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"El Periódico de Catalunya" has talked with Miquel Coll, IRB Barcelona researcher and coordinator of the Structural and Computational Biology Programme at the institute, about the use of the Alba Synchrotron. Located in Cerdanyola del Vallès, close to Barcelona, Alba is one of the largest scientific installations in Spain. Miquel Coll contributed to the design of the beamline XALOC and uses the capacity of synchrotron light to study proteins that belong to the cytomegalovirus, a virus with DNA, and to unravel the machinery that allows it to enter cells and infect them.
Read the article in "El Periódico de Catalunya" (PDF in Spanish, PDF in Catalan)
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About IRB Barcelona
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).
