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Model organisms

Abeoforma whisleri is a single-celled marine protist important in scientific research to understand the origins of animals. A. whisleri cells were transformed with plasmid DNA encoding a fluorescence protein to label the A. whisleri nuclei in green, enabling an experimental model systems team to better study the life cycle of this organism. | Picture by Sebastian. R Najle and Elena Casacuberta.
27.04.2020

Researchers develop a set of genetic tools to study the origin of animals

Protein aggregates that appear in Schizosaccharomyces pombe yeast cells exposed to high temperatures. | Picture by Margarita Cabrera.
02.03.2020

Scientists identify the main strategy of cells to deal with the accumulation of misfolded proteins

The group at IMIM have discovered a key piece to treat metastatic, chemotherapy resistant tumours. Photo by Ryoji Iwata on Unsplash.
01.10.2019

A key piece discovered that would allow treating the most aggressive cancers

12.09.2019

Mechanics and biology, together to shape the brain

Immunostaing of a mouse limb-bud. Cartilage-like cells are labbeled in green, endothelial cells in pink and nuclei in blue. Image from Heura Cardona and Montserrat Coll.
05.08.2019

EMBL Barcelona hosts the Limb Development and Regeneration Meeting

22.07.2019

New butterfly species with a pattern “invisible” to the human eye

David Martin and Xavier Franch, researchers at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE).
25.06.2019

“We have redefined the process of metamorphosis”

For the first time it has been seen that epigenetic changes in the offspring of mice that have consumed alcohol in 'binge' are maintained in the adult stage. Photo by Eeshan Garg to Unsplash.
20.06.2019

Alcohol consumption during pregnancy causes epigenetic changes to the fetus

Manuel Pastor, principal investigator at the pharmacoinformatics group at GRIB.
21.03.2019

Manuel Pastor: “We have created one of the world’s largest toxicology database”

A debate on the use of animals for biomedical experimentation. Photo by Biocat-Raimon Solá-PRBB
22.02.2019

Debate on animal experimentation

Vikas Trivedi group at EMBL-Barcelona, doing research on bioengineering, organoids and developmental biology
07.02.2019

“To understand how cells form embryos, we build embryos”

The research group Morphogenesis and signaling in sensory systems consists of four PhD students and two technicians.
08.01.2019

Unravelling the mysteries of ear formation

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