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A 20-minute interview with Roger Gomis about cancer's sleeping cells, broadcast on Onda Cero's science and technology programme, Partiendo de Cero. The IRB and ICREA expert on breast cancer metastasis explains the current state of research on tumour cells that are able to survive surgery and chemotherapy and reproduce themselves in the form of metastasis.
At IRB, several research groups are trying to understand the mechanisms behind the latency of these sleeping cells in order to come up with treatments to fight them.
Listen to the interview in the website Partiendo de Cero - From minute 7:47 to minute 27:30.
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The Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) pursues a society free of disease. To this end, it conducts multidisciplinary research of excellence to cure cancer and other diseases linked to ageing. It establishes technology transfer agreements with the pharmaceutical industry and major hospitals to bring research results closer to society, and organises a range of science outreach activities to engage the public in an open dialogue. IRB Barcelona is an international centre that hosts 400 researchers and more than 30 nationalities. Recognised as a Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence since 2011, IRB Barcelona is a CERCA centre and member of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST).
