IRB Barcelona News - Scientific

• 31 May 2010
  How are transport pathways controlled inside cells?

  A group of researchers discover a mechanism based on two proteins that regulate the microtubule network formation in embryonic cells.
  
  Microtubules are like internal cellular transport networks and are fundamental for processes such as the secretion of substances, and cell movement and morphology.

• 20 May 2010
  First ever high resolution observations of DNA unfolding

  This is a key process to understand gene activity and DNA replication, and to design drugs to modulate them in the future.

• 17 May 2010
  Start of Oncology Week in Barcelona

  The international conference “Towards personalized cancer medicine”, the XI Symposium of the “Fundació La Marató de TV3”, and the first “Talència Divulga” Award are held coordinately in Barcelona this week.

• 20 April 2010
  New data on the regulation of a protein that is altered in all cancers

  The group led by Marco Milán, researcher at IRB Barcelona, discovers that microRNAs control the levels of the oncoprotein Myc in Drosophila.

• 15 April 2010
  Centrosomes serve as a compass for the division of brain stem cells

  Researchers at IRB Barcelona discover a mechanism responsible for the orientation of asymmetric division of neuroblasts.

• 9 April 2010
  The protein Scarface establishes order in the Drosophila epithelium

  Researchers at IRB Barcelona discover a new component required for the structural maintenance of the epithelium.

• 8 April 2010
  New method to study key targets in Alzheimer’s disease and prostate cancer

  Researchers at IRB Barcelona refine the process to obtain “photographs” of highly dynamic proteins, an important step in drug design.

• 11 March 2010
  Opposing functions of a key molecule in the development of organisms

  The same molecule is also involved in cancer and studies of its activity may provide new clues for the design of effective therapies.

• 10 March 2010
  New alterations found in young adults with type 2 diabetes

  A genetic variation in mitochondria, the energy-producing machinery of cells, prevents young obese subjects with diabetes type 2 to respond to physical exercise.

• 8 February 2010
  A study reveals how respiratory tubes and capillaries form

  Scientists at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and CSIC report on the formation of the small-diameter respiratory tubes of the fly Drosophila, a process that resembles the development of the finest blood vessels, the capillaries, in mammals.