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Researchers at the Harvard School of Medicine have discovered stem cells with the ability to form any type of lung cell. Today’s issue of the newspaper La Vanguardia reports on this study, published in the specialized publication The New England Journal of Medicine. During the writing of this article, the researchers sought the opinion of Eduard Batlle, ICREA professor at IRB Barcelona and an expert in stem cells and cancer. According to Batlle, stem cells “are helping us to understand the origin of some diseases, particularly some types of cancer, and in the future they will allow the development of new treatments”.
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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).
