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The 10th “Vi per Vida” (Wine for Life) will be held on Sunday 25 February in Calella. Image: "Vi per Vida"
Institutional
10th charity wine tasting in support of research into cancer and metastasis at IRB Barcelona
The overexpression of the gene Serpent in the Drosophila wing causes permanent overgrowth and it is sufficient to promote tumour development. Image: Kyra Campbell, IRB Barcelona
Innovation - Published in PLoS Genetics
Genes activated in metastasis also drive the first stages of tumour growth
Ernest Giralt
Institutional
Ernest Giralt: "There are many diseases caused by failures in the protein-protein interactions”
The image shows a metastatic colon tumour infiltrated by the immune system (brown) after combined treatment with the TGF-beta inhibitor and immunotherapy. (Author: Daniele Tauriello, IRB Barcelona)
Innovation - Published in Nature
IRB Barcelona paves the way to the use of immunotherapy to treat aggressive colon tumours and their metastasis
Institutional - The donation will be destined to boost research into cancer and metastasis
IRB Barcelona receives a bequest of 1.5 M €
Image shows the interaction between the MH1 domain of Smad4 in complex with the GGCGC site (Maria Macias, IRB Barcelona)
Scientific - Published in Nature Communications
Understanding the adaptability of Smads
PhD4MD is a training programme on research for medical doctors
Institutional
Fourth call of the PhD4MD biomedical research training programme for medical doctors
Nuclei of metastatic breast cancer cells showing the protein MSK1 in green (Author: Cristina Figueras-Puig, IRB Barcelona)
Scientific - Published in Nature Cell Biology
Researchers identify a protein that keeps metastatic breast cancer cells dormant
Manuel Serrano Lab
Scientific
The RPAP1 protein, essential for cell identity and viability

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