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Chinese researcher He Jiankui claims first gene-edited babies (image: AP)
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OPINION: Gene editing of human embryos. Red lines
A invasive front of highly aggressive tumour cells (in green). Confocal microscopy image. Alexandra Avgustinova, IRB Barcelona.
Scientific - Published in Nature Cell Biology
A study suggests that epigenetic treatments could trigger the development of aggressive tumours
Fran Supek, head of the Genome Data Science group
Institutional
Fran Supek, new ICREA researcher at IRB Barcelona
Giant Yellow Israeli scorpion. Image: Ester Inbar
Scientific - Published in Chemical Communications
Scorpion venom to shuttle drugs into the brain
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 - Published in Cell
Skin ages when the main cells in the dermis lose their identity and function
Roger Gomis, head of the Growth Control and Cancer Metastasis Lab
Institutional
IRB Barcelona researcher Roger Gomis receives an award for his work on cancer
Ernest Giralt receives the diploma at La Marató ceremony
Institutional
“La Marató” awards funds for a project aiming to design an alternative molecule for the treatment of infections
The DNA molecule, formed by a double helix, winds around histone molecules twice, thus forming nucleosomes. The pink regions indicate those enriched in Adenine/Thymine base pairs (Author: Iris Joval Granollers)
Scientific - Published in Cell
Researchers at IRB Barcelona explain the origin of the mysterious periodicity of the genome

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