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Immunofluorescence staining for mammary epithelium (red), highlighting the luminal lineage (green), showing aberrant mammary branching upon perturbed chromatin accessibility.
Scientific - Published in Cell Stem Cell
The importance of DNA compaction in tissue formation
Community
Meet Alejo Rodríguez-Fraticelli, new Group Leader at IRB Barcelona
The reference yeast genetic network stands strong in the face of environmental insults with the most of the wiring remaining in place in across various conditions (Michael Costanzo, Conelly Centre)
Scientific - Published in Science
Cells are more resilient to environmental changes than previously thought
Innovation
IRB Barcelona launches a scientific collaboration with Galapagos to identify and validate senolytic drug targets in inflammation and fibrosis
Lafora bodies in brain sections (hippocampus). Bodies that accumulate in the disease disappear when the ability of astrocytes to produce glycogen is removed.
Scientific - Published in Brain
Scientists at IRB Barcelona discover the cause of neurodegeneration in Lafora disease
Outreach
“The Garden of Earthly Delights” by Anna Rierola
Organoids
Institutional
IRB Barcelona acquires a cutting-edge microscope thanks to the support of the BBVA Foundation
Landscape of synthetic lethal genes upon APOBEC activation in lung cancer cells.
Scientific - Published in PLOS Biology
A potential target to treat lung cancer identified
Family of structural conformers in solution determined by NMR (above). Detail of the key contacts between amino acids (in yellow) that define the characteristics of the active analogue.
Scientific - Published in Nature Communications
Towards a new treatment for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis

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