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Teachers and scientists working together.
Outreach
Secondary school teachers and IRB Barcelona scientists are on to “the fly”
IRB Barcelona celebrates 10 years of ERC.
Institutional
The ERC—10 years promoting cutting-edge research at IRB Barcelona
Left, atomic structure of RNA polymerase I in its inactive form - homodimer; Right, atomic structure of RNA polymerase I in its active form -heterodimer with Rrn3-. (Carlos Fernández-Tornero CIB/CSIC and Oriol Gallego, IRB Barcelona)
Scientific - Published in eLife
Scientists discover how the cell stops growing in response to lack of nutrients
The image shows tumour cells infected by the virus, which expresses a fluorescent protein. Over the days (in the image fifth day), the virus multiplies, generating new virions that infect more cancer cells (IDIBAPS, IRB Barcelona)
Innovation - Published Nature Communications
Researchers create viruses to selectively attack tumor cells
Scheme of therapeutic concept designed by IRB Barcelona. The protein frataxina binds to peptide shuttle (blue), allowing the protein to cross the blood brain barrier and reach the brain (IRB Barcelona)
Innovation - Associations of patients channel 80,000 € of their donations in a new 18-month project at the IRB
New research front to tackle Friedreich’s Ataxia
After chemotherapy, quiescent cells change their behaviour​, become active​ ​and regenerate all cell types in the intestine (in green). (F Barriga, IRB Barcelona)
Scientific - Published in Cell Stem Cell
The intestine has a reservoir of stem cells that are resistant to chemotherapy
Marc Liesa, 2017 IRB Barcelona Alumni of Excellence Award.
Institutional
The 2017 IRB Barcelona Alumni of Excellence Award goes to Marc Liesa
LegoLish-Mot, the second prototype of LEGOLish. Image: Julien Colombelli, Core Facility Manager of the Advanced Digital Microscopy Laboratory at IRB Barcelona.
Outreach
The Youth Mobile Festival (YoMo) Barcelona hosts a cutting-edge fluorescence microscope built with Lego blocks
The fundraising campaign called "Future" (#IRBfutur) was launched at the end of 2016 to raise public awareness of the role that biomedical research plays in advancing medicine (L.T. Barone, IRB Barcelona)
Institutional
Donations give rise to a new IRB Barcelona PhD fellowship

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