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The Turkish media Aydinlik has published an article about the possibility of using poisons as medicine. The article includes a reference to the research on the use of bee venom as a strategy to selectively eliminate cancer cells, led by Ernest Giralt, leader of the Laboratory of Design, Synthesis and Structure of Peptides and Proteins of IRB Barcelona.
Link to Aydinlik
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The Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) pursues a society free of disease. To this end, it conducts multidisciplinary research of excellence to cure cancer and other diseases linked to ageing. It establishes technology transfer agreements with the pharmaceutical industry and major hospitals to bring research results closer to society, and organises a range of science outreach activities to engage the public in an open dialogue. IRB Barcelona is an international centre that hosts 400 researchers and more than 30 nationalities. Recognised as a Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence since 2011, IRB Barcelona is a CERCA centre and member of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST).
