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Flies with colon cancer help to unravel the genetic keys to disease in humans

Posted by , on 8 October 2014

Researchers generate for the first time Drosophila melanogaster with intestinal cancer and reveal key genetic factors behind human colon cancer. The scientists identify a human gene that favours the proliferation ...

Researchers identify a key molecule in flies that adjusts energy use under starvation conditions

Posted by , on 24 July 2014

Marco Milán leads the Development and Growth Control Laboratory (Battista/Minocri, IRB Barcelona)  The Phd student Lara Barrio worked on the role of p53 in metabolism (Battista/Minocri, IRB Barcelona)   Scientists ...

A key component of cell division comes to light

Posted by , on 30 June 2014

Jens Lüders leads the Microtubule Organization laboratory (Photo: Battista/Minocri, IRB Barcelona)  “la Caixa” PhD student Nicolas Lecland is the first author of the study published in Nature Cell Biology (Photo: ...

The colon has a safety mechanism that restricts tumour formation

Posted by , on 23 June 2014

When adenomas appear in the colon, the same cells of the tissue produce a molecule that neutralizes its progression. Adenomas, which are highly prevalent in the population, provide the substrate ...

Researchers identify a new suppressor of breast metastasis to the lung

Posted by , on 27 May 2014

The research headed by Roger Gomis at IRB Barcelona, with the collaboration of Joan Massagué, describes that the loss of the suppressor RARRES3 promotes the colonization of breast cancer cells ...