the lack of potassium in the Cell
The effects of the lack of potassium, an essential cation in most living organisms, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast cells has been studied by a group of researchers at UAB. The lack of this element can affect many aspects of cell physiology, some of which are still unknown....
UAB succeeds in new embryo genetic testing techniques
Researchers from the Unit of Cell Biology and Medical Genetics have developed methods of molecular genetic analysis in single cells (mutations and study of all chromosomes 1 to 22, X and Y) that have already been applied to Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) for...
Twins born with no hereditary pathology
For the first time ever, the birth of a boy and a girl without the monogenic hereditary non polyposis colon-rectal cancer (HNPCC) disease or Lynch Syndrome, present in the father has been achieved. This was been possible after a successful application of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis...
Birth of the daughter of a carrier of double chomosomal translocations
In collaboration with a group from the Eugin clinic, formed by Dr. A. Obradors, Dr. R. Vidal, Dra. V. Vernaeve and Dr. O. Coll and with Dr. J. Obradors from the Consultori Obstètric i Ginecològic Josep Obradors, a group of researchers from the...