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Cancer

UPF-CRG Barcelona - iGEM 2018 Team Young researchers engineer a prospective life-saving bacterium – a possible metastatasis prevention probiotic 26.07.2019

A group of students take their baptism in research: they develop a proof of concept for a probiotic to prevent cancer metastasisThe young researchers engineer a bacteria to take up and consume long-chain fatty acids, a major risk factor for metastasisFurther development could eventually have this idea give the leap into a real application saving […]

Keratinocytes Treatment of metastatic breast cancer 09.02.2018

A study published in the Lancet Oncology by an international team led by Prof Rob E. Coleman (University of Sheffield) and Prof Roger R. Gomis (IRB Barcelona) identifies the effect of MAF amplification on the outcome of treatment with adjuvant zoledronic acid in early breast cancer. This new knowledge may be key to the early […]

T-ALL mouse model with inactivated CIC/CAPICUA (staining with CD3 antibodies highlighting aberrant T cells)./ CNIO ‘Capicua’ gene plays a key role in one of the most common types of childhood tumours, T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia 06.02.2018

Researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) have discovered a genetic alteration that is directly involved in at least 10% of cases of one of the most common cancers in children, T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. In a paper published in Genes and Development, the scientists explain how the mice in which a specific […]

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Maria Jose Sanz (BC3)
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