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Why is it so bad? Which everyday products contain palm oil? Are there alternatives? The digital newspaper “Público.es” devotes an article to health and environmental impact of palm oil. Including a reference to the research on the relationship between fat and metastasis performed by Salvador Aznar Benitah and Gloria Pascual at IRB Barcelona.
In the study, published in Nature, the researchers reveal that, in mice, the human oral cancer cells that are most likely to migrate from primary tumors are marked by the surface protein CD36—a scavenger receptor that binds fatty acids.
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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).
