Sánchez Quinto, Federico A (Date of defense: 2014-11-28)
Almost 20 years of Neandertal paleogenetics studies have significantly increased our knowledge about their evolutionary history. The analysis of DNA recovered from Neandertal remains to date, suggest ...
Montaner Domènech, Anna (Date of defense: 2019-11-11)
discovery of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) in blood and the advent of massive parallel sequencing technologies has revolutionized the prenatal screening field by providing a better risk assessment of fetal ...
Merino Castelló, Anna (Date of defense: 2003-10-15)
A pesar de las ventajas económicas que a priori ofrecen los medicamentos genéricos, su tasa de penetración en el territorio nacional no alcanza de cuota de mercado de los correspondientes productos de ...
Toufighi, Kiana (Date of defense: 2014-10-31)
Over the last several decades, the emerging ‘integrated’ view of the cell has triumphed over the ‘one gene/one protein/one function’ paradigm. This is illustrated by the biologically opposite effects ...
Bettinardi, Ruggero G. (Date of defense: 2016-09-19)
Neuroscienti c research in the last decades has revealed that ongoing brain activity exhibits highly structured spatio-temporal patterns of neural activations. The fundamental core of this endogenously ...
Forner, Mar (Date of defense: 2021-02-24)
Vaccination constitutes one of the most efficient and cost-effective methods of promoting global health. Nevertheless, few vaccines are fully effective, for manifold reasons ranging from intrinsic ...
Facciolo Furlan, Gabriele (Date of defense: 2011-03-03)
The generation of urban digital elevation models from satellite images using stereo reconstruction techniques poses several challenges due to its precision requirements. In this thesis we study three ...
Herranz Ors, Carmen (Date of defense: 2019-12-16)
LAM is a rare metastasizing and destructive disorder of the lung. The disease is caused by cells carrying mutations in the TSC1/2 genes, but the tissue of origin of diseased cells remains unknown. The ...
Lugano, Roberta (Date of defense: 2013-12-10)
High levels of circulating low-density lipoproteins (LDL) are one of the major cardiovascular risk factors. Hypercholesterolemia induces endothelial dysfunction and chronic intimal inflammatory cell ...
Jagiełło, Bogumiła (Date of defense: 2018-12-05)
La localització de molècules d'ARNm permet regular la síntesi de proteïnes localment i temporalment i això és vital per molts processos cel·lular fonamentals. A Oligodendròcits el transport de l'ARNm ...