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IRB Barcelona will host students for a research project on the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster).
Institutional
100 young students set to experience the Barcelona International Youth Science Challenge (BIYSC)
Glycogen (black particles) accumulates in large amounts in the muscle due to the absence of the protein glycogenin (Giorgia Testoni, IRB Barcelona)
Scientific - Published in Cell Metabolism
Excess muscle glycogen in mice impairs endurance exercise performance
The top and bottom of the image show how the Dpp concentration gradient affects the organisation of the wing structure of Drosophila melanogaster. In the centre, in the absence of Dpp, the wing does not grow. Image: Lara Barrio.
Scientific - Published in eLife
The Drosophila fly brings to light the role of morphogens in limb growth
BIST Board of Trustees meeting, today in Barcelona. Image: BIST.
Institutional
Gabriel M. Silberman appointed new General Director of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology
IRB Barcelona's Innovation team strengthens ties with industry.
Innovation
IRB Barcelona presents its technology and capacities at the 2017 BIO International Convention
Núria López-Bigas, head of the Biomedical Genomics Lab at IRB Barcelona
Institutional
Núria López-Bigas, elected EMBO Member
Salvador Aznar Benitah leads the Stem Cells and Cancer laboratory at IRB Barcelona
Institutional
Salvador Aznar Benitah winner of the National Research Prize of the Fundación Caja Rural de Soria
Eduard Batlle, head of the Colorectal Cancer laboratory at IRB Barcelona
Institutional
Eduard Batlle receives the XI Francisco Cobos Foundation Prize
Fluorescence microscopy image of the hypothalamus arcuate nucleus with POMC neurons in green (Image: Alicia G Gómez-Valadés).
Scientific - Published in Cell Metabolism
A small group of neurons modulates the amount of insulin that the pancreas must produce

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