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The magazine Science News has published an article on the technique developed by Hans Clevers, from the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht (the Netherlands), which allows the development of mini-intestines from colon cancer tissue samples. In the article, Eduard Batlle, ICREA researcher and group leader of the Colorectal Cancer Laboratory at IRB Barcelona, welcomes this technique, which has recently been used by this laboratory to study the relationship between the alterations caused by colon cancer in healthy cells surrounding tissues (called stroma) and the probability of developing subsequent metastasis. These results were published in Nature Genetics.
Read the article in Science News
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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).
