Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)

Spain

The CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) is the largest and leading public research institution in Spain and the third in Europe due to the quality and quantity of its scientific production. It plays an essential role within the Spanish System for Science, Technology and Innovation and contributes to reinforce Spain’s position at the international level.

CSIC’s main aim is to develop and promote scientific studies to contribute to foster scientific and technological progress. CSIC's mission includes:

Multidisciplinary scientific and technical research
Scientific and technical advice
Transferring results to the private sector
Contributing to the creation of technology-driven companies
Training specialised personnel
Management of infrastructure and large facilities
Promoting scientific culture

The CSIC is multidisciplinary, carrying out research in almost all fields of knowledge. Its activities encompass basic research all the way through to technological development.

The CSIC is present in all the autonomous regions through their centres across Spain. It comprises 120 centres spread across Spain, and is also present in Brussels and Rome. It is formed by employees with a wide range of academic qualifications and professional categories. The CSIC employs 11,000 people, of which 3.000 are researchers. In total, they represent the 6% of Spain’s R&D workforce and generate approximately the 20% of the country’s production. Likewise, the CSIC collaborates with other juridical entities such as consortia and trading companies.

For more information on job opportunities at CSIC, please check our Nature Careers Employer Profile.

1 May 2020 - 1 April 2021

Region: Global
Subject/journal group: All

The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) published between 1 May 2020 - 1 April 2021 which are tracked by the Nature Index.

Hover over the donut graph to view the FC output for each subject. Below, the same research outputs are grouped by subject. Click on the subject to drill-down into a list of articles organized by journal, and then by title.

Note: Articles may be assigned to more than one subject area.

Count	Share
1283	227.62

Outputs by subject (Share)

Subject	Count	Share
Physical Sciences	625	99.32
ACS Nano	25	4.83
Advanced Functional Materials	13	4.15
Advanced Materials	9	0.86
Applied Physics Letters	12	4.47
Astronomy & Astrophysics	32	12.08
European Physical Journal C	74	11.10
Journal of High Energy Physics	172	22.46
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters	12	0.82
Nano Letters	19	4.04
Nature	11	0.20
Nature Communications	40	8.38
Nature Materials	2	0.50
Nature Nanotechnology	3	0.23
Nature Photonics	2	0.08
Nature Physics	1	0.04
Physical Review A	3	0.40
Physical Review B	14	3.76
Physical Review D	9	1.02
Physical Review Letters	90	11.87
Physical Review X	4	0.73
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America	6	0.67
Science	9	0.79
Science Advances	10	0.64
The Astrophysical Journal Letters	53	5.18
Earth & Environmental Sciences	146	27.45
Life Sciences	368	60.62
Chemistry	297	62.59

Highlight of the month

Prion-like protein forms fibrils in solution

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An aggregate-forming protein implicated in various neurodegenerative diseases forms fibrils in solution, suggesting it has a natural tendency to arrange into fibrils over a wide range of conditions.

Many neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, involve aggregates such as fibrils formed by misfolded proteins known as prion-like proteins. These proteins can confer their abnormal structure to adjacent proteins, resulting in the spread of aggregates in the brain.

Now, a team led by scientists from the Spanish National Research Council has found that one such prion-like protein called TDP-43 forms droplets when put in a solution of pH 4. They also observed visual evidence for the formation of fibrils at the surfaces of these droplets but not in their interiors.

Since these observations were made in the absence of salts or RNAs, they suggest that TDP-43 can form aggregates over a wide range of conditions without any external inducement.

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