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Searching for the CRISPR Swiss-army knife

13-Dec-2017 - Scientists at the University of Copenhagen, led by the Spanish Professor Guillermo Montoya, are investigating the molecular features of different molecular scissors of the CRISPR-Cas system to shed light on the so-called 'Swiss-army knives' of genome editing. Montoya's research group has ...

CRISPR CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing
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Strawberries against breast cancer?

21-Apr-2017 - A study by European and Latin American researchers has shown that strawberry extract can inhibit the spread of laboratory-grown breast cancer cells, even when they are inoculated in female mice to induce tumours. However, the scientists do point out that these results from animal testing can not ...

breast cancer cancer

Some commercial coffees contain high levels of mycotoxins

02-Nov-2015 - An analysis of one hundred coffees sold in Spain has confirmed the presence of mycotoxins -toxic metabolites produced by fungi. In addition, five of the samples that were tested were found to contain ochratoxin A, the only legislated mycotoxin, in amounts that exceeded maximum permitted levels. ...

aflatoxin mushrooms mycotoxins
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Sweet nanoparticles target stroke

16-Mar-2015 - Materials resulting from chemical bonding of glucosamine, a type of sugar, with fullerenes, kind of nanoparticles known as buckyballs, might help to reduce cell damage and inflammation occurring after stroke. A team from the Max Planck Institute in Germany has tested this on mice, opening the ...

fullerenes glucosamine nanoparticles
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Strawberries lower cholesterol

27-Feb-2014 - A team of volunteers ate half a kilo of strawberries a day for a month to see whether it altered their blood parameters in any way. At the end of this unusual treatment, their levels of bad cholesterol and triglycerides reduced significantly, according to the analyses conducted by Italian and ...

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The raccoon spreads dangerous diseases as it invades Europe

30-Aug-2012 - Furry, agile, intelligent and voracious: the raccoon is far from being a cuddly toy, which is what many people believe when they get one as a pet. It is more like an invader that escapes and is able to adapt and survive in new habitats. According to a study, its expansion across Spain and Europe ...

rabies West Nile Virus
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A non-invasive intracellular 'thermometer' with fluorescent proteins has been created

25-May-2012 - A team from the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) has developed a technique to measure internal cell temperatures without altering their metabolism. This finding could be useful when distinguishing healthy cells from cancerous ones, as well as learning more about cellular ...

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Keeping track to selenium metabolism

23-Mar-2012 - Spanish and Danish researchers have developed a method for the in vivo study of the unknown metabolism of selenium, an essential element for living beings. The technique can help clarify whether or not it possesses the anti-tumour properties that have been attributed to it and yet have not been ...

metabolism selenium

The first map of colon cancer in Spain is published

18-Jan-2010 - There are stark geographical contrasts in the incidence of colon cancer worldwide. The new study analyses the causes of these disparities, starting with Spanish trends between 1951 and 2006 in terms of certain changes in consumption (tobacco, alcohol, red and processed meat, fish, vegetables...) ...

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Flax and yellow flowers can produce bioethanol

25-Nov-2009 - Surplus biomass from the production of flax shives, and generated from Brassica carinata, a yellow-flowered plant related to those which engulf fields in spring, can be used to produce bioethanol. This has been suggested by two studies carried out by Spanish and Dutch researchers and published in ...

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