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Group leader Salvador Aznar Benitah and first author Gloria Pascual in the Stem Cells and Cancer lab at the IRB Barcelona (M. Minocri, IRB Barcelona)
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How can excess fat intake affect our body?
In August, IRB Barcelona scientists published two studies devoted to circadian rhythm, aging and diet in the journal Cell.
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Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded for insights into internal biological clock
Salvador Aznar Benitah leads the Stem Cells and Cancer laboratory at IRB Barcelona
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Fats that prevent cancer
An IRB Barcelona study inspires 9-year old kids to develop a project about eating habits
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Kids who change the world
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BIST and UPF launch the first Master of Multidisciplinary Research in Experimental Sciences
Image representing the effects of the circadian clock in ageing (Author: Iris Joval Granollers)
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The biological clock is not lost with age, but reprogrammed with new functions
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Aznar Benitah: “There is a correlation between dietary fat and the metastatic capacity of cancer”
DNA damage accumulation (in green) in old mice skin (Guiomar Solanas and Francisca Peixoto, IRB Barcelona)
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"Link between biological clock and ageing revealed"
Image representing the effects of the circadian clock in ageing (Author: Iris Joval Granollers)
Scientific
Ageing is exacerbated by alterations of stem cell circadian rhythm
Image: Quo.
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Salvador Aznar Benitah: "Eating certain fats stimulates metastasis"
Image: Worldwide Cancer Research.
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"New insight into how some cancers begin"
Salvador Aznar Benitah.
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The Fundación Científica Caja Rural de Soria awards Salvador Aznar Benitah
Salvador Aznar Benitah leads the Stem Cells and Cancer laboratory at IRB Barcelona
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Salvador Aznar Benitah winner of the National Research Prize of the Fundación Caja Rural de Soria
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"Reduce fats to fight metastasis"
Representative images of different subtypes of skin tumors (L. Rinaldi, IRB Barcelona)
Scientific
The loss of protein Dnmt3a increases the number of carcinogen-induced squamous tumours
Image: iStock.
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“Under suspicion: Palm oil could fuel cancer”
Copyright: Getty Images.
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Cancer by chance? Do not bet against yourself
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IRB Barcelona's European research into cancer
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Researcher Gloria Pascual on International Women's Day
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IRB Barcelona takes "Vanguardia de la Ciencia" podium
Joan J. Guinovart, IRB Barcelona
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Interview with Joan Guinovart and Salvador Aznar Benitah about IRB Barcelona’s research
Salvador Aznar Benitah, head of the IRB Barcelona group "Stem Cells and Cancer". (Photo: Battista-Minocri, IRB)
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Salvador Aznar Benitah's research, "one more step in understanding how cancer works"
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Everything you need to know about palm oil
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Palm oil, one of the most consumed fats
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Gloria Pascual, Fighting Cancer at IRB Barcelona
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IRB Barcelona researcher Salvador Aznar Benitah receives the 2016 "Premi Ciutat de Barcelona"
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"Dietary fat influences cancer", by Salvador Aznar-Benitah and Gloria Pascual
Salvador Aznar Benitah, Group Leader of the Stem Cell and Cancer Lab at IRB Barcelona.
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Salvador Aznar Benitah awarded the 2016 “Premi Ciutat de Barcelona”
Aznar Benitah receives the VI "Premio Nacional de Investigación en Cáncer 'Doctores Diz Pintado'" (from left to right) Eugenio Santo, Mª Ángeles Serrano, Salvador Aznar Benitah and Nicolás Rodríguez (USAL)
Innovation
Salvador Aznar Benitah receives the VI National 'Doctores Diz Pintado' Cancer Research Prize
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