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Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN) devotes a news item to the recent study by IRB Barcelona scientists Xavier Salvatella and Modesto Orozco.
Published in Nature Communications, the study reports the team's discovery that the motions of various parts of proteins, although physically far apart, are correlated. Such findings hint at another way to think about drug development.
Read the news in GEN website
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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).
