Psychological wellbeing in adult adoptees: current age and developmental tasks.

Introduction: Studies about adult adoptees are normally focused on the differences in adjustment difficulties between them and non-adoptees. However, there has been less research about adoptees' positive and developmental adjustment in adulthood. The aim of this study is to test a model of the mediating role of adoptees' achievement of adulthood tasks in the relationship between current age and psychological wellbeing.

School Adjustment and Socio-Family Risk as Predictors of Adolescents' Peer Preference.

This work analyzes peer preferences at the beginning of adolescence. For this purpose, each adolescent's sociometric status was studied in their classroom group, and attempts were made to identify indicators of academic, personal, and socio-family adjustment related to that status. Participants were 831 adolescents studying 1st grade of Compulsory Secondary Education (CSE), in 31 classrooms from 10 schools.

Evaluation of the Spanish population coverage of a prospective HLA haplobank of induced pluripotent stem cells.

Background: iPSC (induced pluripotent stem cells) banks of iPSC lines with homozygous HLA (human leukocyte antigen) haplotypes (haplobanks) are proposed as an affordable and off-the-shelf approach to allogeneic transplantation of iPSC derived cell therapies. Cord blood banks offer an extensive source of HLA-typed cells suitable for reprogramming to iPSC. Several initiatives worldwide have been undertaken to create national and international iPSC haplobanks that match a significant part of a population.

[Effects of drug use and anxiety on premature ejaculation in a sample of Spanish drug addicts].

Introduction: Premature ejaculation may be due to many factors and one of them may be drug use.

Aims: The main objective of this study is to show how drug abuse affects the ejaculatory response, keeping in mind the different substances consumed, the level of anxiety and the period of withdrawal.

Method: Two samples were used, one for men who were addicted to drugs (N=925) and one of non-consumers (N=82).

Trends in cord blood banking.

Background: Umbilical cord blood (UCB) is a source of hematopoietic precursor cells for transplantation. The creation of UCB banks in 1992 led to the possibility of storing units of UCB for unrelated transplants. The distribution of cell contents in historical inventories is not homogenous and many units are not, therefore, suitable for adults.