26 November 2013 07:03 PM

MSKCC's website announcing Massagué's appointment (by Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre)

Two Catalans to lead New York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre

Doctor Joan Massagué has been appointed Scientific Director of the Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York , the world’s leading cancer research centre, which is part of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre. The Catalan...

Society Highlights

30 January 2013 10:17 PM

The website of the Catalan Institute of Nanotecnology (by Institut Català de Nanotecnologia / ACN)

Catalan centres are at the core of the billion-euro graphene and human brain research projects funded by the European Commission

Through its FET-Flagship programme, the European Commission is allocating €1 billion to each of the two main research projects in Europe. The first one is a project to explore the properties of graphene, a new material deriving from graphite...

Society

12 November 2012 11:25 PM

A microscopy image of growing colon cancer cells surrounded by stroma cells (by E. Batlle lab, IRB, Alexandre Calon)

The key process behind the metastasis of colon cancer is discovered by Catalan scientists

Scientists from the Colorectal Cancer Laboratory at the Barcelona Institute of Biomedical Research (IRB) have discovered the essential process that allows colon cancer cells to metastasise. They have concluded that tumour cells need to form...