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The media outlets La Vanguardia and Informativos Telecinco echoed the work of Ana María Cuervo, a world expert in cellular cleaning and recycling, and invited speaker at the recent Barcelona BioMed Conference on “Mitochondrial Autophagy” organized by IRB Barcelona and the BBVA Foundation. The latest results of Cuervo’s group connect cell cleaning and aging. Manipulating cell cleaning processes directly in the liver cells of ageing mice, they found that their livers could clear away more defective proteins: “These mice were like 80-year-old people, but their livers were functioning as if they were 20.”
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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).
