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Neurons accumulate glycogen in small amounts, which is beneficial for them. Glycogen synthase (in green) and glycogen accumulation in red (Author: Isabel Sáez, IRB)
Scientific
Researchers reveal the dual role of brain glycogen
Patrick Aloy (right) and Roberto Mosca performed together with Arnaud Ceol the bioinformatics analysis (Author: J. Cosialls)
Scientific
A step closer to putting together the vital puzzle of the bacteria Escherichia coli
MareNostrum supercomputer facility at BSC (Image rights: BSC)
Institutional
Three Severo Ochoa Centres of Excellence join efforts in computational biology
Structure of the new substance bound to DNA (R.Boer, IRB)
Scientific
Scientists discover a new kind of DNA intercalator
Eduard Batlle leads the Colorectal Cancer Laboratory (Photo: Battista/Minocri, IRB)
Institutional
Eduard Batlle winner of the Pezcoller Foundation- EACR Cancer Research Award
Manuel Palacín is a world expert in heteromeric amino acid transporters (HATs). (Author: Battista/Minocri)
Scientific
First observation of a human HAT, key proteins in numerous pathologies
Arabidopsis thaliana is model with which to study the molecular biology of many plant traits (Wikimedia Commons))
Scientific
Scientists unveil a molecular mechanism that controls plant growth and development
The team of scientists that will address the Friedreich's Ataxia project (Photo: Luca T. Barone, IRB)
Institutional
International patient advocates partner to fund Spanish gene-therapy project to treat Friedreich's ataxia
Patrick Aloy leads the Structural Bioinformatics and Network Biology laboratory (Battista/Minocri, IRB)
Institutional
IRB receives 1.3 M€ from the European Research Council for investigation into Alzheimer's disease

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