Tarragona, Thursday September 5. The consumption of nuts to prevent diseases is attracting increasing interest in recent years. A study with more than a million participants from all over the world and led by the IISPV-URV and the University of Copenhagen will make it possible …

The ADGUT collaborative project seeks to understand the relationship between the microbiota-gut-brain axis and the progression of cognitive alterations associated with Alzheimer’s disease. This project aims to develop personalised preclinical models to prevent the progression of the disease and improve its assessment. Alzheimer’s is an …

Researchers at the Institute for Biomedical Research of Girona (IDIBGI) and the Eurecat technology centre have also found that histidine levels are linked to a bacterial species in the gut microbiota. This research suggests that the interaction between microbiota, histidine and fatty liver may open …

A study by the Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI) has found that there is a relationship between fat tissue and brain cognitive function. The article, published in the scientific journal Science Advances, identifies a group of genes that, depending on how they are expressed in adipose …

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system of patients attacks the pancreatic cells responsible for insulin production. A study from the University of Lleida (UdL) the Biomedical Research Institute of Lleida (IRBLleida) and the Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), recently …

It is an international project, from the hand of the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (IISGlobal) and with funding from the California Walnuts Commission (institution of world reference in this field) The Clinical and Epidemiological Neuroscience Research Group (NeuroEpia) of the Pere Virgili Health Research …

Concludes a world-leading study in this field led by the IISPV and with the collaboration of ISGlobal and the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) Eating walnuts on a regular basis could benefit the cognitive development of adolescents and contribute to their psychological maturation.

The Retina Read Risk consortium has been working for a year on the design of a screening solution for diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease due to diabetes. Building on its progress, the consortium has finalized its prototype and launched a full-scale test in Spain in …

Berlin, 30 December 2022. What teens have to say about their health The newly released video wraps up two years of work and co-creation with groups of teenagers in four European countries for the project SEEDS, dedicated to healthy lifestyles.    Two frames of the …

The proposal ‘Impact of Sleep-disordered Breathing Management inSystemic Hypertension Control: METASLEEP project’ by Ferran Barbé Illa has been funded with more than 2 million euros The Ministry of Science and Innovation has awarded funding to two research projects on personalised precision medicine presented by the …

Thanks to the combined efforts of the Pere Virgili Health Research Institute (IISPV) and the University of Cambridge, it will be possible to tackle metabolic and inflammatory diseases (such as obesity and diabetes) from a global perspective. Researchers from both institutions will work together to …

The study will analyze the result of the interaction of aspects such as diet, environment or genetics, and its effects on children through metabolites, markers in blood and urine. Data from more than 3,000 children of different ages and countries (in Spain these are patients …