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Scientists led by Dr Anna Veiga and Dr Sergi Querol have generated seven pluripotent stem cell lines from umbilical cord blood, compatible with 20% of the Spanish population.

These induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are created from adult cells from umbilical cord blood and can be used to produce advanced therapy drugs and test them in clinical trials, for example in retinal regeneration, heart, or immunotherapies.

Certain variations in our DNA, which had previously gone unnoticed, can have a significant impact on the development of cancer.
62% of the cancer susceptibility genes identified are completely new, which opens up new avenues of study in cancer research.

Astrocytes in the brains of Parkinson’s patients overexpress the inflammatory cytokine IL-6, which induces the death of dopaminergic neurons.
The results have been obtained thanks to obtaining induced pluripotent stem cells from Parkinson’s patients.

Stem Cell Potency group, lead by Dr. Ángel Raya at the P-CMR[C] and IDIBELL, together with three other research teams from IDIBELL, have been awarded by La Marató 3Cat Foundation.