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300 researchers to meet at CosmoCaixa to explore the frontiers of scientific knowledge -
The Montserrat School in Cornellà opens the 'Joan Guinovart' laboratory in the framework of the Tandem Schools project -
Connections between the cell cycle, centrosomes and cilia are gaining attention in biomedicine -
Research at IRB Barcelona receives a prize from the AECC
Noticias
18 Jun 2018
11 Jun 2018
Cilia are the oldest known cellular organelle, first described in 1675. Centrosomes were discovered two hundred years later, in 1883.
8 Jun 2018
The Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer (AECC) has given a prize to a study called Circadian- and UPR-dependent control of CPEB4 mediates a translational response to counteract hepatic steatos
Media mentions
19 Jun 2018
The Montserrat school in Cornellà brings science into the classroom
El Punt Avui & other media
El Punt Avui, Ara and El Mundo, among other media, have published an article about the closing ceremony of the Escuelas Tàndem (Tandem Schools) project. This initiative, run by the Catalunya La Pedrera Foundation, has applied science as a core theme to enhance the innovative activities in the Montserrat School in Cornellà with the collaboration of IRB Barcelona.
15 Jun 2018
Two studies show that CRISPR works better in cells more prone to mutations
El País-Materia
The newspaper El País has published an article about the implications of applying the CRISPR-Cas9 technique in human cells that could facilitate the appearance of tumours, according to two articles published in the journal Nature Medicine.
14 Jun 2018
La Vanguardia
The newspaper La Vanguardia has devoted an article to the two Spanish researchers who have become members of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) this year, namely the biologist Salvador Aznar Benitah, head of the Stem Cell and Cancer laboratory at IRB Barcelona, and the physicist Xavier Trepat, at IBEC.
Laura Nevola
Alumni - Research Associate
«Controlling a biological process from outside is the future of chemistry and opens up promising roads for advancements in pharmacological research.»
More info on this news here.
Felice Alessio Bava
IRB Barcelona Alumni member
«We suspected that CPEB1, a protein involved in regulating mRNA translation in the cytoplasm, might also be active in the nucleus and play a role in controlling pre-mRNA processing. We discovered that it affects the alternative generation in the mature mRNA of the 3'-UTR, regions where most of the elements regulating translation in time and space are located.»
More info about this news here.
Lara Barrio
Postdoctoral Fellow
“From our study in Drosophila flies we can deduce that it would be particularly interesting to address vertebrates and analyse the participation of p53 in diabetes and obesity”
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Laura Boulan
PhD Student
«I discovered that the bantam molecule drives the transition from larva to pupa, the phase analogous to human adolescence.»
More info about this news here.
Eduard Batlle
Group Leader
Group: Colorectal cancer laboratory
«We need to look at the soil, not at the seed. TGF-beta is the fertiliser that changes the earth in which the tumour seed grows.»
More info about this news here.
Jalaj Gupta
Postdoctoral Fellow
«Our study highlights the complexity of p38 functions, both in cancer and in the maintenance of normal tissues. It shows why an inhibitor of this molecule could effectively have undesirable side effects. But these do not exclude it from being a target against cancer.»
More on this news here.
Meritxell Teixidó
Research Associate
«98% of the potential therapeutic molecules against diseases of the central nervous system cannot cross the blood-brain barrier. We develop peptides with the capacity to open the doors of the barrier and act as shuttles when attached to a therapeutic molecule.»
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Tumour cells evade death through in extremis DNA repair
Cancer metastases slowly unveil their weaknesses
IRB Barcelona paves the way to the use of immunotherapy to treat aggressive colon tumours and their metastasis
Understanding the adaptability of Smads
Researchers identify a protein that keeps metastatic breast cancer cells dormant
Embryonic development inspires regenerative medicine
Internal mechanism found to be responsible for the limitless growth potential of epithelial tumours
Internal mechanism found to be responsible for the limitless growth potential of epithelial tumours
Ageing is exacerbated by alterations of stem cell circadian rhythm
Ageing is exacerbated by alterations of stem cell circadian rhythm
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