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Adapted methods for monitoring influenza virus and respiratory syncytial virus in sludge and wastewater 

Toribio-Avedillo, Daniel; Gómez-Gómez, Clara; Sala Comorera, Laura; Galofré, Belén; Muniesa Pérez, Ma. Teresa (2025-12-02)

Wastewater-based surveillance constitutes a valuable methodology for the continuous monitoring of viral circulation, with the capacity to function as an early warning system. It holds particular significance in scenarios ...

Assessing environmental exposure to viruses in wastewater treatment plant and swine farm scenarios with next-generation sequencing and occupational risk approaches 

Itarte, Marta; Calvo, Miquel (Calvo Llorca); Martínez-Frago, Lola; Mejías-Molina, Cristina; Martínez-Puchol, Sandra; Gironès Llop, Rosina; Medema, Gertjan; Bofill Mas, Silvia; Rusiñol Arantegui, Marta (2025-12-02)

Occupational exposure to pathogens can pose health risks. This study investigates the viral exposure of workers in a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) and a swine farm by analyzing aerosol and surfaces samples. Viral ...

La inspiració deixa empremta al cervell 

Bueno i Torrens, David, 1965- (2025-11-11)

Deia Pablo Picasso que “la inspiració existeix, però t’ha de trobar treballant”. Quan tenim un moment d’inspiració, notem un impuls creatiu que creix dins nostre. Ens permet imaginar les coses més espectaculars i, sovint, ...

Metabolite Biomarkers Linking a High-Fiber Rye Intervention with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors: The RyeWeight Study. 

Unión-Caballero, Andrea; Meroño, Tomás; Åberg, Sebastian; Nordin, Elise; Dicksved, Johan; Sànchez, Àlex (Sànchez Pla); Cubedo Culleré, Marta; Carmona Pontaque, Francesc; Iversen, Kia No̷hr; Martínez Huélamo, Miriam; Guadall, Anna; Landberg, Rikard; Andrés Lacueva, Ma. Cristina (2025-09-12)

Wholegrain rye, considered one of the cereals with the highest content of dietary fiber and bioactive compounds, has been linked with reduced risk of cardiometabolic diseases. Thus, biomarkers reflecting its intake and/or ...

Optimized alveolar epithelial cell model for chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus coinfections 

Admella, Joana; Alcàcer Almansa, Júlia; Julian, Esther; Torrents Serra, Eduard (2025-10-16)

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a relevant pathogen in chronic respiratory infections, which are usually associated with biofilm formation, complicating in vitro modeling and effective treatment strategies. While P. aeruginosa ...

The long 5′ UTR of nrdAB modulates mRNA levels, stability, and virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 

Martínez Mateos, Ángela; Rubio Canalejas, Alba; Pedraz López, Lucas; Torrents Serra, Eduard (2025-11-06)

The class Ia ribonucleotide reductase (RNR), encoded by the nrdAB operon in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, has a long 5’ untranslated region (5’ UTR) whose regulatory role remains poorly understood. In this study, we investigated ...

Temporal and habitat adaptations in Drosophila subobscura populations: changes in chromosomal inversions  

Zivanovic, Goran; Arenas Solà, Concepción; Mestres i Naval, Francesc (2025-07-21)

In insects, chromosomal inversion polymorphism has been related with different adaptations, including global warming. Regarding this environmental change, Drosophila subobscura stands out as a useful model species due to ...

Characterizing decision-making and reward processing in bipolar disorder: A cluster analysis 

Jiménez Martínez, Ester; Solé Cabezuelo, Brisa; Arias Sampériz, Bárbara; Mitjans Niubó, Marina; Varo, Cristina; Reinares, María; Bonnín Roig, Caterina del Mar; Salagre Muñoz, Estela; Ruíz, Victoria; Torres, Imma; Tomioka, Yoko; Sáiz Martínez, Pilar Alejandra; García-Portilla González, María Paz, 1962-; Burón, Patricia; Bobes García, Julio; Martínez-Arán, Anabel, 1971-; Torrent Font, Carla; Vieta i Pascual, Eduard, 1963-; Benabarre, Antonio (2025-10-06)

The presence of abnormalities in emotional decision-making and reward processing among bipolar patients (BP) has been well rehearsed. These disturbances are not limited to acute phases and are common even during remission. ...

Heterochrony in orthodenticle expression is associated with ommatidial size variation between Drosophila species 

Torres-Oliva, Montserrat; Buchberger, Elisa; Buffry, Alexandra D.; Kittelmann, Maike; Guerrero, Genoveva; Sumner-Rooney, Lauren; Gaspar, Pedro; Bullinger, Georg C.; Figueras Jimenez, Javier; Casares, Fernando; Arif, Saad; Posnien, Nico; Nunes, Maria D. S.; McGregor, Alistair P.; Almudí Cabrero, Isabel (2025-02-11)

Background: The compound eyes of insects exhibit extensive variation in ommatidia number and size, which affects how they see and underlies adaptations in their vision to different environments and lifestyles. However, ...

GALEON: a comprehensive bioinformatic tool to analyse and visualize gene clusters in complete genomes 

Pisarenco, Vadim A.; Vizueta, Joel; Rozas Liras, Julio A. (2025-02-10)

Motivation: Gene clusters, defined as a set of genes encoding functionally related proteins, are abundant in eukaryotic genomes. Despite the increasing availability of chromosome-level genomes, the comprehensive analysis ...

Editorial: Applied bioinformatics in insect physiology 

Venthur, Herbert; Vizueta, Joel; Lozano-Fernandez, Jesus (2025-02-03)

Since the early 2000s, understanding gene function in invertebrates has become approachable through genomics (Smith and Eyre-Walker, 2002; Clark et al., 2007). Some years later, high-throughput DNA and RNA sequencing became ...

Metabolome biomarkers linking dietary fibre intake with cardiometabolic effects: results from the Danish Diet, Cancer and Health-Next Generations MAX study 

Unión-Caballero, Andrea; Meroño, Tomás; Zamora-Ros, Raul; Linn Rostgaard-Hansen, Agneta; Miñarro Alonso, Antonio; Sànchez, Àlex (Sànchez Pla); Estanyol-Torres, Núria; Martínez Huélamo, Miriam; Cubedo Culleré, Marta; González-Domínguez, Raúl; Tjønneland, Anne; Riccardi, Gabrielle; Landberg, Rikard; Halkjær, Jytte; Andrés Lacueva, Ma. Cristina (2024-02-27)

Biomarkers associated with dietary fibre intake, as complements to traditional dietary assessment tools, may improve the understanding of its role in human health. Our aim was to discover metabolite biomarkers related to ...

Genome-wide analyses of ADHD identify 27 risk loci, refine the genetic architecture and implicate several cognitive domains 

Demontis, Dittie; Walters, G. Bragi; Athanasiadis, Georgios; Walters, Raymond; Therrien, Karen; Farajzadeh, Leila; Voloudakis, Georgios; Bendl, Jaroslav; Zeng, Biau; Zhang, Wen; Grove, Jakob; Als, Thomas D.; Duan, Jinjie; Satterstrom, F.Kyle; Bybjerg Grauholm, Jonas; Bækved Hansen, Marie; Gudmundsson, Ofaur O.; Magnusson, Sigurdur H.; Baldursson, Gisli; Davidsdottir, Katrin; Haraldsdottir, Gyda S.; Nielsen, Trine Tollerup; Agerbo, Esben; Hoffman, Gabriel E.; Dalsgaard, S.; Martin, Joanna; Ribasés Haro, Marta; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Soler Artigas, María; Roth Mota, Nina; Howrigan, Daniel; Medland, Sarah E.; Zayats, Tetyana; ADHD Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; iPSYCH-Broad Consortium; Nordentoft, Merete; Mors, Ole; Hougaard, David M.; Mortensen, Preben Bo; Cormand, Bru (2023-04-27)

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder with a major genetic component. Here, we present a genome-wide association study meta-analysis of ADHD comprising 38,691 individuals ...

Aprendre dels altres és bo, però aprendre amb els altres és millor 

Bueno i Torrens, David, 1965- (2023-05-03)

Des del punt de vista evolutiu, es considera que les persones, els Homo sapiens, disposem de dues adaptacions biològiques crucials per a la supervivència: la capacitat del cervell per adquirir aprenentatges nous tota la ...

Genome-wide analyses of ADHD identify 27 risk loci, refine the genetic architecture and implicate several cognitive domains 

Demontis, Dittie; Walters, G. Bragi; Athanasiadis, Georgios; Walters, Raymond; Therrien, Karen; Farajzadeh, Leila; Voloudakis, Georgios; Bendl, Jaroslav; Zeng, Biau; Zhang, Wen; Grove, Jakob; Als, Thomas D.; Duan, Jinjie; Satterstrom, F.Kyle; Bybjerg Grauholm, Jonas; Bækved Hansen, Marie; Gudmundsson, Ofaur O.; Magnusson, Sigurdur H.; Baldursson, Gisli; Davidsdottir, Katrin; Haraldsdottir, Gyda S.; Nielsen, Trine Tollerup; Agerbo, Esben; Hoffman, Gabriel E.; Dalsgaard, S.; Martin, Joanna; Ribasés Haro, Marta; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Soler Artigas, María; Roth Mota, Nina; Howrigan, Daniel; Medland, Sarah E.; Zayats, Tetyana; ADHD Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; iPSYCH-Broad Consortium; Nordentoft, Merete; Mors, Ole; Hougaard, David M.; Mortensen, Preben Bo; Cormand, Bru (2023-04-27)

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder with a major genetic component. Here, we present a genome-wide association study meta-analysis of ADHD comprising 38,691 individuals ...

Genome-wide analyses of ADHD identify 27 risk loci, refine the genetic architecture and implicate several cognitive domains 

Demontis, Dittie; Walters, G. Bragi; Athanasiadis, Georgios; Walters, Raymond; Therrien, Karen; Farajzadeh, Leila; Voloudakis, Georgios; Bendl, Jaroslav; Zeng, Biau; Zhang, Wen; Grove, Jakob; Als, Thomas D.; Duan, Jinjie; Satterstrom, F.Kyle; Bybjerg Grauholm, Jonas; Bækved Hansen, Marie; Gudmundsson, Ofaur O.; Magnusson, Sigurdur H.; Baldursson, Gisli; Davidsdottir, Katrin; Haraldsdottir, Gyda S.; Nielsen, Trine Tollerup; Agerbo, Esben; Hoffman, Gabriel E.; Dalsgaard, S.; Martin, Joanna; Ribasés Haro, Marta; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Soler Artigas, María; Roth Mota, Nina; Howrigan, Daniel; Medland, Sarah E.; Zayats, Tetyana; ADHD Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; iPSYCH-Broad Consortium; Nordentoft, Merete; Mors, Ole; Hougaard, David M.; Mortensen, Preben Bo; Cormand, Bru (2023-04-27)

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder with a major genetic component. Here, we present a genome-wide association study meta-analysis of ADHD comprising 38,691 individuals ...

Genome-wide analyses of ADHD identify 27 risk loci, refine the genetic architecture and implicate several cognitive domains 

Demontis, Dittie; Walters, G. Bragi; Athanasiadis, Georgios; Walters, Raymond; Therrien, Karen; Farajzadeh, Leila; Voloudakis, Georgios; Bendl, Jaroslav; Zeng, Biau; Zhang, Wen; Grove, Jakob; Als, Thomas D.; Duan, Jinjie; Satterstrom, F.Kyle; Bybjerg Grauholm, Jonas; Bækved Hansen, Marie; Gudmundsson, Ofaur O.; Magnusson, Sigurdur H.; Baldursson, Gisli; Davidsdottir, Katrin; Haraldsdottir, Gyda S.; Nielsen, Trine Tollerup; Agerbo, Esben; Hoffman, Gabriel E.; Dalsgaard, S.; Martin, Joanna; Ribasés Haro, Marta; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Soler Artigas, María; Roth Mota, Nina; Howrigan, Daniel; Medland, Sarah E.; Zayats, Tetyana; ADHD Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; iPSYCH-Broad Consortium; Nordentoft, Merete; Mors, Ole; Hougaard, David M.; Mortensen, Preben Bo; Cormand, Bru (2023-04-27)

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder with a major genetic component. Here, we present a genome-wide association study meta-analysis of ADHD comprising 38,691 individuals ...

Genome-wide analyses of ADHD identify 27 risk loci, refine the genetic architecture and implicate several cognitive domains 

Demontis, Dittie; Walters, G. Bragi; Athanasiadis, Georgios; Walters, Raymond; Therrien, Karen; Farajzadeh, Leila; Voloudakis, Georgios; Bendl, Jaroslav; Zeng, Biau; Zhang, Wen; Grove, Jakob; Als, Thomas D.; Duan, Jinjie; Satterstrom, F.Kyle; Bybjerg Grauholm, Jonas; Bækved Hansen, Marie; Gudmundsson, Ofaur O.; Magnusson, Sigurdur H.; Baldursson, Gisli; Davidsdottir, Katrin; Haraldsdottir, Gyda S.; Nielsen, Trine Tollerup; Agerbo, Esben; Hoffman, Gabriel E.; Dalsgaard, S.; Martin, Joanna; Ribasés Haro, Marta; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Soler Artigas, María; Roth Mota, Nina; Howrigan, Daniel; Medland, Sarah E.; Zayats, Tetyana; ADHD Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; iPSYCH-Broad Consortium; Nordentoft, Merete; Mors, Ole; Hougaard, David M.; Mortensen, Preben Bo; Cormand, Bru (2023-04-27)

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder with a major genetic component. Here, we present a genome-wide association study meta-analysis of ADHD comprising 38,691 individuals ...

Genome-wide analyses of ADHD identify 27 risk loci, refine the genetic architecture and implicate several cognitive domains 

Demontis, Dittie; Walters, G. Bragi; Athanasiadis, Georgios; Walters, Raymond; Therrien, Karen; Farajzadeh, Leila; Voloudakis, Georgios; Bendl, Jaroslav; Zeng, Biau; Zhang, Wen; Grove, Jakob; Als, Thomas D.; Duan, Jinjie; Satterstrom, F.Kyle; Bybjerg Grauholm, Jonas; Bækved Hansen, Marie; Gudmundsson, Ofaur O.; Magnusson, Sigurdur H.; Baldursson, Gisli; Davidsdottir, Katrin; Haraldsdottir, Gyda S.; Nielsen, Trine Tollerup; Agerbo, Esben; Hoffman, Gabriel E.; Dalsgaard, S.; Martin, Joanna; Ribasés Haro, Marta; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Soler Artigas, María; Roth Mota, Nina; Howrigan, Daniel; Medland, Sarah E.; Zayats, Tetyana; ADHD Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; iPSYCH-Broad Consortium; Nordentoft, Merete; Mors, Ole; Hougaard, David M.; Mortensen, Preben Bo; Cormand, Bru (2023-04-27)

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder with a major genetic component. Here, we present a genome-wide association study meta-analysis of ADHD comprising 38,691 individuals ...

Genomic analyses reveal FoxG as an upstream regulator of wnt1 required for posterior identity specification in planarians 

Pascual-Carreras, Eudald; Marín-Barba, M.; Castillo-Lara, S.; Coronel-Córdoba, Pablo; Magri, M.S.; Wheeler, G.N.; Abril Ferrando, Josep Francesc, 1970-; Gomez-Skarmeta, J.L.; Saló i Boix, Emili; Adell i Creixell, Teresa (2023-01-30)

Embryonic specification of the first body axis requires the formation of an Organizer, a group of cells with the ability to instruct fates in the surrounding tissue. The existence of organizing regions in adults, i.e. ...

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