Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)

Team finds general mechanism that accelerates tumor development

ICREA professor Raúl Méndez publishes a study in Nature describing how the CPBE1 protein "takes the brakes off" the production of proteins associated with the cell switch from being healthy to tumorous. ...

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Researchers create a fly to study how a normal cell turns cancerous

Scientists at IRB Barcelona present a model to demonstrate the correlation between genomic instability and cancer.

Cancer created Nov 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover key process that allows colon cancer to metastasize

A team of 17 researchers, led by scientists Eduard Batlle and Elena Sancho in the Colorectal Cancer Laboratory at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), have determined that the ability ...

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Researchers describe new molecular interactions behind the inhibition of TGF beta-signaling

(Phys.org)—Researchers headed by Maria Macias an ICREA researcher at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and Joan Massagué, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Memorial ...

Medical research created Aug 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers uncover new clues about the origin of cancer

A study by Travis H. Stracker, researcher at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), in collaboration with scientists at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York, reveals ...

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Discovery of a new family of key mitochondrial proteins for the function and viability of the brain

A team headed by Eduardo Soriano at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) has published a study in Nature Communications describing a new family of six genes whose function regulates the mo ...

Medical research created May 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0