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Model organisms

The Ruprecht lab is a small group —one postdoctoral researcher, two PhD students, one Master’s student and a technician— all biologists, but it will grow soon.
25.09.2018

“Science must be multidisciplinary and international”

13.07.2017

Transparency in animal research at the PRBB

Oxidative Stress and Cell Cycle research group (DCEXS-UPF), co-leaded by Elena Hidalgo and José Ayté.
16.01.2017

“Oxidative stress and cell cycle control: two converging pathways”

C.elegans is a 1mm worm that shares 35% of genes with humans and is widely used in research as a model system. Photo by Adam Klosin, CRG.
14.09.2014

An elegant worm

The Nobel Prize Sydney Brenner during his speech at the PRBB Auditorium. Photo by Frederic Camallonga.
10.05.2014

Sydney Brenner: “I’m interested in the science of solving problems”

48h old zebrafish embryo displaying fluorescent sensory in neurons.
05.03.2014

Zebrafish, a transparent window to our biology

The use of animals, mostly rodents, is nowadays still esential for the development of new drugs to improve human health. Image by Rita Casas/PRBB. CC BY-NC-SA.
13.09.2013

Animals in biomedical research

07.06.2012

The lateral line of zebrafish

27.03.2011

Inner ear of a chicken embryo

The fruit fly was chosen to be the first multicellular organism to have its genome fully sequenced back in 2000 (Image by the Oregon State University at Flickr).
08.02.2011

Of flies and men

From egg to adult
18.07.2008

How an egg becomes a person

Group led by Fernando Giraldez (DCEXS-UPF) with Cristina Pujades and Berta Alsina
17.01.2008

Recipes for making organisms

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