Phasing out fossil fuels could save millions of lives

The mortality burden attributable to air pollution from fossil fuel use is considerably higher than most previous estimates - a phaseout of fossil fuels would have tremendous, positive health outcomes

05-Dec-2023 - A new study by an international team of scientists provides new evidence to motivate rapid fossil fuel phaseout. The science team determined exposure to ambient air pollution and its health impacts using an updated atmospheric composition model, a newly developed relative risk model and recent ...

Eating walnuts on a regular basis could benefit adolescents' cognitive development and contribute to their psychological maturation

Concludes a world-leading study in this field led by the IISPV and with the collaboration of ISGlobal and the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM)

20-Apr-2023 - Eating walnuts on a regular basis could benefit the cognitive development of adolescents and contribute to their psychological maturation. These are some of the conclusions reached by a study led by the Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili (IISPV), in which ISGlobal (a centre promoted ...

Nanovectors Could Improve the Combined Administration of Antimalarial Drugs

According to the study, the strategy has the added advantage of targeting the transmissible phase of the parasite- the gametocyte

12-Aug-2019 - Encapsulating two drugs with different properties into nanovesicles surrounded by antibodies can greatly improve their delivery and efficacy, according toa study led by Xavier Fernández Busquets, director of the joint Nanomalaria unit at the Institute for Bionengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and ...

Exposure to air pollution before and after birth may affect fundamental cognitive abilities

27-May-2019 - A growing body of research suggests that exposure to air pollution in the earliest stages of life is associated with negative effects on cognitive abilities. A new study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by "la Caixa", has provided new data: exposure ...

Targeting a large family of parasites

Potential drug target is identified

23-Mar-2018 - Apicomplexa form one of the largest and most diverse groups of obligate intracellular parasites, capable of infecting almost every kind of animal. It is estimated that between 1.2 and 10 million species exist, but only about 5,000-6,000 have been identified to date. These include Plasmodium (that ...