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The Catalan company Inbiomotion secures 2,2 million euros of funding
GEMC1 is required for the generation of multiciliated cells. Images of mouse tracheas. The cilia (yellow) are clearly evident in the wild-type mice and absent in mice with no GEMC1. (Berta Terré, IRB Barcelona)
Scientific - Defects in multiciliated cells lead to ciliopathies
Discovery of a gene associated with a set of poorly understood rare diseases
Institutional
IRB Barcelona’s “Meet Our Scientists” video series brings biomedicine closer to society
Innovation
Inbiomotion receives funding through the EU's Horizon 2020 programme
Image of the larval tracheal main tube, stained in white to mark the chitinous ECM and in red to mark the cell-cell junctions
Scientific - Published in eLife
Identification of a mechanism by which cells interact with their milieu
The physician Juan Miguel Cejalvo is doing his PhD within the first edition of the PhD4MD programme (image: G. Battista, IRB Barcelona)
Institutional
The second edition of a predoctoral programme for physicians enhances different facets of research
Innovation
Roger Gomis: "You have to talk to those who have embarked on entrepreneurship in order to avoid making mistakes"
Innovation
BIST and ESADE launch “From Science to Business” course
In the picture, precursor cells of fly wing tissue, labelled for various proteins. This fly model has been used to perform experiments addressing the relationship between chromosome instability, aneuploidy, and tumorigenesis (Lara Barrio, IRB Barcelona)
Scientific - Published in Developmental Cell
Scientists shed light on how cells with an incorrect number of chromosomes lead to tumour development

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