The radio programme of RNE Laboratorio de Jal has referred to the study of Miquel Coll’s group on the resistance of Staphylococcus aureus to antibiotics. This lethal bacterium has a mechanism by which antibiotic resistance genes are transferred.
Thanks to the resolution of a three-dimensional structure of the complex formed by relaxase with a fragment of the plasmid DNA, the researchers have identified an amino acid as a pivotal element of the transfer.
Link to RNE
The newspaper Regió7 has interviewed Nuria López-Bigas, head of the Biomedical Genomics Lab at IRB Barcelona, about her work in computational biology. In this interview, she talks about how she reads millions of DNA data from cancer tumours to establish guidelines to explain the behaviour of diseased cells and identify strategies through which to cure them.
The new study analyses the dysfunction of basolateral transporters through a transgenic animal model.
This study is led by Manuel Palacín from IRB Barcelona and Virgínia Nunes from IDIBELL.
Xavier Salvatella, ICREA researcher at IRB Barcelona, proposes a new approach to combat prostate tumour cells that have become unresponsive to the treatments currently available.
The incidence of prostate cancer is increasing worldwide. In the US and Europe, it is one of the most common tumours and among the main causes of death by cancer.
