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Àngels López

IBEC researchers highlight the role of women in science in different media

Coinciding with the celebration of 11 February, the Day of Girls and Women in Science, Nuria Montserrat is one of the three protagonists of the Constantes y Vitales campaign entitled “Chicas, la Ciencia nos necesita” (Girls, Science Needs Us) on La Sexta. This campaign will aim to build female role models to help break gender … Read more

Cancer cells move to rigid environments like droplets 

Researchers from the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and the University of Barcelona (UB) uncovered a similarity between liquid droplets and cell groups, revealing that surface tension helps cells to migrate towards stiffer environments. This new insight could help us to understand how cancer cells disseminate across tissues with different rigidity in our body.   Scientists … Read more

A mechanism for recruiting cancer-associated fibroblasts in the most common lung cancer has been discovered

A team of experts led by IBEC research associate Jordi Alacaraz have discovered how lung adenocarcinoma recruits cancer-associated fibroblasts, and the impact this phenomenon has on the spread of the tumour and the generation of metastases. The results have shown that these cells have a migratory advantage in early stages of the tumour. In the … Read more

Researchers find recruitment mechanism for cancer-associated fibroblasts in the most common lung cancer

A team of experts led by Jordi Alcaraz, professor at the UB and associated researcher at IBEC, found a mechanism of recruitment for tumour-associated cells (cancer-associated fibroblasts or CAFs) which are essential to lung adenocarcinoma, the most frequent type of cancer. This finding is very relevant since the cancer-associated cells contribute to all the phases of tumour … Read more