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Giant Yellow Israeli scorpion. Image: Ester Inbar
Scientific - Published in Chemical Communications
Scorpion venom to shuttle drugs into the brain
Skin of a young mouse. The image shows a cross section of the skin with the fibroblasts indicated in green. The thickness of the dermis and the density of fibroblasts is much greater in young skin than in aged skin– cell nuclei, in blue (M Salzer, IRB Bar
Scientific - Published in Cell
Skin ages when the main cells in the dermis lose their identity and function
Roger Gomis, head of the Growth Control and Cancer Metastasis Lab
Institutional
IRB Barcelona researcher Roger Gomis receives an award for his work on cancer
Ernest Giralt receives the diploma at La Marató ceremony
Institutional
“La Marató” awards funds for a project aiming to design an alternative molecule for the treatment of infections
The DNA molecule, formed by a double helix, winds around histone molecules twice, thus forming nucleosomes. The pink regions indicate those enriched in Adenine/Thymine base pairs (Author: Iris Joval Granollers)
Scientific - Published in Cell
Researchers at IRB Barcelona explain the origin of the mysterious periodicity of the genome
Institutional - Acknowledgement of his 13 years as director
Full house for the event held in tribute to Joan Guinovart
Figure showing the binding of a nanobody derived from alpaca to the EGF protein. The scientists demonstrate the high affinity and selectivity of a family of nanobodies for EGF, target of interest for the treatment of cancer (S Guardiola, IRB Barcelona)
Scientific - Published in Angewandte Chemie
The immune system of the alpaca reveals a potential treatment for cancer
Drosophila epithelium subjected to chromosomal instability (CIN): cells start invading the neighbouring tissues. Magenta labels the nuclei of all the epithelium while green labels the membranes of cells subjected to CIN (L Barrio, IRB Barcelona)
Scientific - Published in Developmental Cell
A study using Drosophila sheds light on the metastatic behaviour of human tumours
Innovation
Chromosomal instability in tumours revealed to promote metastasis

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