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Model organisms

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

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

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