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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

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

Neutrophils (red) accumulate in the alveoli of a flu-infected lung
Research
2 Dec 2025

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.

David del Río-Aledo, Rubén Mota, Fátima Sánchez-Cabo, Carlos Torroja, Daniel Morales-Cano, Raúl Izquierdo-Serrano, Paula Nogales, Jesús Mateo, Leticia González-Cintado, Laura Carramolino y Ana Dopazo.
Research
12 Aug 2025

El 18FDG-PET is a type of positron emission tomography that measures how much energy the body’s cells consume.

Marina Rosa Moreno, Fátima Sánchez Cabo, José Luis Cabrera, José Antonio Enríquez, María Concepción Jiménez, Pablo Hernansanz Agustín  Lucía Sánchez-García.
Research
2 Jul 2025

CNIC researchers have uncovered the evolutionary logic of the OxPhos system—the cell’s “engine”—and developed a tool to detect mutations that cause mitochondrial disease

José Antonio Enríquez, Almudena Ramiro  y Silvia Priori.
About the CNIC
17 Jun 2025

The projects—led by Drs Almudena Ramiro, José Antonio Enríquez, and Silvia Priori—will receive a total of €5.25 million for CNIC research over the next 5 years

Joseph Hill
Research
31 May 2025

Dr. Joseph Hill holds the James T. Willerson, M.D., Chair in Cardiovascular Disease and the Frank M. Ryburn Jr. Chair in Cardiac Research at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Dr. Benjamin L. Prosser
Research
7 May 2025

Dr. Benjamin L. Prosser is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Giuseppe Danilo Norata
About the CNIC
3 Apr 2025

Dr. Giuseppe Danilo Norata is a Full Professor of Pharmacology at the Department of Excellence of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Milan

Prof. Yasuyuki Fujita, PhD, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Molecular Oncology
About the CNIC
26 Mar 2025

Prof. Yasuyuki Fujita, PhD, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Molecular Oncology

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About the CNIC
15 Jan 2025

The study describes an innovative probe for the noninvasive detection of macrophages using PET technology