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Laboratory of Neural Stem Cells and Brain Damage, headed by Daniel Tornero PhD. We use Neural Stem Cells to repare and model the Human Brain.

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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Ratones con millones de neuronas humanas en su cerebro acercan la respuesta a enfermedades mentales
Científicos de Estados Unidos y España crean roedores vivos cuya corteza cerebral proviene de personas sanas para facilitar la investigación del autismo, la esquizofrenia y la epilepsia
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Thrilled to start new collaborative project between @idibell.bsky.social and @idibaps.bsky.social, funded by Lindonlight Collective! 🚀 We will develop human stem cell-based models to investigate FGFR1 mutations in pediatric low-grade gliomas using CRISPR and brain organoids. 🧠🧬 lnkd.in/p/ek8vz4_X
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Cajal Club @cajalclub.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Congratulations to Marina Pavlou & Marie d'Orange, recipients of the International Awards at the 3rd Edition of the #CajalChallengeAccepted Workshop, Barcelona! Awards support outstanding research advancing regenerative neuroscience inspired by Cajal cajalclub.org/news #Cajal #Neuroscience #Science
This is the award announcement for the Cajal's Challenge accepted that features portraits of Dr. Marina Pavlou (top) and Dr. Marie d'Orange (bottom).
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Happy with my talk yesterday at the @imbavienna.bsky.social. Many thanks for the kind invitation and for hosting such a stimulating scientific exchange. I truly enjoyed the discussions and the opportunity to connect with colleagues working at the forefront of brain research. @ubneuro.bsky.social
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Last week I had the pleasure of giving a talk at the Liceu Politècnic, Sant Cugat, on the topic: Stem cells to repair and model the human brain 🧠✨ Grateful for the invitation, the great questions, and the inspiring atmosphere. Science, education, and equality go hand in hand. @ubneuro.bsky.social
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
🚀 Cajal’s Challenge Accepted – 2026 Edition 🧠 Understanding the Paths from Neuron Induction to Circuit Integration 📅 6 July 2026 | 📍 Universitat de Barcelona 💡 Poster abstracts encouraged 🏆 Cajal Club Prize for students, short talk & $500 travel grant. 🔗 Free registration: lnkd.in/dDZPYW4T
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Dani Tornero @dtorneroprivate.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
🚀 Cajal’s Challenge Accepted – 2026 Edition 🧠 Understanding the Paths from Neuron Induction to Circuit Integration 📅 6 July 2026 | 📍 Universitat de Barcelona 💡 Poster abstracts encouraged 🏆 Cajal Club Prize for students, short talk & $500 travel grant. 🔗 Free registration: lnkd.in/dDZPYW4T
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Our collaboration with @theconversation.com is now available in English! Thanks to @ub.edu and @ubneuro.bsky.social. How stem cell therapy can regenerate brain tissue after a stroke theconversation.com/how-stem-cel...
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How stem cell therapy can regenerate brain tissue after a stroke
For decades, stroke damage was though to be irreversible.
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Échale un vistazo a nuestro artículo en The Conversation donde intentamos acercar nuestra investigación al público general. Muy orgulloso del equipo y del apoyo de @ub.edu y @ubneuro.bsky.social. 🔬🧬💊🧠🧫 👇 web.ub.edu/es/web/actua...
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Terapia con células madre: ¿una nueva era en la regeneración cerebral después de un ictus?
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Our new paper in iScience is out! 🧠✨ “Variability vs Phenotype: multimodal analysis of Dravet Syndrome Brain Organoids powered by Deep Learning.” #Neuroscience #Organoids #AI #DravetSyndrome Open access 👇 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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Variability vs Phenotype: multimodal analysis of Dravet Syndrome Brain Organoids powered by Deep Learning
Dravet Syndrome (DS) is a developmental epileptic encephalopathy (DEE) driven by pathogenic variants in SCN1A gene. Brain organoids (BO) have emerged as reliable models for neurodevelopmental genetic ...
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
You cannot miss the next talk from the "Cicle Continuat de Conferències". Dr. Danial Roshandel will show us the status of Stem Cell Transplantation for Ocular Regeneration! #stencells #regenerativemedicine #celltherapy
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
🎉Our last paper, BDNF Overexpression Enhances Neuronal Activity and Axonal Growth in Human iPSC-Derived Neural Cultures, has been featured on the @ub.edu website! The article highlights our recent work on stem cell-based therapies for brain damage. @ubneuro.bsky.social 🔬🧠🧫 web.ub.edu/en/web/actua...
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New advances to boost regeneration and plasticity of brain neurons
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been announced!! Congrats to the awarded!
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BREAKING NEWS The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their… | The N...
BREAKING NEWS The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discover...
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
You cannot miss this talk! Sergio Gascón PhD in Barcelona! @ubneuro.bsky.social @ub.edu @idibaps.bsky.social
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Book the date in your calendars for the next Talk! @ub.edu @ubneuro.bsky.social You cannot miss it!! #reprogramming #neurons
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
🎉 We’re thrilled to share our lab’s latest publication with the scientific community! This fantastic work was part of the iGEM competition, with the help of @ubneuro.bsky.social, @ub.edu, @idibaps.bsky.social and CIBERNED. Read the article here 👉 www.mdpi.com/3422314
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Next talk at the Faculty of Medicine @ub.edu. Sponsorized by the @ubneuro.bsky.social. Don't miss it!
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
First round of fMRI in stroke-damaged mice with stem cell transplantation. Very exciting day for our project! With Marie Karam, José T. Garrido, Guadalupe Soria Rodríguez, @ubneuro.bsky.social and @idibaps.bsky.social. #Stroke #StemCells #RegenerativeMedicine #Brain 🧠 🔬
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Interesting results from the group of Claire Parish! Exercise promotes the functional integration of human stem cell-derived neural grafts in a rodent model of Parkinson’s disease: Stem Cell Reports www.cell.com/stem-cell-re...
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Exercise promotes the functional integration of human stem cell-derived neural grafts in a rodent model of Parkinson’s disease
Moriarty and colleagues demonstrate the benefit of exercise in promoting plasticity of human pluripotent stem cell-derived neural grafts in Parkinsonian rat model. These effects, observed for ectopic ...
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
First results from clinical trials published in Nature! Human iPSC-derived dopaminergic neurons transplanted in the brain of patients with Parkinson's Dieseas. More results from Sweden and US will come soon! #RegenerativeMedicine #Parkinson #StemCells www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Phase I/II trial of iPS-cell-derived dopaminergic cells for Parkinson’s disease - Nature
After transplantation into the brain of patients with Parkinson’s disease, allogeneic dopaminergic progenitors derived from induced pluripotent stem cells survived, produced dopamine and did not form ...
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Very happy with this wonderful recognition from my hometown. As scientists, we are not used to this kind of awards. Thanks to the Cultural Association of Albacete in Madrid, the government of the Province of Albacete, @ub.edu and @ubneuro.bsky.social.
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Read our last paper Published today! With Marie KARAM and Alba Ortega Gascó, two talented postdocs in the Laboratory of Neural Stem Cells and Brain Damage. @ub.edu, @ubneuro.bsky.social, @idibaps.bsky.social and CIBERNED. www.mdpi.com/3251774
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Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut @medicinacs-ub.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Nova sessió del cicle continuat de conferències de la Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut: Philippe Séguéla, científic de McGill University, ve a l’Aula Magna del #CampusCLÍNIC el 2 d’abril @ubneuro.bsky.social @nscbraindamage.bsky.social #FMiCS 🖱️ bit.ly/41ZkSOl
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
This week, Alba Ortega Gascó, postdoc in the lab, was presenting our last results at the Stem Cell Models of Neurodegeneration Meeting, in Edinburgh, UK. @ubneuro.bsky.social , @idibaps.bsky.social #Assembloids #AlzheimerDisease 🧫 🧠 🔬
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Another talk comming soon in our Cicle of Conferences! Don't miss this opportunity! “Ion channels and pain circuits: from ASICs to the Anterior Cingulate Cortex” #pain #brain #research @ub.edu www.ub.edu/portal/web/m...
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Cicle-Continuat-de-Conferencies-de-la-FMiCS-Ion-channels-and-pain-circuits-from-ASICs-to-the-Anterior-Cingulate-Cortex - Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut - Universitat de Barcelona
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Happy to have the whole group together.: Marie Karam (postdoc, Lebanon/FRA), José Garrido (phd st, PRT), Federica Passeri (master student, ITA), Alba Ortega (postdoc,CAT), Clàudia Puigsasllosas (phd st, CAT), and Anna-Christina Haeb (phd st, GER)!🔬🧠 @ub.edu @ubneuro.bsky.social @idibaps.bsky.social
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Looking for a PhD position? You have to check this! #phd #research #opportunity training.vbc.ac.at/phd-program/
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PhD Program
Empowering Curious Researchers at the Vienna BioCenter PhD Program Are you a curious and motivated student looking to launch a successful scientific career? Look no further than the Vienna BioCenter P...
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Nueva distinción para el proyecto contra el ictus Reneurish, impulsado por estudiantes de la UB - Actualidad - Universidad de Barcelona @ub.edu @ubneuro.bsky.social web.ub.edu/es/web/actua...
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Nueva distinción para el proyecto contra el ictus Reneurish, impulsado por estudiantes de la UB
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Great visit to the Cortical Labs stand at the #MWC25. Thanks @sandraacosta.bsky.social, Ángeles Rabadán, ZeNEUROID and of course Brett Kagan for a fantastic collaboration! #corticalneurons #brain #artificialintelligence
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Fantastic last day at the MWC Barcelona 2025, the world’s largest and most influential connectivity event #MWC25. Thanks to @startub.bsky.social and the rest of the network from @ub.edu!
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Today, the Steering Committee of the @ubneuro.bsky.social (@ub.edu) has visited the facilities of the new Cognitive Neuroscience Unit. A space with a lot of potential that we hope will be filled with exciting projects. #cognitiveneuroscience #brain More information 👇 www.event-lab.org
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
If you are looking for a PhD in Biomedicine, this can be a nice opportunity: #phd #biomedicine #job #opportunity 🧬🔬💊 interact-msca.ku.dk
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INTERACT - Interdisciplinary Marie S. Curie Action for Health – Københavns Universitet
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Next Wednesday (19th of February) @idibaps.bsky.social will host Prof. Hal Dietz, who is giving a talk entitled: "Leveraging nature’s success: lessons from modifiers of Marfan Syndrome and related vascular disorders". With the support of @ub.edu www.clinicbarcelona.org/actividades/...
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IDIBAPS SEMINAR: Leveraging nature’s success: lessons from modifiers of Marfan Syndrome and rel
Prof. Dr. Hal Dietz Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA Presentado por Gustavo Egea.
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
El CSIC conmemora el Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia con más de 200 actividades www.csic.es/es/actualida...
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El CSIC conmemora el Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia con más de 200 actividades | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
El personal científico y técnico del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) se suma una edición más a la conmemoración del 11F, Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia, c...
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Starting the new year by reaching 2k citations is very exciting! We will work to continue improving our impact. @ubneuro.bsky.social @ub.edu @idibaps.bsky.social
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Barcelona Team (@ub.edu, @ubneuro.bsky.social) in the final project meeting from #NEUChiP. Organized by @astonuniversity.bsky.social and @lborouniversity.bsky.social at the wonderful city of Lichfield. Good science and the best company!
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
New talk in our Conference Cicle, next Tuesday the 4th of February at 13.00h, at the Faculty of Medicine (Aula Magna). See you there!! @ub.edu #artificialintelligence #AI Computational Pathology and Artificial Intelligence for Precision Medicine in the era of ChatGPT www.ub.edu/portal/web/m...
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The UB improves in several areas of knowledge in the World University Rankings by Subject - Current events - University of Barcelona web.ub.edu/en/web/actua...
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The UB improves in several areas of knowledge in the World University Rankings by Subject
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
This March, UK Dementia Research Institute is hosting the Symposium Stem Cell Models in Neurodegeneration, as part of the CURE-ND network. High-profile speakers and the city of Edinburgh as background. More info here 👉 lnkd.in/dWuG-PAp #StemCells #Organoids #Brain 🧠 🔬
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Dani Tornero @dtorneroprivate.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Today, we have been at Santo Angel School (Gavá, Barcelona) to present our work in front of a group of motivated students. Great experience always meeting the next generations of scientists. @ubneuro.bsky.social @ub.edu #stemcells #stroke 🧠🔬🧫
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Dr. Pablo Barrecheguren🧠 @neurocosas.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Recuerdo cuando valoré hacer la tesis en el CNIO o cuando conocí a gente del CNIO, y todos me contaron historias muy negativas de como María Blasco trataba a sus trabajadores. Al parecer, esta investigación corroborarían bastante esos testimonios: elpais.com/ciencia/2024...
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Una investigación oficial culpa a María Blasco de abuso de poder en el CNIO
El Ministerio de Ciencia puede abrir una convocatoria para elegir nueva directora del centro
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Very happy with the impact of our work! Already 200 citations this 2024. Let's try to improve for next year, with the help of @ub.edu, @ubneuro.bsky.social and @idibaps.bsky.social.
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Dancing microglia!
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Katherine Brown @katherine-brown.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
In September, we lost one of developmental neurobiology's greats. Many thanks to Carlos Villaescusa for summarising the many contributions that Ernest Arenas made over the years - both scientifically and for the research community journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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Ernest Arenas (1962-2024): a legacy of advancing dopaminergic neurogenesis research
The scientific community mourns the loss of Ernest Arenas, a visionary neuroscientist and pioneer in the field of stem cell neurobiology who, throughout his career, displayed a deep dedication to unra...
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Tornero's Lab @nscbraindamage.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Very proud of iGEM-UB team, that returned from Paris iGEM Jamboree with the Gold Medal 🏅 representing @ub.edu and @ubneuro.bsky.social! I couldn't be happier! They deserve it after all that hard work! #Reneurish
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