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    About the CNIC
    18 May 2022
    The BrightFocus Foundation grants an Alzheimer’s Disease Research Standard Award to a CNIC project

    The project will examine long-term changes in plasma biomarkers of neuronal injury, neuroinflammation, and Alzheimer's disease in participants in the PESA-CNIC-SANTANDER study who have undergone imaging studies to map brain metabolism. The goal of the project is to determine how cardiovascular risk factors during midlife impact brain function
    An optical section from a ventral view of a mouse embryo at embryonic day E8.0. The section is overlain with a cast of the three-dimensional shape of the forming heart (red) and the incipient circulatory system (purple).
    Research
    17 May 2022
    Nature Cardiovascular Research: A CNIC team creates a dynamic 3D atlas of the formation of the embryonic heart

    The 3D atlas has allowed the scientists to identify the beginning of left–right asymmetry in the heart
    Macaca
    Research
    18 Apr 2022
    Nature: International Team Led by BGI Completes First Whole-Body Cell Atlas of a Non-Human Primate

    The research will provide insights into the development of potential treatments for neurological diseases and obesity, among other human conditions
    María García García, Miguel Ángel del Pozo Barriuso, Sara Sánchez Perales, Laura Sotodosos-Alonso, Enrique Calvo, Jesús Vázquez y Asier Echarri
    Research
    3 Mar 2022
    Nature Communications: CNIC scientists identify a shuttle protein required for the nuclear import of proteins essential for organ growth and development

    Most biological processes require the import to the cell nucleus of key regulatory factors; one of the most important of these factors is the protein YAP
    José Javier Fuster
    About the CNIC
    23 Feb 2022
    Nature Cardiovascular Research: Mutations acquired by blood cells are an indicator of cardiovascular risk

    Researchers from the CNIC and Columbia University (USA) review the role of acquired mutations and clonal hematopoiesis in cardiovascular disease
    Miguel Palomino Segura, Georgiana Crainiciuc, Jon Sicilia y Andrés Hidalgo
    Research
    5 Jan 2022
    Nature: CNIC scientists discover a cell behavior pattern that predicts cardiovascular disease

    Scientists at the CNIC have developed a simple model for studying the behavior of immune cells in live animals and have identified a harmful cell behavior pattern associated with cardiovascular disease
    Alfonso Mora, Ayelén Santamans, Luis Leiva, Guadalupe Sabio, José Antonio Enríquez y Barbara Gonzalez Terán.
    Research
    24 Nov 2021
    PLoS Biology: CNIC scientists identify two proteins essential for postnatal cardiac metabolism

    The study, published in PLoS Biology, shows for the first time that cardiac metabolism in the postnatal period determines the regulation of metabolism in the whole body
    Almudena Ramiro
    About the CNIC
    15 Jun 2021
    Almudena Ramiro, Caja Rural de Granada Foundation, Health Sciences Award

    The team led by Dr Ramiro has identified a target protein for the diagnosis and treatment of vascular pathologies
    About the CNIC
    9 Jun 2021
    Article by Dr Sabio's group receives the Antoni Esteve Foundation Research Award

    The study, published in Nature in 2019, revealed relevant data about the involvement of the protein p38gamma in the development of the main type of primary liver cancer, which affects over a million people a year worldwide
    Skeletal staining of the inferior limb regions of normal embryos, embryos with a single Meis allele, and an embryo with complete absence of Meis. Embryos with a single copy of Meis lack the fibula and posterior digits (black arrow). Total absence of Meis prevents limb development (white arrow).
    Research
    2 Jun 2021
    Nature Communications: CNIC scientists identify essential factors for limb formation

    The study, published in Nature Communications, reveals that Meis transcription factors are essential for the formation and antero-posterior patterning of the limbs during embryonic development