“Vanguardia de la Ciencia” Award
La Vanguardia newspaper published an article about the winners of the "Vanguardia de la Ciencia" Award, organised by the same newspaper and the Catalunya-La Pedrera Foundation. A study by Marc Claret from IDIBAPS and Antonio Zorzano from IRB Barcelona revealing that a small group of neurons communicates with the pancreas to regulate the release of insulin got third place. This finding is an advance in the understanding of type 2 diabetes.
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La Vanguardia newspaper has interviewed Raúl Méndez, a researcher at IRB Barcelona, and José J. Lucas, from the Severo Ochoa Molecular Biology Center of the CSIC, about the study related to autism and that iscompeting for the Vanguardia de la Ciencia prize: "The fact that there are environmental factors involved in autism does not mean that vaccines are one of these environmental factors. The alleged relation between childhood vaccination and autism has no basis.
The research focuses on the CPEB4 protein, a key molecule in the development of this neurological disorder.
The award is a joint initiative of La Vanguardia and the Fundació Catalunya-La Pedrera.
