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PocketVec: una revolución en la detección de puntos de interés farmacológico en el proteoma humano
Scientific
A new computational tool identifies more than 32,000 points of pharmacological interest in the human proteome
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Paisaje de contactos moleculares: Cómo el coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 se comunica con las células humanas - BioTech
Scientific
Landscape of molecular contacts: How the corona virus SARS-CoV-2 communicates with human cells
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Crean una herramienta computacional que almacena y relaciona datos biológicos - La Vanguardia
Scientific
The Bioteque: a computational tool to harmonise biological knowledge
Scientific
Four commonly used medications reverse Alzheimer's disease in mice
Detail of the compound collections (Nature Communications)
Scientific
Deep machine learning completes information about the bioactivity of one million molecules
The reference yeast genetic network stands strong in the face of environmental insults with the most of the wiring remaining in place in across various conditions (Michael Costanzo, Conelly Centre)
Scientific
Cells are more resilient to environmental changes than previously thought
Scientific
The co-occurrence of cancer driver genes, key to precision medicine
Scientific
An open-access tool to accelerate drug discovery
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Around 30 centres and hospitals in Catalonia are studying promising treatments of COVID-19
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IRB Barcelona collaborates with Amazon on the development of a drug search tool
Scientific
IRB Barcelona collaborates with Amazon in the development of a computational tool to speed up the search for drugs against COVID-19
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Patrick Aloy is interviewed on La Sexta Columna: "Without computational analysis, molecular biology and molecular pathology wouldn’t exist. We provide a fundamental key piece".
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Coronavirus.- The European Commission funds 8 Spanish projects devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of Covid19
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Scientists show that cancer cells proliferate less when their internal pH is acidified
Miquel Duran-Frigola, Associate Researcher at the Structural Bioinformatics and Network Biology lab, IRB Barcelona
Innovation
Acidic pH: the weakness of cancer cells
Guiomar Solanas, research associate at the Stem Cells and Cancer Lab
Institutional
Three scientists from IRB Barcelona receive BIST’s "To the Mothers of Science" fellowship
Patrick Aloy, Group Leader of the Structural Bioinformatics and Network Biology Lab
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Patrick Aloy: Network biology
Science Festival 2016, Parc de la Ciutadella.
Institutional
Science Festival 2017: A weekend for science in Barcelona
Patrick Aloy, Group Leader of the Structural Bioinformatics and Network Biology Lab
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Harnessing bioinformatics to find new drug combinations for breast cancer
Innovation
Patrick Aloy "We must focus on halting the progression of Alzheimer’s disease"
Patrick Aloy, ICREA Research Professor & ERC Consolidator Grant.
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New drug combinations to fight breast cancer
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10 New drug combinations to treat breast cancer
Despite the expanding repertoire of new anti-cancer agents, treatment failure remains a major challenge in the management of most advanced solid tumours, including breast cancer.
Innovation
Bioinformatics brings to light new combinations of drugs to fight breast cancer
Patrick Aloy, ICREA Research Professor & ERC Consolidator Grant.
Institutional
Patrick Aloy: “The whole is more than the sum of its parts”
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"Bad genes aren't always bad news"
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10 lines of investigation to light up Researchers’ Night
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Can science be done without animal testing?