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Various media report on the study headed by ICREA Professor Marco Milán, leader of the Development and Growth Control Lab at IRB Barcelona. The study discloses a new signal that participates in the specification and growth of fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) wings.
Published in Nature Communications, this work paves the way to research into the function of this pathway in vertebrate development and its possible involvement in human congenital diseases.
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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).
