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LLuís Ribas, ICREA researcher and co-organizer of the XXIII Barcelona Biomed Conference, explains to Diario Médico the central role of protein synthesis and its relation with many diseases. Ribas explains that there is evidence of errors in gene translation in pathologies such as ELA and Charcot-Marie Tooth, but these are not the only diseases involving such errors.
Related news:
28 November 2013
From Monday 2 till Wednesday 4 December, the “Institut d’Estudis Catalans” will be hosting the conference “Gene translation: fidelity and quality control”, organized by IRB Barcelona and the BBVA Foundation.
Read the news in Diario Médico (PDF in Spanish)
About IRB Barcelona
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).
