Researchers at Barcelona’s Evolutionary Biology Institute have sequenced the DNA of fossils from the archaeological site of El Sidrón in northern Spain to study the family relationships of Neanderthals. Researchers have discovered that Neanderthal females abandoned the group when they were old enough to reproduce and that there were exchanges of partners to avoid inbreeding

STAFF | DECEMBER 21ST, 2010

A team led by Carles Lalueza-Fox, a researcher at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, studied a dried blood sample stored in a gourd that supposedly was kept as a souvenir from the execution of the French King Louis XVI by guillotine in 1793.

STAFF | OCTOBER 25TH, 2010

In a subgroup of tumors that appear in the colon, stomach and uterus cancer cells hijack a group of anti-tumor molecules within the nucleus, preventing them from maturing and performing their function in the cell, according to an international team led by Manel Esteller, researcher of the Bellvitge Institute of Biomedical Research in Barcelona.

STAFF | OCTOBER 20TH, 2010

Scientists at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet have developed a DNA-based vaccine that reduces the flow of blood to a tumor, thereby slowing its growth.

A. R. | 25 MAY 2010