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• 15/10/2025 - Events

  The PENSA study concludes with a farewell celebration for its participants

  The project, conducted jointly with the Barcelonaβeta Research Center and whose results were published in The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease, involved around one hundred volunteers who were followed for more than a year. To mark the end of five years of collaboration-beginning with the recruitment of participants-the volunteers took part in an event where the study's findings were presented. It was a way to return the results to those who made the research possible.

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• 26/05/2016 - Events

  Biomarker discovered that measures the risk of cancer in non-smokers

  Researchers from the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) have, for the first time, demonstrated that measurements of a tobacco-specific nitrosamine in the hair, NNK, correlate with the real risk of exposure to the carcinogens in tobacco smoke in passive smokers. This substance is a much better biomarker than any of the markers measured up to now for assessing this risk and it has been found in higher concentrations in the hair than any other tobacco-specific carcinogen. The study was conducted in collaboration with researchers at the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) and has been published in the journal Scientific Reports. The smoke passive smokers are exposed to differs from the smoke of smokers. Passive smokers are exposed to a lot of chemicals resulting from the combustion of the cigarette, but in addition, certain substances have gone through various activation reactions, making them carcinogenic.

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• 01/08/2008 - Events

  Available presentations of scientific meeting on doping organized by Jordi Segura

  

  Last Tuesday 22 July, in the framework of the Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF 2008), the session ‘Doping and society: towards the perfect human machine?’ was held, with the aim of providing a general overview of the fight against doping from different viewpoints: scientific, institutional, ethical and the viewpoint of the athletes themselves.

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