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    Dr. Pablo García-Pavía,
    About the CNIC
    4 Sep 2026
    Nature Medicine: Study establishes the role of new treatments for transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy

    The research demonstrates the benefit of a new gene silencer for treating the disease
    Images show macrophages (green) in close association with fibroblasts (magenta).
    Research
    4 Sep 2026
    Science Immunology: Busy Tissues Need Bigger Cleanup Crews to Work at Their Best

    The body's heart muscle (for pumping blood), skeletal muscle (for movement and posture), and brown fat (for heat production), each require a lot of energy and make a lot of waste. And that waste needs to be managed.
    About the CNIC
    9 Jul 2026
    Nature Communications: A naturally occurring molecule opens a new avenue to preventing life-threatening arrhythmias
    Diana Velázquez, Natalia Vicente, Jon Sicilia, María Rosaria Pricolo, Laura Sen, Jorge Alegre y Agata Bak.
    Research
    7 Jul 2026
    Nature Cardiovascular Research: Researchers uncover a new mechanism underlying the most common inherited heart disease and confirm the effectiveness of a next-generation therapy

    Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is the most common inherited heart disease and the leading cause of sudden cardiac death in young people and athletes
    Left: Hesham Sadek MD, PhD. Right: Ivan Menendez-Montes, PhD
    Research
    10 Jun 2026
    Nature: Cells Have a Secret Power Line: Scientists Discover How the Nucleus Gets Its Own Private Energy Supply
    Optimal dendritic-cell-based antitumor immunotherapy with cDC1 cells requires active mitochondria. Whereas vaccination with normal cDC1 cells efficiently reduces metastasis in B16-OVA tumors, the antitumor efficacy of these cells is diminished when their mitochondria are damaged.
    Research
    22 May 2026
    Science Immunology: Mitochondria control immune cell activation and the effectiveness of immunotherapy

    A CNIC-led study identifies a mitochondrial “checkpoint” that enables dendritic cells to efficiently activate T lymphocytes against viruses and tumors
    Faseeha Ayaz
    Research
    30 Apr 2026
    Faseeha Ayaz: "I would say the editors are very much on the researchers’ side"

    Faseeha Ayaz, senior Editor Nature Communications, Springer Nature
    Justin Perry
    About the CNIC
    5 Mar 2026
    Justin Perry: "In science, we are wrong all the time"

    Justin Perry, Associate Member in the Immunology Program of the Sloan Kettering Institute at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and an Assistant Professor in the Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Program at Weill Cornell Medical Center
    Raquel Martínez de Meno, Rebeca Acín Pérez, José Antonio Enríquez, Sara Jaroszewicz y Rebeca Sanz-Cortés.
    Research
    16 Feb 2026
    Nature Metabolism: A yeast enzyme helps human cells overcome mitochondrial defects

    A new CNIC-led study shows that a genetic tool derived from baker’s yeast enables human cells to manufacture the building blocks of DNA even when their mitochondria fail.
    Neutrophils (red) accumulate in the alveoli of a flu-infected lung
    Research
    2 Dec 2025
    Nature: NeuMap, a pioneering map of neutrophils that redefines their role in health, infection, and inflammation

    An international team has published NeuMap, the first atlas to reveal the global architecture of neutrophils, showing how this “first line of defense” reorganizes to protect, remember, and heal.