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    Protection against blood vessel occlusion in animals with sickle cell anemia after treatment with circadian clock inhibitors. Vessel walls are shown as white lines, neutrophils in yellow, and red blood cells trapped by neutrophils in red.
    Research
    12 Dec 2025
    JEM: Neutrophils are less aggressive at night, explaining why nighttime heart attacks cause less damage than daytime events

    A CNIC study reveals that neutrophils—a type of immune cell—are less aggressive at night, explaining why nighttime heart attacks are less severe than those occurring during the day
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    Research
    16 Jul 2025
    Nature: A gut microbiota metabolite linked to atherosclerosis could revolutionise diagnosis and treatment

    A new study led by the CNIC has identified imidazole propionate (ImP), a metabolite produced by gut bacteria, as a driver of atherosclerosis— as a driver of atherosclerosis, the disease behind most heart attacks and strokes
    David Sancho
    About the CNIC
    31 Oct 2023
    David Sancho wins the 28th Carmen and Severo Ochoa Award for Research in Molecular Biology

    Dr Sancho heads the CNIC Immunobiology Laboratory, whose work focuses on research into the function of dendritic cells and macrophages, as key immune cells that modulate immunity and inflammation, and the use of these cells in immunotherapy in a wide range of diseases