'El Balcó', a programme on Cadena SER radio, interviews Manuel Serrano, group leader of the Cellular Plasticity and Disease laboratory at IRB Barcelona. During the interview, the ICREA researcher explains what his goals are in regenerative medicine.
"Regenerative medicine seeks to generate new cells. For example, in diabetes, the pancreas lacks cells that produce insulin. What we are trying to do is to generate cellular plasticity in the cells of the pancreas so that they are able to generate cells that produce insulin," explains Manuel Serrano.
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“Society is interested in research and I would encourage other scientists to get involved in public outreach activities, it’s good for motivation!”
The newspaper El País has published an article on the pros and cons of intermittent fasting. The article refers to two kinds of fasting, namely the 5:2 fast, on which you can eat with no calorie restriction for five days and on the other two days no solids are allowed, and the 18:6 fast, which proposes that all the meals of the day are eaten within 6 hours, while the remaining 18 are devoted to fasting.
The weekly magazine El 3 de vuit interviews Joan Massagué, chair of the External Advisory Board at IRB Barcelona and cancer researcher on the occasion of the cancer conference "La Bisbal Barcelona New York" (with no commas, he stresses) at the Centre Municipal de Cultura (CMC) in La Bisbal del Penedès, which had a full audience. "I am pleased to see basic research bringing about solutions and treatments that benefit patients," says the cancer and metastasis expert during the interview.
