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IRB Barcelona strengthens its ties with industry through participation in BioSpain
Raquel Alex Wedding
Community
Alex and Raquel celebrate their wedding with a donation to research
34 researchers have been awarded in the 2016 edition. Today, all the attendees at the ceremony in the AECC institutional act held in Barcelona (Picture: AECC)
Institutional
The AECC supports cancer research at IRB Barcelona
Organisation of the tracheal systems in Drosophila (A) and Tribolium (B)
Scientific - Published in Development
Gene regulation, evolution and the exploitation of new habitats
Institutional
Joan Guinovart named Doctor Honoris Causa by the Andrés Bello National University of Chile
Joan J. Guinovart, director of the IRB Barcelona, Francisco Chavarri from Eppendorf, awardee David Vilchez and Ernest Giralt, member of the jury, in the presentation of the first Alumni of Excellence Award today (L.T. Barone, IRB Barcelona)
Institutional
IRB Barcelona presents the “Alumni of Excellence Award” to David Vilchez
Beta amyloid protein and AD are strongly linked but the role of this protein in this disease remains elusive. Hippocampus of transgenic mice overexpressing amyloid beta. In blue, neuronal nuclei. In green, beta amyloid plaques (E.Verdaguer/S.Brox)
Scientific - Published in PNAS
New strategy to obtain a specific type of amyloid-beta aggregate that may underlie neuronal death in Alzheimer’s disease
Depicted above, (+)-ryanodol is a derivate of a natural compound with intracellular calcium-regulating capacity
Scientific - Published in Science
Building molecular complexity from scratch
Eadweard Muybridge's pictures of a galloping horse enabled detailed analysis of animals and humans in motion. Today's protein research is faced with a similar situation when trying to understand how proteins move. (L. Orellana)
Scientific - Published in Nature Communications
A minimalist theory to predict protein movements

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