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Skin of a young mouse. The image shows a cross section of the skin with the fibroblasts indicated in green. The thickness of the dermis and the density of fibroblasts is much greater in young skin than in aged skin– cell nuclei, in blue (M Salzer, IRB Bar
Scientific
Skin ages when the main cells in the dermis lose their identity and function
Media mentions
What do the people from around the world living in Barcelona think about the city
Tip of a Drosophila testis. In red, BigH1 expressed in germ stem cells and spermatocytes. In blue, the cell nuclei. Image: Albert Carbonell, IRB Barcelona.
Scientific
BigH1—the key histone for male fertility
After chemotherapy, quiescent cells change their behaviour​, become active​ ​and regenerate all cell types in the intestine (in green). (F Barriga, IRB Barcelona)
Scientific
The intestine has a reservoir of stem cells that are resistant to chemotherapy
Media mentions
“It's our turn to support the recruitment of women in research centres”, Camille Stephan-Otto Attolini
Biomathematician Camille Stephan-Otto Attolini heads the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Unit
Institutional
Stephan-Otto: “In the near future, there’s going to be one biostatistician in every biomedical laboratory”
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Innovation
IRB Barcelona participates in the Bioinformatics Barcelona (BIB) Association
Eduard Batlle heads a study published in Nature Cell Biology on Sunday 22 June (Photo: Gavin Whissell , IRB Barcelona)
Scientific
The colon has a safety mechanism that restricts tumour formation
Math4Life is a new programme to train biostatisticians
Institutional
IRB launches Maths4Life to train biostatisticians
Institutional
David Rossell: "Biostatistics is the radar in biomedicine: it detects what is relevant in an immense ocean of data"
Institutional
An international competition reaffirms the potential of bioinformatics in the diagnosis of disease
Institutional
NIH of the United States to finance a large-scale cancer genetics project undertaken by IRB Barcelona
Media mentions
Statistics serving biomedicine