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Article by ARA newspaper on crystallography, a technique that reveals the 3D structure of organic material, such as proteins. The journalist Mònica L. Ferrado has consulted IRB researcher Miquel Coll, an international authority on this technique and on research into nucleic acids and proteins.
Read the article in ARA (PDF in Catalan)
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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).
