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Characterizing new allergic agents
Maria Basagaña Torrentó doctoral thesis, read at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, has studied and characterized proteins that produce two kinds of allergies in our area: on one hand, human seminal plasma allergy, or HSPA, a rare allergy with unknown agents that caused it. On the other, dog...
Identified a Gene with a Key Role in Neuronal Survival
Researchers at the Institute of Neurosciences at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (INc-UAB) identified the fundamental role played by the Nurr1 gene in neuron survival associated with synaptic activity. The discovery, published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry,...
Science, Industry and ideology: the Ravetllat-Pla Institut
The Ravetllat-Pla Institute, located in the Guinardó district of Barcelona, was founded by the veterinary doctor Joaquim Ravetllat and doctor Ramon Armengol in 1919. There, they conceived a theory for the treatment of tuberculosis that was defined as heterodox...
