COPE interviews Manuel Serrano
The radio programme La Tarde broadcasted by COPE has interviewed Manuel Serrano, ICREA researcher at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), about human aging. Serrano emphasizes that one of the basic aspects of aging is childhood health.
Massagué deciphers the origin of metastases
The newspaper La Vanguardia has published two articles about the most recent work done by Joan Massagué, Director of the Sloan Kettering Institute, co-founder of the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and current chair of its External Advisory Board. In a study published in the journal Nature Cancer, Massagué reveals the mechanism that gives rise to metastasis.
How can the development of cancer in a damaged liver be avoided?
The Preguntas Big Van section of La Vanguardia has published an article on a new joint project being done by Raúl Méndez, group leader at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), together with Mercedes Fernández, researchers at the Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas August Pi i Sunyer.
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.»
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Lara Barrio
Research Associate
“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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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.»
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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.»
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.»
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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.»
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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.»
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