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Scheme of the intracellular processing of the 2shRNAs by the activity of Dicer enzyme, producing two independent fragments of shRNA, one against each target (M Terrazas, IRB Barcelona)
Innovation - Published in Chemical Communications
Advances made to combat cancer relapse
The primary school Montserrat and IRB Barcelona have worked in a three-year project with a long-term educational impact
Outreach
Greater use of the scientific method to enhance learning
The 2019 “Recerca en Directe” fair will be held from 6-9 March at the CosmoCaixa
Outreach
IRB Barcelona among the 12 research centres chosen to participate in the 2019 “Recerca en Directe” Fair
Institutional
Donate to the medicine of the future
Chinese researcher He Jiankui claims first gene-edited babies (image: AP)
Institutional
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

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