Imperial College London

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Professor of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London

Honorary Senior Lecturer at the National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London

Professor of Fire Science at Imperial College London.

Director of Research at the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and Environment, Imperial College London

Professor of Genetics and Genomics at Imperial College London and group leader at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona

Senior Lecturer in Climate Science at the Department of Physics, Imperial College London

Reader in Paediatric Allergy at Imperial College London

Reproductive immunologist

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encode

Un equipo internacional en el que participa Roderic Guigó, del Centro de Regulación Genómica de Barcelona, ha elaborado el mapa más detallado hasta la fecha de los enhancers, o potenciadores, regiones del ADN que controlan los genes humanos y que funcionan como reguladores de intensidad. En el trabajo, desarrollado por el consorcio ENCODE, se han trazado más de 92 millones de posibles interacciones entre estos reguladores y los genes sobre los que actúan en distintas células y tejidos. Esta información puede ser importante para comprender las enfermedades, ya que buena parte de las variantes genéticas que se han asociado a trastornos comunes no se encuentran dentro de los propios genes, sino en regiones reguladoras. El estudio se publica en Nature.

incendio almería

The wildfire in Los Gallardos (Almería), which broke out on Thursday evening, has so far claimed 13 lives. Initial investigations suggest that a fallen power line may have been the cause of the fire. The blaze has burnt more than 3,000 hectares and has left 1,400 people displaced.

Heat

The year 2024 was the warmest year on record globally and the first calendar year in which the global average temperature exceeded its pre-industrial level by 1.5 °C, the Copernicus Climate Change Service has confirmed.  

baby

A series on breastfeeding published today in The Lancet highlights the economic and political power of formula companies, examines their marketing practices and the impact this has on the health of mothers and children.

Lactancia

Research with 11 lactating women vaccinated against covid-19 has found small amounts of mRNA from the vaccine in breast milk, undetectable 48 hours later.

ciclistas

A study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment (from Nature Research) estimates that a reduction of 686 million tonnes of carbon emissions could be achieved each year if the world followed a cycling pattern similar to that of the Netherlands (2.6 kilometres per day). This is about 20 % of the carbon emissions produced by the global passenger car fleet in 2015.